Protect your clothing?

When I sometimes (a lot) looks at videos with other Equipment managers, mostly from USA and Canada I always wonder why they use an apron when sharpening skates. You don´t get so dirty. Just keep your hands away from the clothes and you will be OK.

But today, since our sharpener are at service and I find it rather boring to walk back and forth to the janitors to sharpen skates, I wen´t to storage and took out the teams old manual sharpener.

My plan was to see if I could adjust it and get it to work.

Initial adjustments wen´t well and I wen´t on dressing the wheel for a suitable hollow to make a test run.

After that I looked down at my chest and realized that all of the grit I took of the wheel ended up on my chest. My skate suit jacket needed a wash.

And if you sharpen skates every day, and you do, you have to wash whatever you have on. Every day.

So now I need my own apron.

No pictures from this since I don´t have an apron. So here is one from when they needed some repairs in Scandinavium, Gothenburg.