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Please never use the words 'ball grab' and 'repulsion ' in the same sentence, in that order. I winced and went cross-eyed just thinking about it. 😖😖

"Keith" by Playlunch --a highly satirical aussie song about inner city living, having God-awful neighbours and dealing with a chronic shortage of parking spaces As for the song itself, it's an absolute banger! 😎 I've been listening to it on repeat while making blades, and it's got me dancing...

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Beautiful blades Sergio - bravo. 👌 (Re: Hinoki's bounciness -- remind me to introduce you to Sköllawood sometime, you might really get a kick out if it. 😎😎)

Fish scale grain is caused by the tree's medullary rays -- these are part of the tree's vascular system. Not all trees have them, they are far more common in hardwood species. Medullary rays run from the cambium layer under the bark into the heart of the tree, much like the spokes on a bicycle...

Mmm... 🤔 Yeah you could well be right in that... but presently I'm a bit undecided. Some sort of yellow or white grained meranti feels more likely to me than the idea of it being anigre. The Diodes I've personally seen, had a very muted impact response to them. If the outers were anigre, I...

Egon my brother, you are an absolute legend -- thank you so much! Re: the veneering glue -- thanks anyway mate, just thought I'd ask anyway. Telling what glue was originally used to build a blade is always the hardest bit. As for what the JSH's outer wood is... (...hoo boy - here we go 😆😆...)...

Ha! 😄😄 If that's planchenello wood, then I'm a pickled eggplant 🤣🤣🤣 You've actually done me an enormous favor here with the details in your post Egon, really wish I spotted it sooner. I've actually been trying to clone this blade now for quite a while, on behalf of a European customer of...

I haven't used the Rxton 7 for a while myself -- i bought a bunch of them when it first came out, but found them a mixed bag. While I initially really liked it for its dwell and spin (especially during serve) i found it pretty crap for topspin looping. It had a 'hole' in its rebound when i...

Not bad. It started a bit clunky but finished strong... I quite enjoyed that. 🙂🙂

I'll take the contrary position here, and say 'yes it can work...' but it really depends on the player in question, your playing style, the blades you choose, and the rubbers you team them with. I preface what follows by confirming that using one common set-up with all your racquets, and...

Never underestimate the size and spending power of the TT veterans market 😎😎

Wow - that's a new one. 🤔 Only thing I can think of is air circulation. I'm totally guessing here, but your aluminium case was probably far more airtight than the fabric case. As a result the climatic conditions inside your case differend greatly from those outside it. The technique you...

Somebody call? 🙂 (Reads thread) Ahhh okay, outer carbon Limba blades. Hmm-- okay... I'm probably going to cost myself a sale here, but so be it. 🤨 While I make plenty of outer carbon composite blades, and have used limba on many occasions in the past, to be brutally honest I really don't use...

Personally I'm still waiting for a ball-collecting Roomba to be invented. 🤣 Untill then I'll stick with the regular scoop net.

Supergluing a couple of coins or a small lead fishing sinker to the end of the handle also works quite well too. If you don't want to make the change permanent, I recommend using some double sided tape instead of super glue. I'm told you can also buy weighted handle tape from some tennis...

Pretty much, yeah... Or at least I believe so. According to my coach, the original Telson 100 apparently was pretty good but not great, so Loki made some sort of change to it almost immediately after launching it. That new version then became the T100 Hyper, which was far more popular than the...

I share your curiosity 😊😊 If there were an effective way to accurately model the performance of a new blade design (prior to prototyping) it would be such a boon to my blade development projects! Unfortunately if there *is* such tech available cheaply at SME level, it's manufacturers are...

Mmmmm... 🤔 I see what you're saying, but I still don't think it would be that useful as a comparative metric, as it still doesn't allow for things like popping catapult from the high rebound softwood layers. Ultimately it would end up working like blade resonance frequencies -- i.e.: more of a...

Unfortunately, the problem with this idea is that even if you could create a reliable method for figuring out these sorts of calculations for just a single blade, you'd never get a consistent, static set of numbers out of the blade anyway. Wood flexibility can fluctuate with changes in the...