Gewo Aruna Hinoki Carbon Composition?

[golden_son]

Does anyone know the composition of this blade? It seems to be a Gewo-made version of the old JOOLA Aruna Off (which in turn was a rebranded JOOLA Rossi Emotion), but I can't find confirmation anywhere of the medial plies or carbon type; only Gewo's stated hinoki top ply and "softer wood core."

I'm very curious if the carbon layer is any different and if the second ply is still koto.

 

[\_Kairos_/]

Composition is:
Hinoki - Koto - Carbon - Ayous (core) - Carbon - Koto - Hinoki

So, yes, this is essentially a rebranded Rossi Emotion, just a different design.

 

[golden_son]

Composition is:
Hinoki - Koto - Carbon - Ayous (core) - Carbon - Koto - Hinoki

So, yes, this is essentially a rebranded Rossi Emotion, just a different design.

Can I ask where you found that? I did a lot of digging before posting here and couldn't find anything.

Any idea if the carbon layer is the same material?

 

[\_Kairos_/]

Can I ask where you found that? I did a lot of digging before posting here and couldn't find anything.

Any idea if the carbon layer is the same material?

I'm assuming you mean this one, with the green-black handle...

Gewo Aruna Hinoki Carbon Test: Eigenschaften & Vergleiche

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Just scroll down a little bit; there is a picture of the box. The composition is printed on one side of the box.
It is also very likely that it is regular carbon and not some hybrid-fiber such as Arylate/Aramid-Carbon or Zylon-Carbon. If it were ALC, ZLC or whatever, Gewo would have printed that sort of info on the box.
As I said: Rebranded Rossi Emotion.

 

[Marvinn8686]

There is a lot of inconsistency in the internet over Joola Aruna OFF and Joola Rossi Emotion.
J Rossi Emotion and J Aruna OFF on revspin are both listed as having kiri core.
On tt blades DB the JRE has Ayous core and JAO kiri.
The tt-test.de link says it is ayous for Gewo Aruna Hinoki OFF.

 

[\_Kairos_/]

Well, as for inconsistency regarding the composition of a blade, I do remember that years and years ago, the Viscaria was said to have a balsa core (Megaspin had that wrong info for years on their website), probably because someone didn't know the difference between balsa and kiri.
Unfortunately I'm old enough to remember people telling others on forums that the Vis would have a balsa core and referred to the incorrect Megaspin info ("Dude, Megaspin says the Vis has a balsa core, so it must be true...).
That being said, some of the reviews on revspin you find verbatim also on the corresponding Megaspin reviews, which means that one would have to take info from revspin with some grain of salt.

Anyway, one would just have to look at the pictures available and see that the JRE has an ayous core. There is absolutely no doubt about it, and if Gewo prints the exact composition on the box of the Hinoki Carbon Off, then we can be pretty sure that it's correct. It is also very likely that Gewo printed the composition on the boxes of the other Aruna blades. As for the Joola Aruna Off, I just took a look at some pictures, and this one indeed has a kiri core.

For me, perhaps the most interesting difference between the Joola and the Gewo Aruna blades are these "side paint jobs" of the Gewo blades, which prevents seeing the "inside" of the blade. I believe three of them have this green paint or glue and one has a white/natural colour that even goes along the handle. Nittaku Flyatt blades have something similar.
If we were really really nitpicky or overly pedantic, these blades would actually be "illegal" or at least in some grey area. But I'm neither with the ITTF nor an umpire, so I don't care much about it. It's just a funny little observation.

 

[Marvinn8686]

Well, as for inconsistency regarding the composition of a blade, I do remember that years and years ago, the Viscaria was said to have a balsa core (Megaspin had that wrong info for years on their website), probably because someone didn't know the difference between balsa and kiri.
Unfortunately I'm old enough to remember people telling others on forums that the Vis would have a balsa core and referred to the incorrect Megaspin info ("Dude, Megaspin says the Vis has a balsa core, so it must be true...).
That being said, some of the reviews on revspin you find verbatim also on the corresponding Megaspin reviews, which means that one would have to take info from revspin with some grain of salt.

Anyway, one would just have to look at the pictures available and see that the JRE has an ayous core. There is absolutely no doubt about it, and if Gewo prints the exact composition on the box of the Hinoki Carbon Off, then we can be pretty sure that it's correct. It is also very likely that Gewo printed the composition on the boxes of the other Aruna blades. As for the Joola Aruna Off, I just took a look at some pictures, and this one indeed has a kiri core.

For me, perhaps the most interesting difference between the Joola and the Gewo Aruna blades are these "side paint jobs" of the Gewo blades, which prevents seeing the "inside" of the blade. I believe three of them have this green paint or glue and one has a white/natural colour that even goes along the handle. Nittaku Flyatt blades have something similar.
If we were really really nitpicky or overly pedantic, these blades would actually be "illegal" or at least in some grey area. But I'm neither with the ITTF nor an umpire, so I don't care much about it. It's just a funny little observation.

I agree the website like revspin or TT blades are useful, but prone to errors as they just rely on user submissions (and megaspin just takes a lot of comments directly from revspin). The sticker from original blade box visible on tt-test.de is clearly more trustworthy if manufacturer is willing to give such information. Thanks for detailed info, these blades looks interesting to me. I saw some time ago Joola Rossi Emotion on secondhand offer in good price, I should have bought it.

 

[xeiter]

I do not know the exact details about compositions.

However, what I can say is that I did have and played with Rossi Emotion before and now playing with Gewo Aruna Hinoki Carbon OFF.

These two blades feel very different to me. I have always liked softer top layers on blades and Rossi Emotion was not for me at all for some reason - didn't feel good to play unfortunately.

After I tried Aruna it felt like home. Before these two blades I was using Cornilleau Hinotec Off which is an all wood hinoki top layer blade. It was great for me but I needed something a bit more faster for high impact shots hence tried the carbon blades and stuck with Aruna for now.