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JRSDallas 
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 Topic: Boll TriCarbonPosted: 01/12/2009 at 6:28pm |
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I've just received a Boll TriCarbon since I was interested in seeing how it played. Man -- it weighs 100 grams. I am assuming that I got the heaviest one in stock since the specifications on the blade say it normally weighs 95 grams.
If anyone else has a Boll TriCarbon, how much does yours weigh?
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tdragon
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Posted: 01/12/2009 at 6:33pm |
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Boll TriCarbon is heavy. I have seen it as 89 and 92 grs.
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bozbrisvegas
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Posted: 01/12/2009 at 6:40pm |
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I went through a stage of using the fastest possible setup, it worked in lower divisions but there is very little control and your arm takes a real long time to recover or even do any stroke. It forced me into playing the way it wanted, not the way I wanted.
I bought 1 at 95g then kept cutting it down until I got to about 85g a managable weight and then found I had to play carefully since I little surface area.
For some crazy reason about 6 months later I tried it with different rubbers and loved it again, so I bought another 1. Again I realised it was too hard, So i ended up splitting it right down the centre of the plies, easy to do since its balsa against carbon. I stuck the top veneer with the carbon on to my barricade dr neubauer which is a super slow light blade. I just took off one side of the cork handle and glue the boll veneer onto this. I have played with the blade but it feels a bit rough.
I wanted to try the fastes with the slowest blade, the result was I made an allround blade, because ultimately both sides of the blade give speed not just the side you are hitting.
If you like that super artificial fast feeling but with out 20grams, a little slower, tons more control and feeling a bit softer, try ishlion
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metalone
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Posted: 01/12/2009 at 8:29pm |
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Mine is 86 grams, very light for what it is listed as. I purchased it from Paddle Pallace a month ago and asked for the lightest one available. I spoke with a few friends that played with it in the past and they all said theirs were around 95. I like how it plays and the control isn't that bad, but could be slower, due to the lower weight? |
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JRSDallas
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Posted: 01/12/2009 at 11:53pm |
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I had an Ishlion at 76 grams but sold it because it was too light. I like my blades to be 86 grams to 91 grams and I really like 90 grams.
Currently I am using a Schlager Carbon at 91 grams with Tenergy 25 and Sriver G3 for a total weight of 179 grams -- just about the perfect weight (but I wish it was Tenergy 64).
The TriCarbon at 100 grams really limits the rubbers I can use and I don't want to sand it down and make it small.
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pongcrazy
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Posted: 01/13/2009 at 11:58am |
I recently sold my B3C that also weighed 86 grams. That's about the lightest I've seen them.
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Posted: 01/14/2009 at 4:43am |
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Dallas, to me 100g doesn't sound that exceptional. Mine was 102g. I sold it after a few days but I actually didn't think it was a bad blade, it just wasn't particularly good either...
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mdjenders
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Posted: 01/14/2009 at 8:59pm |
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weight makes a huge difference in blades' performance. i once owned 2 different kreanga carbons. first one was 92g and played quite fast. second one was 86g and was noticeably softer feeling, had more vibrations, and slower.
stiga blades are all over the place in terms of wt. i used an off classic 88g for a while, and it played like all the other off classics i have tried. then i used another one that was 77g! it played slow like an allround classic. this is why most places will be happy to weigh blades in stock to pick one that suits you. otherwise you run the risk of getting a strange outlier! |
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Nutriment6464
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Posted: 01/14/2009 at 9:36pm |
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Below 90 is too light for me. It depends of the playing style, but 100 for a tricarbon is pretty heavy, I know they say 95, but I believe it's possible to have one below 90.
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