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It's not. I have a spreadsheet to estimate the weight of a blade, based on the average values of wood density. For example, for a composition with Ayous core and medial, assuming carbon instead of whatever they put in there, and a standard head size, we have an estimated weight of 72g. This...

Are you asking about the fibers in a general way or about the ones I use? Either way, it's not an easy answer because the difference sometimes are just nuances. I work with more than one density of glass, aramid and spectra, but Spectra is a lot lighter than Aramid so for the same density fabric...

Some woods I don't use a lot, so I don't keep them in stock, but if a customer asks for it and I'm able to get it, I will. I will not buy in bulk (unless some good opportunity appears), so it might take some time if I have to order from a specific supplier and I have to gather more stuff to make...

OK, you are right, the core is Ayous at least, but at that weight, something fishy is going on. The laws of physics still apply, and I know those handles weigh next to nothing but still, with an Ayous core, Lati top ply (or white wenge) which is pretty heavy as well, it's already a heavy...

If all of them have the same density, and lamination conditions are the same, it will come down to the weave pattern, so I will speak about what I use. Diolen-Carbon would be the stiffest, followed by IC, and plain Diolen would probably be the slowest. The Gladiator has a edge band, so I cannot...

#1256 - Inner AC - OFF A loyal customer asked me to replicate a King Acb. This was my first time building one and I never actually tried it (it's impossible for me to try all blades in existence 😅). Being a DHS blade, I built it like I would a W968, but with different structure of course. I...

None. Or should I say, too small to be perceived. That's a 1mm difference on top of the blade and 0.5mm on each side, sometimes even normal manufacturing gives you this sort of difference. For example, many Butterfly blades (especially older models), are stated as 150x157mm in the catalog, but...

You are correct that I contradicted myself, nice catch, I was too lazy to explain the whole thing correctly. However, your statement is also not fully correct, a blade can absolutely be flexible and have low vibrations because there are many types of vibrations. In this case, by lowering the...

#1279 - Outer Kev - OFF This post if full of speculation, so don't quote me as a reliable source... So, there has been all this hype around Hugo's blade, and everyone wants a Hugo HAL. I'm almost certain he is using the earlier model, the Hugo SAL. Xiom first came up with the SAL version, the...

#1277 - Asymmetric Inner/Outer - All/Off- I've built an asymmetric blade for a veeery good player, he's a modern defender and wanted something fast on the Fh, with a more dampening Bh side. My experience with using "super diolen-carbon" on these types of blades has been very good, so that's...

#1297 - Outer S-AyC - OFF/OFF+ This blade only came to life because I made a mistake (as usual 😂), I laminated S-AyC for a customer's blade instead of S-AxC. I've explained this a few times but the x and y in those names are not just for fancy effect, they represent the direction of the Aramid...

This is actually a very good question. Slower is slower, it's a relative term, it serves as a comparison, so in this case I can confidently say one blade is slower than the other. That doesn't mean one is slow or fast. These slow or fast terms are very important to me because, in a way, they...

Ironically, the iteration lead to the first one that I made 😂. In fact, that one is also interesting because it proves another point. This blade maker also has another position which is: mass doesn't influence the speed of the blade. Curiously, the only difference from that first blade to the...

#1262 and 1267 - Inner TC90 These two blades exist because they were part of the iteration for a customer's blade. He had something very specific in mind, and I made a few tries until we got there. I wasn't planning on finishing them now, but recently I had a debate with another blade builder...

The rest of the answer is in accordance with everything I had already said previously and it basically shows how the equation is indeed applicable to TT. However, the problem is not static, but dynamic, as you had already pointed out previously as well, so the answer is not so clear and direct...

Dynamic JC

The simple answer is: there is no simple answer. 😅 The formula is simple and easy to understand, there is a potential for achieving more speed, if the mass and acceleration increases. However, there is a physical limitation to how much acceleration can be produced by a human. This is where...

I can assure you I'm completely calm, my apologies if I conveyed the information in a way it made seem like otherwise. However, this is a public forum, everyone has the write to reply. You are clearly trying to promote your glue method, and I don't want to get in the way of that, but you've...

Your are taking conclusions from your own incorrect premises, therefore your conclusions are incorrect too. All woods have a pronounced grain structure, this is a fact, not my opinion. It appears to me that you do not know the difference between softwoods and hardwoods, which is surprising...

Citing yourself does not make your statements true. Specially this part about shrinkage is incorrect. These are not my words but from other trusted sources: "Wood shrinkage is the reduction in a wood's dimensions as it loses moisture, occurring when the moisture content drops below the fiber...