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I've heard next to nobody talking about Lebrun All+ or Kirin K5, whereas Korbel has decades of history both in amateur and professional levels. With more expensive products you are often paying more for the name and brand, but also often fit/finish and quality.

I used flared handle but I have also used Pure with a straight handle. Pure is slightly thicker than Wood (6.4mm vs 6.0mm), and Pure is 7 ply vs Wood 5 ply. With Pure the vibration is less harsh, less loud, hence 'softer' likely because there is more wood in the composition to absorb vibration...

IMO you're putting too much thought into it, you have already tried and liked Vega Euro H so its a safe bet already. What you need to improve is a rubber you are familiar with and can manage well, and it looks to me you have already found a strong option to choose In terms of blade, I prefer...

To be fair to others, most have not already previously trained and adapted to other hard and stiff blades like IFT5000 and Mazunov. I remember when I first tried an outer ALC blade and couldn't get over how numb and pingy it felt, compared to the 5 ply wood blades I had used up to that point

How many new rubbers does Xiom need? They already have like 4 separate Vega lineups, classic Vegas like Asia and Euro, newage Vegas like Japan and China, Vega DF versions, and Vega Hybrid versions. They even have Vega Intro. Not only to mention they still have several Omega series still on sale...

He used TBALC with Donic handle for a while before he switched to inner. I'm not surprised if he went back to Viscaria structure

Sponge on my 2.5 split all the way through about an inch around where I normally mishit on the edge, likely because I reglued it on a blade with a smidge of overhang. So I don't think its indestructible either

G09c to Z03 is gonna be a big change. I'd use it on whichever blade you are more familiar with though, so you can gain reference Z03 is also no lightweight so it might be more manageable on Infinity with standard headsize, than Mazunov which is slightly oversized

The sponge is porous but not extremely so. I found cut and glued weights for both my 2.5 and 2.7 to be around 49g so its not really light nor is it heavy

If anything there was a point at which his equipment choices became more conservative. During the speed glue era the fastest blade he used was Rutis (after Violin and Acoustic), then he switched to TBS/TBALC before transitioning to the 7 ply wood Long 3/506 and finally settling on W968. He also...

Before Cybershape we had the Tibhar Swing violin headshape, Banda/Donic Waldner teardrop headshape, Butterfly Klampar/Cypress X boxy headshape

Victas never acquired TSP, they were two divisions of Yamato Takkyuu co. that were merged together to consolidate the product lineup. And VO>102 is not the same as Spinpips, VO series are made in Germany and Spectol/Spinpips are made in Japan. 102 plays a lot more similarly to other modern style...

Its cheap, can't imagine that it would feel that good. But low grade single ply Hinoki doesn't feel that good anyways so might be fine just to have a blade in the shape of a single ply Hinoki. Its hard to get a legit feeling Hinoki blade nowadays without shelling out big money for products like...

Never tried Fextra but its supposed to be a Clipper clone, so its likely not similar to 5 ply blades at all. Clipper is thick and stiff with a soft feeling, whereas Korbel has a harder feeling but is more flexible

Clipper

Hammond is an old school rubber, I'd pick Factive over Hammond any day

I wouldn't think so. Desiccant packets are literally designed to absorb and also hold moisture within itself, which is why you see it used so widely especially in food and material packaging. Whereas paper and towels are also function to absorb moisture but they also do not retain moisture as...

Lmao calling U2 a crappy blade is insane to me. Its cheap no doubt but I think it is one of the highest quality and best performing blades you can buy for the price. It can sit alongside any other 7 ply wood and not feel out of place, so I don't think it's fair to compare its position to...

I would personally pick the Cybershape Clipper over the Wavy, Clipper is similarly stiff to Wavy but Clipper is soft where Wavy is hard, and I feel Clipper is more stable and more predictable than Wavy without giving up the direct/stiff nature of thicker style blades. Wavy does perform more...

For a while, Butterfly was actually offering a custom blade service, where you could request options like handle style and design, blade headsize and composition. This might be one of those IF i had to venture a guess, or it could be a selected custom made for KLH, as he was using the exact same...