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No, several thicknesses coexist. The last TB ALC I held was 5.8mm, I’ve seen Viscarias half a mm thicker and ZJK ALCs slightly thinner than the TB. The Inner Layer ALC.S even thinner, 5.4mm or so. Especially noticable in balance and flex. The TB ALC (with its ultrathin handle) is medium stiff...

I have no spec sheet, but there certainly are differences. - Different wood layers (koto or limba outers) - Different layer thicknesses - Maybe even differing grain orientations? - Different glue process - Differen handles - Different ALC types (blue, yellow) - Different brands/pricepoint (so...

I just went to ye olde locale painte shoppe, borrowed their colour meter and had them mix me some matt alkyd paint (Wijzonol) matching the existing colour, which in the Sikkens colour coding is N8.10.20. I'll try to use that to touch up the filled-in pits first, and see how that looks.

This thread is all I managed to dig up when searching for some guidance on table top paints. I know the table "(..) playing surface shall be uniformly dark coloured and matt, but with a white side line, 2cm wide, along each 2.74m edge and a white end line, 2cm wide, along each 1.525m edge."...

Yes, it puts me squarely in the 80s, I know. I'll be checking that footage again. One of my team mates spins everything, and expressed his regret about missing the flat kill in his arsenal; he felt he had a much harder time. Maybe so. Maybe not.

Well, that player is a national level player over here of the I-pretend-to-be-the-wall type. That's why I'm taking risk, often too much, to prevent him from getting into that groove. I'm not just rushing it, I'm also deliberately slowing down. Bear in mind, I got spotted 14 points in this...

Watching the footage again, with all the stupid mistakes and the obvious drawback of having that old corpse to lug around, I'm getting a little less harsh vis a vis these matches against twiddlin', messin', pushblockin' LP wizards. That kind of play just makes attackers' errors look clumsy and...

It is now. It starts out with my first match. Which does make me cringe, and I haven't even seen the three matches I lost there yet. It's not the sweating like a pig thing, it's so many obvious improvements to make, and so many obvious mistakes to avoid.

The Antichist. The Ladykiller. The Zodiac Spinner. Herr Flick. Daddy Longlegs. The Spiderwoman. The Blue Angel. Agent Orange. The Willing Sinner. It’s not that hard to come up with cool sounding fun nicknames. As long as you don’t bother a second thought as to their meaning. Or more, their...

Best "Cheap" rubber for forehand??? Speedgluing is done by using thick layers of rubber cement. I remember pros doing it every day before matches, slapping the rubbers on while still wet with glue. Never did it myself. Life’s too short for that hassle.

I was doing some computations, varying the table curve. The downward curve is not so suitable, I think, for the little plastic ball. It gets very low very fast, the more so once you imagine a ball with some topspin on it. A slight upward curve may be interesting, though. Magic pushblock like...

In your General Settings there's a "Forum Skin" preference, but I don't think it does anything. No matter what I change it to, it sticks to "Use Form Default". That being said, it's probably quite easy to override the site's stylesheets with your own. It will take a bit of hackery, and the...

Way back when, we used a bit of steam to get dented balls back in shape. That D40+ pictured above is simply too far gone. FUBAR.

Well, I’d play it if I came across a table.

Yes, there have been great blades. Revered still, and fondly remembered. There have also been lesser ones. Maybe we remember selectively, and would do well to remember this. Pretty much like now. A lot of very good blades exist, probably built with a lot less handcraft involved and the pros...

Yes, we can measure and obtain results that will no doubt get misinterpreted and/or overgeneraluzed. In time, we might even sophisticate things and have robot execute different actual strokes with sound consistency and near absolute reproducability. And measure velocity, exit angle, rpm. We’re...

Deep, yet very tangential contact in an explosive movement using that surface area that carries the most momentum (usually the blade top).

I actually don’t think it’s as simple as that. The way you contact the ball matters a lot, and a rubber that easily creates much spin on a light brush may have very different spin characteristics when making deeper contact. Once upon a time when my world was young I used to play with Mark V...

The "old" blades - still a valid option or not Our current club champion uses a Alser Allround, with Sriver. And he’s a fast and aggressive offender. My blade and rubbers (inner layer alc, koto outers, Rozena) would be considered middle of the roadish by many here, but is still a...

That question for an uncomfortable amount equates to: are you super spinny?