From viscaria to donic

[el gato]

Hello i am interesting to buy a donic blade. I am interesting about Donic baum esprit. I read that play similar to butterfly alc blades and is not very expensive.
But never used before donic blades.
Do you believe worth a try?
how about quality of donic blades?
I am open to suggest me others blades


Now i play with viscaria and i am very satisfied but my blade damaged by accident.


thanks

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

Hello i am interesting to buy a donic blade. I am interesting about Donic baum esprit. I read that play similar to butterfly alc blades and is not very expensive.
But never used before donic blades.
Do you believe worth a try?
how about quality of donic blades?
I am open to suggest me others blades


Now i play with viscaria and i am very satisfied but my blade damaged by accident.


thanks

Try the Donic Ovtcharov True Carbon. That one is supposed to have pretty much identical playing characteristics to the Viscaria. That information comes from Baal who used Viscaria since 2007 and now uses the True Carbon as his blade of choice.


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[rokphish]

http://mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=56768&title=donic-baum-esprit

 

[Baal]

Another possibility but not from Donic is Tibhar Drinkhall blade. A bit pricier tnan True Carbon last time i checked.

 

[el gato]

thaks for your answers. i will give a try to true carbon and i will write a small review

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

The pros will say, just take a viscaria blade and put a donic handle on

 

[Baal]

The pros will say, just take a viscaria blade and put a donic handle on

And then give it a cool name like True Carbon, and since you already market 35 blades with Dima's name on it, why not go for 36?

 

[scoops]

And then give it a cool name like True Carbon, and since you already market 35 blades with Dima's name on it, why not go for 36?

Thought I'd ask as you seen my post on me trying an viscaria. I use Drinkhall carbon and what I like about it is the feeling/vibration you get on contact. Do you reckon the viscaria has similar 'feeling' but with softer top veneer?? Or the Donic you use now even, I love the feeling of the drinkhall but rather would have little softer outer veneer, am I making sense? (ask the wife probably not) but I hope so.

 

[Baal]

To be honest, my best estimate is these blades are all pretty much the same with minor variations because they are made of wood. If you like your current blade, dont bother buying one of these. I like the vibration feel you describe for your Drinkhall very much and it is how I would describe Viscaria, ZJK ALC, and DTC. Also they are not excessively fast (althoubh I am staring to tnink that MX-P may come close to making them too fast). The last two blades come in very good ST handles, which is only reason I tried them.

 

[Baal]

By the way, somebldy posted photos showing clearly that the outer koto ply is thinner on DTC than Viscaria. I just dont think it matters much to how it plays, which actually is a bit surprising.