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Ahh yes, I forgot about Yinhe! :) With Stuor I'd be concerned whether or not it's genuine Kiso Hinoki.

Some manufacturers have stopped making Kiso Hinoki blades, mainly due to materials shortages making it much more expensive and probably no longer viable. Darker discontinued the Speed 90 for this reason, although there still seem to be some available (possible old stock?). So my question is...

Do you mean the rubber is different from different batches? How much difference?

What a lot of people liked about the original Golden Tango (not the PS), was how sticky it was, and how it retained the stickiness over time. You normally only see this on Chinese topsheet, and even those are getting more rare. A shame it's discontinued, it was popular here as well, but...

Same here!!! :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

Euro usually means softer sponge.

Avalox P700 is like a clipper with an even softer feel. Balsa blades are also stiff with a very soft feel, but they're play quite different to non-balsa blades, which you'll either love or hate.... hard to say until you try one. :ROFLMAO:

Great, yet another expensive device that's going to disqualify every rubber that's factory boosted, which is perfectly legal.

In my experience tsp curl p1r 0.6 would be the best in producing heavy backspin with chopping loops.

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That does make me wonder about the value of the TT Gearlab measurement parameters. Perhaps the small differences in their numbers are far more significant that they appear to be?

If you're considering a blade with the Waldner name, also look at the Waldner Off World Champion 89. High quality blade, made in Germany, very smooth shaped milled handle, and is considerably cheaper.

Looks like someone added some 'banding' around the edges, either to prevent damage or add weight. It would certainly change the properties of the original blade, so it's not really the same blade anymore. Of course that does not mean it's not good... some may prefer it that way, other may not.

Thank you. That's pretty much how I do it as well, but I use the old Butterfly foam cleaner. I find that mine does not get tackier though, it just maintains the tack for much longer. Do you put the adhesive protector on when the rubber is still wet from cleaning, or do you let it dry? I'm now...

No it's not, the trajectory at different speeds is quite different compared to 09C.

I'm curious what maintenance you're doing to increase the tackiness? If it's getting tackier it's probably changing it's performance, as the tack usually does slow down the ball.

I've had it with DHS No 15 as well, it just turned into the solid mass, with a foul ammonia smell. o_O

I think it's closer to 09C but less lively. It has a really hard sponge (like the harder H3) but the topsheet is soft and sticky, much softer and stickier than either the H3 or D09C, which makes it play quite different.

That doesn't say anything about marking the sponge, it just says you can't glue on a different sponge.

Right on topic as usual (n)