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Glad it helped motivate you to have a go at it - practice makes perfect 😏

Lol! I probably missed a trick in not having an affiliate link to the rotating cutter thingy (aka lazy Susan for table tennis blades) 😄

With softer sponge rubbers, I've now found that pressing down hard and going with a single pass works better than several smaller cuts. The oil and a fresh blade does help. I'll look to update once I've tried out the scissors - feel free to give me a nudge here in March if I haven't done...

Glue sheets have strong adhesion on the blade so I definitely recommend varnishing the blade, especially if the top layer is a softer wood (rule of thumb = anything light in colour). For OX rubbers, you probably only need a single thin coat of varnish on the blade

I recommend praying :LOL: They're not easy to glue on. I've tried both methods. Glue sheets are preferred cos they give the rubber 'structure'. A firmness that you don't get with just using glue. The way I've done on my OX setups is put 2 layers of glue on the rubber and the blade and then...

Tends to be a few possibilities: - Rubber was domed shaped before applying and wasn't rolled on/applied properly without any gaps between the rubber and the blade. Tends to happen to rubbers that are already curled up before applying. Solution = Get someone else to help press down one part of...

About once every 4-6 rubbers depending on how hard I had to cut them. I use a hard plastic rotating cutting board too so that'll dull the edge slightly faster than a cutting mat. It does get pricey so, because I need to be more efficient and smart about my expenses, I've decided that the LWB...

:cool: That's more good feedback - glad the care for the equipment is coming across on video.

Thanks! Yeah, the oil does help - basically anything that reduces the friction between the blade and the rubber sponge. Rubbers like Butterfly's Tenergy, Tibhar's Evolution, Xiom's Vega series tend to have softer, more brittle sponges, particularly when compared against the hard sponges in...

Finally finished a complete video instructional guide for how to cut, glue, and assemble a table tennis bat from scratch. Recognise there are other really experienced people here who are also great at setting up bats - this was my method. Background: A film student approached me to ask if I'd...

No, it isn't. The M8 feels stiffer and faster even despite it being a training class blade. What I've noticed about the M8 versus the Echo is that the Echo has a much nicer feel, design, and stronger level of control.

I would say Saturday mornings would be best - I'm quite tied up with other things this September but October is a possibility. I'm also occasionally around on Wednesday/ Thursday evenings but there's usually already many playing there so I tend to only go by to engage with the community and my...

Been VERY tempted to try out the Yinhe Pro 01 and 05 - I'm focusing my attention on other blades at the moment though. I'm not yet at a stage where I can buy loads of blades and try them all out so I have to choose my niche. The current plan is to trial a range of hyper budget blades, purely...

The Echo for sure.

Considering the Sanwei CC is Off+ :p and is useable by advanced beginners? Those speed ratings aren't really something to look into too deeply :) It's just a way to roughly classify speed and is quite an imperfect measure - there isn't really a better way right now since the industry has adopted...

Those that have sent to me thus far (The Echo, Parla, and the Froster PBO) have certainly ranked very highly in build quality. I do reference in my Froster PBO review that my first unit had some product flaws with loose carbon fibres and that my second unit was perfect. Even Sanwei's budget CS...

Swing by and check them out when you're in the area :)

It may be something I explore adding to my reviews - I don't usually dive into that kind of technical aspect since I focus on different things about blades but it sounds useful to report on :) Thank you for the feedback

What blade did you use back in the day? My standard recommendation for players changing equipment is to only change one thing at a time. Changing to a whole new setup tends to mean lots of training time needed to adjust to it If I was to recommend something before you bought the new setup I...

Thanks. The 75 inner fiber isn't a current priority for me but I could change my mind 😉. My next plan is to do a play test of the blades in the hyperbudget range and I still have a video project to complete around how to guide for assembling a table tennis bat