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People still use all wood blades, who would have thought?![]()
This is a classic 5 ply composition, similar to Korbel, that I made for a former team mate.
Composition: Limba / Ayous / Ayous / Ayous / Limba
Thickness: 5.9 mmWeight: 86.8 g
Head Size: 158x152 mm
Freq.: 1290 Hz
Balance: 2.9 cm
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Very nice, that's exactly the same composition as Stiga AllRound Classic.
What do you think of this compo:
Limba
Ayous
Ayous
Ayous Core
Ayous
Limba
Can be a mix of Stiga AllRound Classic & Clipper. Could be good for me: one side push-blocker & the other topspin?
Very nice, that's exactly the same composition as Stiga AllRound Classic.
What do you think of this compo:
Limba
Ayous
Ayous
Ayous Core
Ayous
Limba
Can be a mix of Stiga AllRound Classic & Clipper. Could be good for me: one side push-blocker & the other topspin?
Yes, but the allround classic is much thinner.
6 plies? What would be the purpose of this?
Also, technically, with a 6 ply blade, and there are a few out there, the core would be the two middle most plies. If you tried to make one of those two plies thicker than the other, you would be creating something that would be very weird and would not have the effect I think you are hoping for.
There have been 6 ply blades that were put on the market. I can't think of any that have not been discontinued.
My guess is, your idea would be to make one side (BH side) like a 5 ply blade (slower - note, that is not quite what happens with a 5 ply blade) and one side like a 7 ply blade (thinking that wold be faster for FH side). But you would get something else from that if you did not make the two innermost plies the same thickness which is, a blade that is unstable because the ply closes to the core is more on one side of the blade than the other.
So, it would have to be this:
Limba
Ayous
Ayous Core same thickness as next ply
Ayous Core same thickness as previous ply
Ayous
Limba
Or you would have something that would feel pretty bad.
Yes, but the allround classic is much thinner.
6 plies? What would be the purpose of this?
Combi blade one side slow & the other faster.
I'm making some blades for a friend of Der_Echte and he is mainly interested in combination blades with drastically different properties on each side - it's a tough to create a blade with dissimilar playing properties on each side while also making sure to create a stable piece of wood.
I've done a considerable amount of reading about ply-wood construction and best practices to maintain a "balanced" construction (e.g., an odd number of plies is preferred), but there is so little information on how far you can push certain factors out of balance before the ply-wood starts to experience negative consequences (e.g., warp). For example, would some glues provide more resistance to warp (surely those with less creep would be better, right)? Would a fiber layer make the entire panel more resistant to warp? Even thickness of wood layers is in-line with best practices for a stable/balanced panel, but how much thicker can you get away with? Woods differ in dimensional stability, so how could you maintain a balanced ply-wood panel AND use different woods?
In the past, I've made combi-blades with the order of outer- and medial- plies switched on one side, which I consider very little risk in regard to creating an unbalanced panel. I've also created one with the outer- and medial-plies switched AND a different glue between the outer and medial plies on one side - this seems slightly riskier and more likely to result in warp (though the blade seems unaffected 1.5 years later). Thus far, I haven't tried drastically different woods on each side or different thicknesses, but I am getting curious about what I could get away with. I'm thinking about trying out a carbon-aramid core with completely different woods on each side (albeit, I will keep the thickness of each layer mirrored on each side). Thoughts on the viability of this design?
Combi blade one side slow & the other faster.
Like what Carl said, it doesn't work that way. And I can tell you that even theoretically, that composition wouldn't cause significant differences between sides.
Why people don't make 3 ply blades?
Why people don't make 3 ply blades?
Sorry but I'm a bit distracted by the background...
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How do you do the coloring of the wood for handles?.. Such saturated colors... I'm interesting in this process..