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Baracuda in blue?? Where?

If you already like a slower 5 ply wood, I don't think carbon is the right step up unless you are playing at a much higher level. Lower end offensive class blades like Nittaku Latika, Xiom Offensive S, Yasaka Extra Offensive, Stiga Infinity are built to maintain that natural, communicative 5 ply...

Rakza Z will be harder, slower and steadier with higher grip than Rozena. Control-wise it is considerably less bouncy with a safe high arc off the rubber but generating penetrating speed will be a bit more difficult without a solid swing. I think R7 and RZ are both control oriented rubbers that...

Probably no less than 39-40 degrees

IMO getting thicker sponge doesn't necessarily increase speed, it really just allows you better results when hitting harder. Have you by chance considered trying out a slightly faster blade?

These are both firm feeling rubbers that require an active stroke to penetrate the rubber properly. V>15 Extra has a higher throw and more spin potential but Ventus Extra has a sharper longer arc. If you are not used to playing 47.5degree rubbers on the backhand, you might consider trying...

QC stands for quality control. In general the points of low quality I have observed in DHS blades are handles that are not centered, low quality cuts of wood used (rough, inconsistent grain, joints on surface) as well as inconsistent ply thickness and outer plies that are not oriented straight...

Cheap DHS blades have low quality and QC, IMO it's a toss up wether or not you get a good one, much better to buy Yinhe if you're looking at Chinese brands.

Being at the edge of the blade, I don't think it would matter wether you boiled your own animal products to make hide glue, or simply used superglue from the local market

Behind all the masks, it is spelled Sjan

Unfortunate to have a blade delaminate like this but it should be fairly easily to fix with a clamp and a bit of glue.

I have not bought RWV specifically but I have had several Stiga blades and the newer ones do seem to have a better quality finish to them, especially the ones with metal lens (in my case, Celero, Intensity). The handles and cut around the blade edges are much smoother than the plastic lens...

Fastarc G1, Ventus Extra

I believe there are a couple sellers on Ebay that still might have old stock of the previous version OffS

I missed the train on acquiring the Mazunov and there are very few 5 ply wood blades in the same class. Have you ever tried Xiom Aria? All the other fast/hard 5 ply blades like Goiabao, Ebenholz/Rosewood etc have very hard very thin outers unlike Aria and Mazunov which have thicker outer plies.

I'm thinking it might be a special club edition, Brave seems to be a TT club in Tokyo.

Alpha is thinner and more flexible, better for looping. Premium Contact is a bit thicker and feels more solid, better for mixed attacking. I thought the SGS handle fell apart rather quickly and didn't like the foam

I think there is something going on with both topsheet and sponge. If it were only done to the sponge, then the rubber would curl towards the sponge as the tuning dissipates, instead for the most part the rubbers shrink overall and remain flat.

Yinhe Pro Feeling has Koto outer plies which makes it a tad harder and more crisp than a limba or ayous inner carbon, but the handle is fairly beefy which is very nice to hold

Keep in mind that Stiga makes two flared handle stores, Legend and Master, Legend being bigger and thicker. The Sweden Classic felt a bit closer to the Around Classic than the Allround Evo to me, but they are similar all the way around. However the Yasaka flared handle feels a bit in between...