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I often get asked about the fastest blade possible, but not so much about the slowest one. Well, I decided to build it anyway... This is the slowest (still playable) blade I've ever built. Honestly, I don't even know how this will perform, there is almost no bounce! But if you do get the ball to...

I still do, just not with a nice planer. I buy them thicker than I need and then bring them down as required.

First option. I still don't have the possibility to re-saw wood myself, I don't even have a nice wood planer like you 😅.

Nothing new here, just a really fast blade... Available FS. - Hinoki / A-C / Kiri / A-C / Hinoki - 89.6g - 7.6mm - 157x150mm - STSQ (102x28.0x22.5mm) - 1916Hz - Balance: 3.3cm (Med)

Technically manufacturers could easily do this, if they can give you a weight range, they could also give a balance range, but it would be confusing. Some do, like osp, but they only say head or handle, which is incorrect because the center of gravity is always on the head. Unless the handle...

It's not a secret, as many big manufacturers do, you can easily get it from china. But because I like to have the widest range possible for density, I also source them from different locations (those I will keep a secret 😅). I also buy locally, but here they grow Paulownia Tomentosa, which is a...

I never disagreed with him, in fact he is correct, and my analogy stated exactly that, but it's going to be harder and you'll have less margin for error. Another thing that he's right about is the myths part, because people associate bad looping ability with a thick balsa blade, but balsa is not...

Once again the analogy completely flies by you. God, why do I even try...

That question doesn't have a direct answer. Ayous, samba, obeche, abachi, different names for the same species depending on the region where it comes from, can greatly vary in density as well. I have cores ranging from 300 - 450 Kg/m3, that's a lot, and with wood, density and hardness are...

Hey genius, you can also cut a steak with a spoon. Is it the right tool for the job? Certainly not, but it gets it done. It will probably "feel" different but the steak doesn't care how you feel. Or you can just stop being hard headed and use a knife... So, unless you are also eating soup, and...

Keeping with the inner fiber concept for maximum feeling and touch, I tried to make this one even faster than the previous blade I posted. That can easily be done by thickening the core, the problem is that the composition was already on the heavy side, so I switched from Ayous to Kiri which is...

Indeed!

This blade has a very similar composition to the one I've just posted, the biggest difference is the use of S-AxC instead of AxC. It's a bit faster, springier, but still very soft in the realm of composite blades. Available FS. - Limba / Ayous / S-AxC / Ayous / S-AxC / Ayous / Limba - 90.5g -...

The so called "super" fibers are theoretically faster, but why don't we see them being more used on inner fiber compositions, for the blades that are on the market? The answer is simple, because it doesn't necessarily makes the blade faster. Here I'm not using a "super" fiber, it's just my...

Making the springy, springier! This is a HL5 structure, but with Fir instead of Ayous in the medial layer. Fir being slightly harder than Ayous, you get a crisper feel and a bit more speed, which makes it more suitable for Bh compared to the original composition. Of course that "directness" will...

Faster than a fh slap from Truls! This one is gone...

I wanted to pay tribute to the 2023 European Champions, and decided to do so with a blade that combines the weapons of choice of two Swedish players: former glory Waldner, and the new generation Truls. Waldner is best known for using the Waldner Senso Carbon in the last stages of his career, and...

Another slightly out of the box build, this time a 3+2 blade but with Ayous instead of the usual Hinoki or Cypress. Ayous doesn't have the same "trampoline" like feeling as these woods, and in this case I used very thick 1.8mm outer layers. So, this is meant for someone who enjoys a very stiff...

This time a purely defensive blade, also with an unusual composition. The stiff and relatively hard Sycamore outer layers provide a crisp feeling, the thick Ayous medial layers offer good sweetspot and stability, and the soft and dead Cork core makes it very dampening. It's a slow blade, yet it...

Easily one of my favorite builds! It's a Vis composition with a twist. For the top layer I used this very good looking "fish-scale" Ako, which is just slightly harder than Ayous but softer than Limba for example. For the medial layer I swapped the usual Ayous for Sycamore, which is a dense but...