Butterfly Tiago Apolonia ZLC or Butterfly Viscaria (Normal and Fish Scale Surface)

Spinonspin said:

Is Kenta Matsudaira ALC better than Viscaria?

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In this context, I think the term better is a bit hard to answer. Since a person’s judgement of how a blade feels and/or performs is subjective. One person may like one blade or handle more. Another may like another blade or handle more.

The main difference between all those ALC Koto blades is the handle (and perhaps there are minor differences in the shape of the blade face for one or two of them).

If there is a specific handle you like more, that is the one you should choose.

But if you had 10 Viscarias, 10 ZJK ALCs and 10 Matsudairas, they would feel more similar than different and the biggest differences you would feel would be in different weights. So if there was a 90 gram Viscaria and an 80 gram Viscaria the 90 gram Viscaria would feel much more like the 90 gram ZJK or Matsudaira than it would feel like the 80 gram Viscaria.

Hopefully that makes sense.


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I have seen Facebook pictures from @Matt Hetherington where he is using Apolonia ... may be he can pitch in ...

Spinonspin said:

Is Kenta Matsudaira ALC better than Viscaria?

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I haven't tried one but have read that the handle is small and thin.