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  1. How to recover after few days of consecutive play

    Creatine has a loading phase, you should start feeling effects after a week or two.
  2. How to recover after few days of consecutive play

    I train TT 3-4 times a week and go to the gym 4-5 times a week. I'm still relatively young but to help me recover i use some supplements. You can try creatine, it will help you to have more energy during training and a better recovery. Fish oil, or other omega 3/6/9 supplements are great for the...
  3. FS: Homemade blades

    I'm selling some of the blades i made. They are are good blades in their own right but don't suit my style as well as another one i made. All the blades are sealed. The price is 30€ per blade, plus shipping. PM for more details. Blade 1 - Oak/Maple/Western Red Cedar/Maple/Oak - 88.9g - 5.8mm...
  4. SDC Handmade Blades

    4 more blades: Blade 8 - Just an experiment with leftover materials and my first attempt at dyeing the handles and a logo. Beech/Birch ply/Beech - 98.5g - 5.0mm Blade 9 - An attempt at 1 ply blade. Seems to be fast, 1550 Hz on the bounce test and very springy. 1 ply Tola wood - 112.7g -...
  5. Question for Chinese rubbers

    Everyone says the B2 is very tacky, mine isn't tacky at all! Must be a fake...
  6. Wouldn't be interesting to have an allwood koto - kiri combination?

    Yes, that's the definition of custom. Of course if i build a guitar for me other people may not appreciate it as i do, and i'm ok with that. But what i was trying to say is that a builder can make a copy of a commercial guitar with much more quality than the original, and still be worth much...
  7. Wouldn't be interesting to have an allwood koto - kiri combination?

    Yeah, unfortunately people don't recognize that a custom made instrument is very often much better than a commercial one. But there is also a big factor, which is resale value. Custom instruments are much harder to sell than big brand guitars. I have made and sold a few guitars, but i was only...
  8. Pro's equipment at ETTC

    I'm surprised to see so many worn rubbers.
  9. October World Rankings 2018

    I think he meant all that are above Liam :D
  10. Wouldn't be interesting to have an allwood koto - kiri combination?

    I think one other problem is the cost of putting a new product on the market. Were i play the clubs have a discount on Donic products, so almost everybody plays with Donic, especially the Persson powerplay and the Bluefire rubbers, because that's what they can experiment. Trying new things...
  11. Wouldn't be interesting to have an allwood koto - kiri combination?

    GinjaNinja, you make valid points and i agree the market is smaller for more exotic woods. However, i didn't say it's because they are more expensive, i said it's cheaper to the manufacturers, resulting in a larger profit margin. They can buy them in bulk because they easily and readily...
  12. Wouldn't be interesting to have an allwood koto - kiri combination?

    Stiffness and hardness are different things. It's stiff enough, but it would be very soft.
  13. Wouldn't be interesting to have an allwood koto - kiri combination?

    Kiri it's almost like balsa, although it has double the weight and it's just a little stiffer, but gives a similar feeling to the blade, so it has to be used with care. I don't think a koto - kiri - kiri - kiri - kiri - kiri - kiri - koto would be that great, you would need a harder wood before...
  14. Blade Builders Thread

    Thanks for the suggestions GinjaNinja. I know it's really hard, but i tought that some of you may have worked with some of of these woods, so i gave it a try. To make mathers worse, the photos were taken without natural light, so they all have that golden hue. Regarding the weight, it's...
  15. Crack near handle, how to fix?

    I would just use very thin CA glue to stabilize the crack. Also, if you rotate the crack to the BH side (crack on the same side of the index finger) it would help reduce the stress in that area.
  16. Blade Builders Thread

    Can you help me identify these woods? I have the approximate weights and some guesses but i'm not sure: 1. 0,653 g/cm3. It's more greyish than it seems by the photo. I think 1 and 2 are the same species, just different parts of the tree. 2. 0,563 g/cm3 3. 0,604 g/cm3. My first quess was...
  17. SDC Handmade Blades

    4 more blades: Blade 4: Tola/Maple/Western Red Cedar/Maple/Tola - 79.8g - 5.5mm Blade 5: Oak/Maple/Western Red Cedar/Maple/Oak - 88.9g - 5.8mm Blade 6: Sucupira?/Tola/Engelmann spruce/Tola/Sucupira? - 95g - 5.7mm Blade 7: Iroko?/Maple/Kiri/MAple/Iroko? - 85.4g - 5.7mm
  18. Blade Builders Thread

    This seems like black limba: https://oakdalecrafts.co.uk/limba--frake--veneer-343-p.asp
  19. Blade Builders Thread

    Shopping day! Bought the 4 big ones for 13€, the small ones were freebies :D
  20. What's the cheapest euro-style tensor rubber?

    I think it's European.
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