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- It‘s incredibly hard for me to get on an outside edge with my right skate (I can do it, but it’s definitely harder than with my left skate).
- When I do one foot power pulls, I can’t really shift my weight to the inside edge on my left foot (it feels like I am always on the outside edge when going left or right on one foot and when I do get on the inside, I almost immediately have to put my other foot down and can‘t continue). With my right foot, I can get onto the inside edge, but have trouble getting on the outside edge immediately afterwards.
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- When I close my eyes and skate on one foot, my right foot doesn‘t follow the line on the ground, but does a curve (to the inside/right) when going forwards.
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So what I was thinking is that my left blade might need to be moved to the inside a little bit to help me balance on my inside edge more easily. Furthermore, my right blade needs adjustment so that I can glide in a straight line and the blade needs to be moved to the outside a bit more to make it possible to get to an outside edge without too much effort. Does that make sense or am I completely wrong?
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My current sharpener is really good.
You have a lot packed into your post. I've extracted key points I'll address.
(1) How do you know your current sharpener is really good? Do you have the knowledge and the tools to check the quality of the sharpening? Before considering positioning/alignment of the blades, it's critical to first check that edges are level. Edges that are substantially off-level will bias your inside/outside edges.
(2) If you want to correct for edge bias by moving the blade inside/outside, you've got things reversed. If you are having a hard time getting on to an outside edge, you want to move the blade to the inside. If you are having a hard time getting on to an inside edge, you want to move the blade to the outside. If you want the explanation for why, let me know, but I'll skip the details for now.
(3) To check for edge bias, please don't skate with your eyes closed. I see that suggestion popping up now and then on the Internet. First, it's potentially dangerous, of course. Second, it biases your test results, since it's unnatural to skate that way.
Ideally, go onto clean ice and have another skater (friend, instructor, coach) with you as an observer. Do
not sight along a straight line (such as a hockey line or the edge of the boards). Do
not focus on a single object as a target. You don't want to do anything to skew your test results.
Stroke forward to get up some speed. Glide on two feet. Then lift one foot slightly for a one-foot glide; e.g., the blade of the free foot is next to the ankle of the skating foot. Don't try to control the blade on the skating foot; let the blade take you where it wants. Repeat forward with the other foot. Then repeat the two one-foot glides when gliding backward.
When you are skating forward, the other person should look at you from the back and check whether you're gliding straight, veering to the right, or veering to the left. Similarly, when you are skating backward, the other person should look at you from the front. If you are skating on clean ice, you can also afterwards check the tracings on the ice, both to check the path of your glides and to check whether the inside and outside edges have equal weight.
(4) Depending on how strong an edge bias you have, correction may entail one or more of the following: (a) blade positioning/alignment, (b) corrective insoles, (c) shimming the blades.
I'll stop here for now. If you need more details, let me know.
ETA: From your photos, I've noticed that almost all the mounting screws have been installed. Blade positioning/alignment issues should have been resolved with a temp mount: only two screws in the elongated slots in the sole plate and only two screws in the elongated slots in the heel plate. That way there's far fewer holes to plug and re-drill should you need to move/realign the blade.
