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It's true, I like head balance myself, but a strong head balance prevents you from making sharp movements with your wrist, for example banana or topspin backhand. In addition, with such balance it is difficult to recover quickly for the next shot. Its better to have a "golden mean" in everything.

Factory handles are made of fineline - painted veneers that are glued together. I think the stickiness has more to do with this glue than lignin. I have a blade with a handle made of a whole piece of natural walnut, which is polished to a shine, but it is not sticky at all.

If we were playing with bare blades, you would be right, but we play with rackets assembled with rubbers, and the weight of the rubber is the same or greater than the weight of the blade itself, which significantly shifts the balance upwards. In addition, harder and therefore heavier rubbers are...

A fairly old Butterfly Keyshot Light blade. I'm not the first person to remove the handles on this blade, maybe someone made the cavity before me, but it seems that this is factory work. The second photo shows how Arylate looks like

It depends greatly on the glue. Almost all chinese rackets are glued with PVA, and they don't have any problems with heat—PVA softens easily. Butterfly uses a different glue, but it's also easily removable. Xiom uses cyanoacrylate glue, which is virtually unaffected by heat, only acetone and a...

When you have a lot of rackets stacked next to each other, they protect each other. It's much more important to keep the rubbers from different rackets from sticking together. Regular disposable plastic bags do a great job of this. Besides this reduces oxygen access to the entire rubber and not...

After sanding, as @Wakkibatty correctly noted, you'll likely lose some thickness on the handles. There's a way to restore this thickness. To do this, remove the handle halves using a utility knife and a heat gun. It's a good idea to heat them thoroughly to soften the glue holding the handles...

And there's nothing to play with :) Legend has it that when asked how many bikes do you need, a real rider always answers with the formula n + 1, where n is the number of bikes they already own. What is this blade with a star on the handle?

If with a booster, it should be normal

Yes and not just once. This helps even when a narrow waist. And if you use light veneer, such as ayous, it adds very little weight and does not change the balance of the racket.

You can make the handle thicker. To do this, remove the two handle halves and glue a sheet of veneer to each. Veneer is standardly 0.6 mm thick, so you'll add 1.2 mm. This is often enough. To remove the handle without too much trouble, heat it up with a heat gun and a utility knife. If you do...

I tried the J3 40, and it's not much faster than the J3 39. It does have a great topsheet, but the sponge lacks dynamism.

And the remaining 80 will buy Loki rubber

Apparently, it's the high throw rubber again...

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Glayzer 09C is lightweight and slightly tacky. In thickness 2.1 and dimensions 150x157mm, it weighs 46 grams without glue. True, the stickiness is lower than that of Rakza Z and Hurricane.

I have a Palio TCT Titan Carbon blade. There is indeed a 115 mm wide metal mesh in the center of the blade, 25 mm away from the edge of the handle. That is, this mesh covers the playing part of the blade. I don't have the blade at hand now, but if anyone is interested, I'll post a photo later...

Young paulownia wood is much lighter than older wood. It's similar in weight to balsa, but doesn't dent as easily as balsa. Here's an example of kiri blade core blanks of the same size and thickness. The weight varies dramatically from 47 to 58 grams per blank! Perhaps the manufacturer used...

Here, most likely, this is done primarily to increase the wedge of the handle. From my experience, to change the balance, you can glue something heavy metal with hot glue to the end of the handle. It holds well and, if desired, can be easily dismantled without damaging the handle.

In my opinion, making a copy of a blade over time is like making brothers :). The blades turn out to be very similar to each other, but still each has its own character.