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I never used P7 but I really enjoyed Adidas's Tenzone Ultra. So much so I bought like 6 sheets when I heard Adidas was not selling anymore. I've long since used them and retired them, but really enjoyed the feel.

This puts her back to 2700 after beating Yijun Feng.

For all of my templates, I took images of blades from the web, traced them using Inkscape, made sure the dimensions were precisely right for every part of the tracing, and then had them lasercut at Ponoko.com. There was some trial-and-error involved here and my first templates were definitely...

Point taken :p

Who is judging? I just don't like overpriced stuff made with cheap materials. Material cost for any of these ALC blades is around $10 USD, probably less in the bulk that Butterfly buys its materials. Why pay $250 USD for one of them? I admittedly used to also, but once I started making...

Surprised people are so enamored with an ash wood handle with some paint on it. I'll take the fabulous burl woods and other figured woods that I use on my custom blades, thanks ;)

Unfortunately that reason is mostly that Chinese girls such as Shi Xunyao haven't 5 junior events in the last year (She finoshed 2nd in each of the major events she entered), as evidenced by this...

The only surprise really in my opinion is Lily didn't finish 2nd. Juan Liu was virtually certain to win. She'd never previously lost to any of the players (including Lily) that were part of the RR, and she'd won the last two Westchester tournaments beating 2700 level male players. Amy has...

That is probably pretty close. She finished runner up in the last two junior events she entered including the Golden event in China where she lost to the #2 rated Chinese cadet, Chen Yi in the finals. In February she played 3 US cadet girls in the Junior event held in Sweden. She beat them...

For me, tacky rubbers such as Genesis II are less spin sensitive in the short game such as pushes, touch shots close to the net etc, as they don't have such a bouncy reaction to them. However, the cost in this is some loss of top end speed if you don't properly engage your core when hitting...

Suga: Good to know :) I still liked it :)

I've tried the Genesis II, both the M and S versions and liked it quite a bit. I intend to buy the Blue Grip shortly and try it as well. I've been almost primarily using ESN rubbers the last several years (Donic Bluestorm, Joola Rhyzer, Gewo Nexxus EL Pro and XT Pro, Stiga Mantra, etc)...

Yea higher hz = higher pitch noise which in general = more stiff. In general stiffer blades are faster. There is a lot of good discussion on this here: https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/showthread.php?18950-Numerical-Analysis-of-table-tennis-blades

Been quite a while since I posted anything as I took a while off from blade making. However recently a few of my all-wood blades from middle of last year sold to some coworkers, so I decided to build some new blades. The latest creation is below, a 3+2 blade with Kiso Hinoki 1.2mm as the top...

That's what it looks like. Given the thickness of the spruce top ply, and the thickness of the core, I gather it is still within the legal standards of at least 85% of the blade being wood. All of those plies look very thick (much more than a 0.6mm veneer that is typically used for plies aside...

That looks like Textreme ZLC. Very cool. I gather that plays extremely stiff with a spruce top ply, and a basalt ply as well even with he ZLC. That has to be an absolute rocket of a blade.

Nate I just bought two different innegra hybrids....textreme innegra, and another, both off composite envisions. I plan to try one of them shortly.

I've also used Epoxy Resin for wood layers and not just with Carbon and found it worked well. I recently made a blade that the head pro at my club bought that instead of PU between the top and medial ply, I just continued to use Epoxy Resin. He absolutely loves the blade and just asked me to...

Been busy making a few blades lately. The last blade I posted my coach liked so much he bought it as soon as I showed it to him. He put Tenergy 05 on it, and says its an absolute dream to play with. Really controllable with a huge sweet spot, and really lively with a significant extra gear on...

That is strange, because they have the exact same composition and according to butterfly are within 0.1mm of each other in terms of thickness, so the composition difference is negligible at best, identical most likely with a different name on the front of the blade Butterfly is notorious for...