Help recommend closest blade to viscaria

Baal said:

Not a Taksim. The construction of that blade (if you can find one) was more like the Iolite. The inner core is much thicker and the blade is stiffer.

Edit. I see someone already mentioned that. Sorry. TB-ALC would be reasonably close, or a ZJK-ALC if you can find it in CS grip.

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Baal said:

Depends on which ones you get and weight I think. There is blade-to-blade variation in all of these. I have owned four ZJK-ALC blades (too many, I should probably sell them). Two of them were very similar to your usual Viscaria pretty much, and not too different from a TB-ALC, but two were softer, slower, and lighter as you said (oddly enough both of those two had ST handles). I have never seen a TB-ALC that was as slow and soft those two ZJK-ALCs. All the same we are not talking huge differences, and it would be pretty easy to adapt. I have seen quite a few TB-ALCs that are a little bit crisper feeling than a Viscaria, but not all of them.

I think the main difference is the handle shape, which is pretty important actually; people underestimate its effects on how they play.

Of course, I have no idea how a CS version of one of these blades plays.

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