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More quarantine experiments. This is my second bamboo core blade, only 5mm thick so it's very flexible (as the frequency reading suggests). Very high throw blade, I thought it would be a lot slower than it really is. Composition: Limba / Koto / Bamboo / Koto / Limba Weight: 85.8g Thickness...

Very solid. It weighs 96.6g, which is fine for me because I'm finding I prefer to play with heavy blades.

That is a neat feature. That's one blade that I probably wouldn't let go off. And I'm really jealous of that Redwood, it has a really nice grain pattern and color!

You are right about that, but it's always a compromise. Kiri gives a lot of flexibility regarding blade design, but the feeling and power is different from ayous. I made two blades with Engelmann spruce when I started building blades. They were very solid as you pointed out, but one had a Ipe...

It's curious you say that because I just built a blade using an englemann spruce core. But I don't find it that heavy, the density is ~410 kg/m3 so only a little heavier than the typical Ayous core.

Thanks Felipe, I will consider you.

Yes, these types of blades are very hard to make, the differences are always subtle and never as high as we hope.

I don't want to disclose that yet. I'm not even sure this has the effect that I'm hoping, and I'm sure there is always room from improving, that's why I'm looking for testers.

Not sure you get my point but ok. That's what I'm saying, it's not just about composition.

I know there are plenty of asymmetric blades out there, I have made some myself. But those are variable hardness, not stiffness. Of course that when you create an asymmetric composition there is also variable stiffness to some degree, but not like this one has. This is not just an asymmetric...

More quarantine experiments. This might be the world's first variable stiffness blade. This blade was designed with a push-blocking game in mind, the BH side has more flex than the FH to create more energy dissipation. I'm not a push-blocker, so I will be looking for testers for this blade...

No, they are the same wood, the black part is just a pattern that happens naturally Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk

Thicker core and thicker over all, so it's stiffer. Makes sense. Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk

Built this one some time ago for a member of another forum. Typical Boll ALC composition but with a slightly larger core. Composition: Koto / A-C / Limba / Kiri / Limba / A-C / Koto Thickness: 5.95mm Weight: 88.4g Freq.: 1507 Hz

Longclaw is a reference to GOT, but Mjollnir is a good name too! I have a feeling that Der_Echte wouldn't have a problem wielding this one :)

I think I'll call this one "Longclaw" :) Composition: 1 ply Tola Weight: 101.2g Thickness: 7.0mm Headsize: 155x150mm Freq.: 1550 Hz

Exactly right shinshiro. I have a scale that goes from very low, which corresponds to a very light blade with a very heavy handle, to very high, which corresponds to a very heavy blade with a very light handle. Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk

Thank you for the feedback Ingo. That pretty much was the experience I had with the two Innegra blades I tested. I guess your blades are a tad slower because they are thinner. Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk

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Thank you Shinshiro! That's my philosophy and I intend to keep it :) Looking forward to work you you again!