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I was suprized, why is there no review on this blade, so I ordered one. As from a chinese manufacturer I set my standards for a wider range, as I expect a bit bigger variety in the production of a blade type. This particular V-16 blade tries to be a substitute of the famous Michael Maze blade from Butterfly. Let's see. Weight should be around 85 mine is 92,4. Thickness should be 5,9 mm, mine is 5,94 mm. I measured the veeners under a microscope and they are quite uniform thick at the head of the blade, there is a bigger variety at the handle. The surface veener was lacques and repolished in the factory, nice. The whole composition of the blade and the materials used seems a quality work. No trimming of carbon and kevlar fibers on the edges. So manufacturing seems nice, even in weight department Butterfly can vary 4g from the given value. Tempo and general sound of the blade seems an OFF+ blade, when hitting a ball with a naked blade, or resonating it on your skull.
Testing the blade with rubbers, I paired it with a boosted pair of Three Sword Red Dragon non ITTF rubbers. This setup resulted in an OFF racket with fine touch. The blade has a nice feeling. Ball feedback is really good and scales well with power. The soft touch is similar like the real Maze blade. The speed I think is a bit more, but it is very linear and adjustable. Dropping is piece of cake no matter if it is passive or punch drop. Looping is very dinamic with a fine touch. When smashing you can feel the ball and you can achieve very good kill shots. Ball placement is quite easy, the blade is a bit bouncy, but the rubber slows it to minimum. I believe both hard sponge rubbers and soft sponge rubbers are good for this blade. [/FONT]
Many people say that they bought different pieces of the same model, well I believe mine is a bit heavier and a bit faster, then the average ideal model. Handle is very nice similar to the Timo Boll series.
Overall all I can say this blade is a very nice clone of Michael Maze, around 80-90%. The wood is the same as in MM, but the arylate-carbon is switched to kevlar-carbon, which resonates a bit more, which overall compensates the general numb feel of the yinhe blades. Buy this blade and you won't regret it. Mid distance looper/attacker blade that has a fine touch.
Testing the blade with rubbers, I paired it with a boosted pair of Three Sword Red Dragon non ITTF rubbers. This setup resulted in an OFF racket with fine touch. The blade has a nice feeling. Ball feedback is really good and scales well with power. The soft touch is similar like the real Maze blade. The speed I think is a bit more, but it is very linear and adjustable. Dropping is piece of cake no matter if it is passive or punch drop. Looping is very dinamic with a fine touch. When smashing you can feel the ball and you can achieve very good kill shots. Ball placement is quite easy, the blade is a bit bouncy, but the rubber slows it to minimum. I believe both hard sponge rubbers and soft sponge rubbers are good for this blade. [/FONT]
Many people say that they bought different pieces of the same model, well I believe mine is a bit heavier and a bit faster, then the average ideal model. Handle is very nice similar to the Timo Boll series.
Overall all I can say this blade is a very nice clone of Michael Maze, around 80-90%. The wood is the same as in MM, but the arylate-carbon is switched to kevlar-carbon, which resonates a bit more, which overall compensates the general numb feel of the yinhe blades. Buy this blade and you won't regret it. Mid distance looper/attacker blade that has a fine touch.
