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None of them come close to this beast 😅

I really admire Stiga's marketing department (really, no joke!). What we have here is another standard 7 ply composition, nothing special about it (at naked eye). The handle is made from fineline (reconstituted wood), trying to mimic Zebrano. It does look nice, and at first I really thought it...

It's Limba / Ayous / Kiri

From a blade builder perspective, most of my customers with large hands request straight handles, some of them anatomic and I think the least percentage would be flared. In fact I don't remember ever making an exceptionally large FL handle, but I did make some very big straight handles. A FL...

What's underneath the top ply has a much bigger impact on feeling, than the top ply itself, namely the medial ply and core. Kiri is softer than Ayous, that's why your V5 holds the ball well despite having an Ash top player. Since wood has such a big variation, even two blades with Ayous cores...

Something like that, although it comes more from the medial layer. Spruce in the medial usually creates a sharp sound, but I think that having balsa in the core magnified it.

Mahogany is extremely heavy to be used as a core, yet this blade only weighs 74g (with a low balance). How?! It is something I wanted to make for a while now, and it's the first "not so legal" blade I put for sale here. The central layer of the blade is actually made from two woods, the playing...

The lineup is already very strong, some of these fibers may not make the cut to be in the final team 😅. So I will do some testes first and report back.

Speaking of fibers, just received an order 😁 There's some new stuff in here, excited to experiment!

I guess it's a reflection of what people want, probably around 80% of my custom orders are fiber blades.

Note to self: when making a transparent handle, don't forget to erase all the pencil marks on the blade 😅. It's a stiff, hard and fast blade with little to no vibration. Available FS. - Koto / Carbon / Kiri / Carbon / Koto - 89.6g - 6.1mm - 157x150mm - FL (100x25.2-23.2mm) - 1593Hz -...

Another stab at a faster WSC, this time closer to the original structure but replacing the soft-carbon layer by a higher density version. Medium soft-carbon seems a more appropriate name for this fiber than Super soft-carbon (as I've used previously), it's not as soft as soft-carbon, but also...

Old school style defensive blade. Five plies of similar thickness, the vertical plies are European Cypress and the horizontal plies are Ayous. European Cypress is not bouncy like Asian Cypress, and it's actually a good replacement for Willow (which I find hard to get nowadays). The blade feels...

Imagine being an EJ and also building blades for a living 😅. I'm actually not an EJ, I know very well what I like in a blade, but I'm also very curious! There was a time when I was experimenting a bunch of blades and it really hurt my game. I don't test custom orders unless specifically...

I hadn't even noticed it 😅

It's happening!

The goal was to make a thin, but stiff and hard outer fiber blade. It is indeed very stiff for its thickness, as the frequency suggests, but surprisingly not that hard! It has a compact head size, with a compact feeling as well, and it should be good for a more direct, close to the table play...

A little bit of a paradox this one, and the proof that frequency doesn't necessarily relate to speed! This is just how the "Super" Diolen-Carbon works, you get all the stiffness from the vertically weaved carbon, but Diolen is just a tough plastic: it gives vibration dampening, it increases the...

This blade serves as a direct comparison to the previous one, as it was made in the exact same way, I just changed AC for IzC (apart from the obvious different handle). IzC is a little stiffer and faster than AC , while being marginally harder. The main difference is that it has much more...

It's true that, used in the same conditions, AC gives a harder feeling than ALC. However, I've found that by using a more flexible resin, AC can give pretty much the same feeling, the characteristic crisp, but relatively soft feedback of ALC. It has a bit less of that cracking sound (which some...