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I havent heard of this too
with the pricing of some of these blades, I would rather use vanish or proper blade sealers
I've never tried that. Old fashioned hair zpray works.
One cautionary note and another way to think about this. A reason NOT to seal blades.
These days, premium performance rubbers cost as much as blades (or a lot more if you take it over the course of a year or two). For example, a Viscaria costs ~ 120-130 USD, but two sheets of T05 cost 160 USD!
If you are not very careful with how you seal or vanish blades, two things can happen. You can make the top surface harder and faster and totally change the feel of the blade (which can happen if you use products not designed for TT). Almost worse, you can make it very difficult to get the rubber to adhere properly and uniformly to the blade with water-based glues. (This can happen even with sealers and varnish designed for TT). You can get little pockets under the surface where the rubber is not quite stuck down (especially around edges, but sometimes in the middle). That badly affects rubber performance. So if you are spending that much money on rubber, why would you do something that might make the stuff play at less than optimal.
These days I don't seal blades. Maybe I would if I played with a ZJK-sZLC, but I don't. I use $50/sheet rubbers on a <$100 blade. And I use Btfly Free Chack II glue which does not seem to damage the koto surface.
Some people just like to mess with their blades.
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Well, i should be the last to speak on this. Before TT-Companies started selling sealants we used to use regular nail polish.
Yes, you've read correctly: nail polish.
I think i still have an old Persson Powerplay from the eighties with the blade face in shiny red somewhere in my crates.
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I like Baal's hairspray method better. Takes under 30 seconds. The nail polish thing is funny. But it probably took a long time to get full coverage. And it would be darn hard to get the layer thin enough for my happiness. I would rather just use sealant.
But I would love to see a photo of that blade with the shinny red nail polish on it.
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