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Hey, I got my hands on a nice press (seems to be self made)- pressing the first blade tonight. Also I bought a tiny band saw. With that thing I safe so much time producing the handles. The babyshape for my son is ready. 2mm kiri, basalt, pine black limba. Around 1080hz and around all speed...

Not what I bought recently, but what I ve played/tested so far...

Nice looking blade! And I have to say: very good photography too! This might inspire me to take out my old and dusty sony A7R with the closeup lense.

Rasanter C53?

So Tronix ZGR and Rhyzen ZGX are basically the same?

I am still looking for such an old book press. Good to know I have to be careful using it (if I will ever get one)

I got it- here you go:

Thank you @_JOOLA_ and @CCBladecraft , those information really help! I just ordered 750g PU glue and will try it fot the next blade, at least for the layers without fiber and the handle. I didnt know different glues need different pressure, but I understand the idea behind that. The blade for...

The bright sun was shining trough the window and I just applied the oil, that may be the reason. Also the padouk becomes this shining look by using oil.

Wow, 13-16g means I have to save 50%! I had a handle that thin I could easily bend the surface down with a fingertip. So my blades usually come out at 62-70g for normal headsize without the handle mounted- with the weight you mentioned the resulting blades are even at the lower end of the weight...

I only use olive oil for the handles. This brings out the true colors of the wood what I like alot. And I played quite some time with these handles and my experience is that sweat still goes in and out- no slipping effect.

Well it turned out that weight balance is a nice side effect and I also like it in terms of design, but the answer is pure efficiency. I can buy 50cm long kiri wood or 100cm. So either I get 1 or 3 cores out when cutting to 28cm. When cutting to 25cm I get 2 or 4 cores and have to add the...

Hello again! There are two things I am unsure about and always testing on. 1. How much glue to use. I have the feeling that I should use more glue but the blades would become heavier and I am struggling with the weights anyway. I use around 5g for every layer. Whithout fiber I can use less, with...

Good morning and thank you. Thats a great compliment for me! I think I habe a few things to discuss and will come back to this later after work 👍

So this is Nr.12 and my last one so far- I skipped 2 early cybershapes because they are ugly and a few failed blades ;-). This is a unique blade simply because I had no more material to make a 2nd one. I had some 220g carbon fibre left from my RC airplanes I had 20 years ago and this was...

Nr. 10 and 11 for my trainer. They havent been used yet. She said she needs a 2nd blade in case it fits her game, so I made 2 at the same time from the same pieces of wood, same glue. You hear a small difference when bouncing the ball, although they are both 83g (0,5g difference). I hope the...

And here come Nr. 8 and 9 which are my actual personal blades. I wanted to try the SP Spinfire from Der Materialspezialist which I got used but as good as new in the cybershape shape, so I decided to make a blade for the rubber. Composition is Black...

Thank you! Here is Nr. 6 which is a blade with DEF size and approximately all- speed. Its for a team-mate. Composition is kiri-poplar-kiri-PP fiber-kiri-poplar-kiri. The backhand is sealed with epoxy to harden it for the use with LP. The FH side is lacquered 3 times to make it playable because...

Nr.5 is an experimental blade. I tryed to have a slower bh for long pimples and gave it to a tt friend of another club to test. Its ALL speed was too slow for him and bh had bad control for him so he will give it back and I will try it with sp as soon as my injury is cured. Its...

Here are my blades Nr. 3 and Nr.4. Nr.3 Limba-Abachi-Polypropilene+paper fiber-Kiri-PP+Paper-Abachi-Limba Konvex handle is made of padouk and later changed to FL. This is a very interesting blade and was my favourite for a couple of weeks. It became a bit heavy again at 90/91g, so I built...