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Fair, maybe I should include a hyperbole warning in the future. My experience and the experience of my peers and superiors is that professional atheletes absolutely can get stuff pretty wrong. A lot of them have no clue how the sausage is made either, and they will tell you insane stuff that...

I figured, but I think you ought to rather try to find something easier to find, like the Holy Grail, or maybe Pandora's Box or something.

I think it's discontinued and hard to get, but in a literal sense, the Allround Classic Carbon seems like one of the closest things to a "wood blade feel with carbon in it". Not sure what advantages it has over the wood versions, though.

If you didn't know how T05 performs, would you have spent the money on it?

I must say I admire your dedication to your schizophrenic crusade against sponge boosting. You could use your time for something much better, but instead you've been the rubber manufacturers' and ITTF's lapdog for well over a decade, for apparently no personal gain.

I never claimed so, mostly because I don't believe that people are feeling changes that haven't happened. They're more likely feeling an actual change that has happened. The most obvious thing that comes to mind is a different glue surface adhesion, because last I checked we don't commonly...

You could lab test it if you want. Very likely it's a wax based wood varnish. No surface treatment should do anything to the feeling, that's just not how springs like this work. It could change the surface CF if you were hitting the ball bare with no covering, varnishes and waxes tend to be a...

Why not? You just buy it from the suppliers. Do you think Butterfly has some R&D lab where they're producing new elements? Feeling is a function of vibration frequency which is a function of stiffness. Sealing a blade does not, as far as measurements go, change any of its stiffnesses or...

It's very much so possible to change the shear strength of a material without changing its bending stiffness and so on. I can also assure you that the public has access to any kind of material that manufacturers do, this isn't some kind of security cleared, export-restricted good.

Factory pre-boosted sponges seem to have some kind of protective layer that prolongs it. Maybe some kind of stabilizer treatment. That being said, I did leave a H3N sitting for almost 3 years and it had 0 booster effect left when I tried it again. It was noticeably bouncier new. Has never been...

The factory booster will gas out in a month or so, so it may have been coincidence if it didn't just suddenly change. That being said I would avoid re-gluing if possible just to minimize chance of gluing errors. It's probably more difficult to get a perfect adhesion if there's already glue in...

You're probably right about it being ideal to never re-glue, but I'm personally not so worried about it. When I glued on this Vega Europe DF sheet, I messed it up and used too little glue (Norisuke-san is pretty liquid...) and it was dramatically loose at many spots. I noted how it plays before...

Not all symbols are actually the same. You may have been copy-pasting special symbols like : or / which are not actually the same ones as the website expects, which sometimes leads to them being deleted or changed.

I'd have to agree. The finish is kind of bad on the SPW, and the amount of times I've hit it on the table seems to correspond with the amount of dents it has. The Allround Evo was abused much more and it still looked brand new after years and years. In my hands, this blade will be completely...

Funnily I had an Allround Evolution that never got as much as a scratch, but I've chipped off a few parts of my Stratus Power Wood already in a month or so. Both sealed, but I suspect the job was pretty light on the SPW; I didn't do it myself. It should be a similar composition outer ply of the...

Gluing yes as it can change the tension on the sponge or stretch it, boosting obviously, mass obviously. Sealing, not really. It doesn't change the performance curves at all as far as testing goes. It doesn't change the physical properties either, like the natural frequencies and spring...

Nobody on the planet notices a difference in a blind test. High level players are typically sponsored and replace blades every couple weeks, they don't even keep them long enough to get damage.

I suspect the rubbers will influence it more than the blade does ultimately. My H3 is unboosted and old so it's not terribly elastic anymore. It can produce quality shots but it takes everything I have. I will be testing the new blade with fresh Battle II, and while I know it's not good to...

That's really surprising to me, given that people describe the Stratus Power Wood as "a little bit faster than Korbel". So the Fextra 7 would be a step in the other direction then. I'll probably just need to try them all and see for myself. Luckily the Sanwei blades are on the cheaper end...

The Stratus Power Wood is a little bit too controlled for me after getting back into the game for a few weeks now, so I was thinking to eventually end up playing with either a Fextra 7 or Clipper Wood, although for now I'm going to try out a Sanwei Fextra 5X inner carbon and see how I get along...