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Spin and more spin.
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Spin and more spin.
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So stiga blades is to forget, throw money into the air for a few months after having to buy another
It sounds like, for you, that is a good solution: to forget about Stiga blades. But it is not because why you seem to think. When they play well, they don't necessarily break. Some do. Some don't. It is that the finish details are really bad which gives the impression that the product is cheaper than it should be.
I asked Stiga repeatedly about their finish and they just told me that the blades are not made smooth intentionally and it is for the player to sand them. Whatever reasons they have, I do not know.
If that was the real reason, why do they have lenses put in at the wrong angle or higher than the wood on one side, not flush.
The bottom of the handle on most Clipper blades is cut at a 90° angle. This makes it so you can balance the blade standing. I got one where the angle was totally off so that one side of the handle was longer than the other. And this angle was on an odd bias so that, on the FH side, near the side where your index finger would be pointing was the shortest part of the handle.
Now it didn't affect play, so I ignored it. But it did look like the person who made the final cut on the handle had too much to drink or something.
So there is no way that some of the details Stiga messes up on are because they respect their customers and feel the customer has the right to do the finishing themselves.
No matter how you look at it, a botched cut on a lens cut out that makes it not sit right, a botched application of a lens so that half the Stiga label is missing because the lens was put in wrong, a botched cut on a handle that makes the handle uneven, none of those can be put down to Stiga wanting their clients to do the finishing.
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