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Finished the blade yesterday. Just waiting so see if a final detail is going to happen or not. In the meantime here's one more pic before I post the result.

I'm more afraid of termites than the Goon Squad. A Goon Squad of termites would be the worst case scenario. One more step in the process. I think by now the final design is easy to see.

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Ok, I was kidding after all. That is a blade, just not for Der. I just found it funny that a blade I'm working on at the same time, is almost the polar opposite to what Der requested. So he gets a Koto outer ply. I normally start by gluing the outer layers, then I glue those to the core. Pretty...

Humor and deception? I have no idea what you are talking about 🤨

This is the thread I will use to document the building process of Der's blade for the blademaker's challenge. One thing I learned after some time building blades, is that sometimes the customer is very wrong about what he thinks he wants. This is such a case... So I decided to give him...

Sugar, spice, and everything nice. Wait, that was the Powerpuff girls... All sorts of quality wood of course, as well as the ocasional composite. Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk

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I made this experiment because I always wanted to make a blade with thick and hard outer layers. My intention was to make it stiff and relatively hard, maybe for a modern chopper who also needs some power to counter attack. As such, it's still a reasonably fast blade, probably in the Off- range...

I'm very convinced that is in fact ALC, that's why I'm calling it as such in my posts. Definitly not Diolen or Dyed Kevlar, it's much different than those two. Anyway, whatever it is, after much trial and error it is the closest I have to Butterfly's ALC. Not the same weave pattern they use but...

I was just posting one pic to get the games started. I'm documenting the build but my idea was to make a thread once it's complete. Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk

Started working on this today. Told you I was going to use Ebony [emoji846] Lot's of work ahead, too late to turn back now... Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk

Thanks for the tip. I actually had to do that in this case because the first hole I drilled was for my regular 12mm logo, then I had to clean up the mess with the 15mm one but it still wasn't enough.

I might as well show a couple more pics from Ame's blade. Full disclosure. Balsa is a pain in the a** to work with, especially with thick cores such as this one. It's very soft so it's hard to get a clean edge while routing. Cleaning up the edges is also hard because ZLC is very resilient, so...

Yes! But a monster with a soft side. Sulley would be a good name.

Be careful out there, there is a weapon of mass destruction on the loose! Composition: Hinoki / Ayous / SZLC / Kiri / SZLC / Ayous / Hinoki Weight: 110.6g Thickness: 7.9mm Freq.: 1700 Hz Balance: 2.4cm (Low)

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No need to ask questions on my part, I know exactly what to do 🙂

Hopefully they will arrive soon so he gets to try them!

This was a combination blade I made a few months ago for a medium pips player, first time I used SZLC. ZLC is hard to work with, but this thing is extra hard! Composition: Koto / Ayous / SZLC / Kiri / ZLC / Hinoki / Ash Weight: 96.1g Thickness: 6.05mm Freq.: 1507/1485 Hz Balance: 2.3cm (Low)