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It's natural wood, Padauk to be precise. But in that case the end grain is facing up, which is not usual, normally the grain runs parallel to the wood plies. Putting the wood in that position has some benefits, visually it's much more beautiful, it provides greater sweat absorption because the...

Two different things happening here, absorption and texture. It is a plastic so it does not absorb sweat, that's a given. However, they leave the material with some texture, not completely smooth, and that gives some security in the grip. With the tools I have it's not possible for me to do it...

Correct. Every thin line you see is the glue interface between two veneers. You can see this in almost every commercial handle nowadays. Fineline can also be stacked horizontally, creating a different look. This can be seen for example in the old Viscarias vs the new ones. By the way, I don't...

I just made an addition to the "Nerdy Stuff" section on my website about the most commonly used handle materials and their characteristics. Dealing with a lot of customers over the years, I found that there's a general lack of knowledge/confusion about this subject, probably because there isn't...

#1387 - Outer BS - OFF-/OFF I remember before starting this blade making thing, many people believed that Vis had a Balsa core. It doesn't, the core is Kiri and I think it's pretty well established nowadays (although many people still believe the medial is Limba, but that's a different...

#1386 - 5+3 - OFF-/OFF Collectively, both sides of this blade have the same amount of fiber (which is the normal situation). However, in this case, on what I designed to be the Fh side, there are two fiber layers instead of one. On the Bh side, there is a 180 g/m2 Kevlar fabric under the top...

#1378 - Asymmetric - ALL+/DEF Another asymmetric blade, but this time with a more defensive style in mind. The Bh side has no fiber, as some of the blades I posted lately, but I used a combination of cork and balsa to make it as dampening as possible and still retaining a woody feeling. I also...

The second paragraph was related to a completely different situation, I was replying to the comment that golden_son made about using a composite layer as the "core".

That was a coincidence 🙂 . This handle was only born because I made the mirrored one for a customer (blue outside, yellow inside). I would compare it more to a slighlty slower Freitas, but it doesn't matter anyway, it has been sold 😅.

#1371 - Outer IC - OFF-/OFF Not the first time I put one of these here, a controllable, spin oriented outer fiber blade. Medium stiff, soft, stable and with a linear response. Available FS. - Limba / IC / Limba / Kiri core - 86.1g - 5.9mm - 157x150mm - FL (100x25.0-23.5mm) - Balance: 3.0cm (Med)

I'm working on order 123.

Someone heard you, it's gone 😅

1335Hz. If I do recall correctly, yes it is faster.

#1366 - Asymmetric Inner/Inner - OFF- Another asymmetric blade but this time with a more offensive pedigree. The Bh side is based on a Rossi emotion, it has a slightly harder feeling but at the same time a bit slower. The Fh side is softer, but it has more speed potential, so you get more power...

The stable feeling in a blade doesn't come from the outer ply, it comes from the medial ply and core. The Violin uses White Ash outer and medial layers, which is a fairly hard and stiff wood. The blade you tried probably had a nicely dense core too. This all adds up to what you described, but...

#1367 - Asymmetric Inner/Outer - OFF/ALL+ No, it's not the same blade as the previous one, but we can consider it its big brother. The philosophy and structure are very similar to #1359, but I wanted to make it slightly more offensive. As I always say to my customer, we cannot fully isolate the...

#1359 - Asymmetric Inner/Inner - OFF-/ALL This is an asymmetric blade, made with a specific playtstyle in mind: chop blocking with SP on the BH to create an opening, then finalizing the point with the Fh. The Fh side was designed more for smashing/driving, rather than looping, so I used a dense...

#1353 - 5 ply - OFF- Another experiment, this time with tension. Tension in a blade is usually a big no no, if the structure isn't fully symmetrical, a small force imbalance is enough to make the blade warp. As such, this is a very delicate process and it would be totally impossible to...

#1340 - Inner AxC - OFF+ "Aren't inner blades supposed to be slower?" Well, not always 😅. I wanted to make something stiff and fast but with a soft touch, without the use of Hinoki wood. Available FS. - Ayous / Spruce / AxC / Kiri core - 88.3g - 7.4mm - 154x148mm - FL (100x23.0mm) - Balance...

Ok, there are two separate situations here. The premise was to make the core as stiff as possible, which was achieved. The other situation was to see the influence of said core on the speed and feeling of the blade. It's not that it failed, it is what it is, it's just that my expectation was...