The Way of the Butterflies

liulin04 wrote: wow, awesome collection!!!

Thank you. I am glad you like it.

Time to move a little bit forward... Since we just had the Des Douglas we should not forget the other player...







Edited by Timo1978 - 02/17/2015 at 1:07pm

Timo1978 wrote: 17. Butterfly Topspin   Weight: 77 Gramms Sized: 16,2/15,3cm "Light and Soft Hinocki feeling for Topspin Players" The Topspin is regular sized and a little bit faster than Butterfly Tarles. Produced in the 1980ies with old tag and red sticker.       Nice blade! I had Butterfly Agnes Simon with the same looking. It is not hinoki, but abachi and koto.

in2spin wrote: tarles had a varnished conical handle :)

@ in2spin: Yes, you are right. Tarles = CO and FL
@ kolevtt: Yes, you caught me, i was wrong

Edited by Timo1978 - 01/16/2014 at 2:26pm

18. Butterfly Klampar

Weight:68 Gramms Sized: 16,5/15,5cm
Came with old tag and was available in AN/FL/ST and CO handle. The top ply of the Klampar is very sensitive, not a good blade for Klampars Invention of fresh-glueing
The Blade is not stiff but has soft reaction to supply Topspins. The head is larger than the standard bat and yet lighter.
Klampar was a real rebel, he got banned several times by the hungarian association for leaving the Players camp without permission when he was visiting the western european countries due to tournaments....



Edited by Timo1978 - 02/22/2015 at 4:46am

it is a very fantastic collection

in2spin wrote: it is a very fantastic collection maybe different in europe?  but i thought the firehand had a dark wooden handle with a silver name badge with black lettering?  the one pictured here was black lacquered like the kenny model also, anybody remember the slower version gergely racket with the three grooves on one side of the handle? :)

There is a "Firehand Style" and two Versions of "Firehand"....
One of These was only made for US market..
Maybe you will see them soon...

Gergely if i remember right there was one with metallic sign on top of the handle, the oldest one, the one from my post, both were without Carbon, the Gergely Tamca5000er without font on head and lager head (1. Version) Gergely Tamca 5000er Modell with Font on blades head, the Gergely 21 and the Gergely Alpha...    

19. Butterfly Elegance

Weight: 79 Gramms Sized: 15,4/15,0cm
With old font on blades head and (lost)old metal tag, straightened and flatened lense.
Blades from the Elegance Series (Dvoracek, Agnes Simon and Dr Simon and Kucharski) were the lightest blades in the Butterfyll range, the blades heads were little smaller than the regular ones. Speed was even slower than the "Basswood" Series. Made for allround players supplying the best control.

21. Butterfly Grandis









Edited by Timo1978 - 02/17/2015 at 3:19pm

23. Butterfly Klampar-H

Weight: 75Gramms Sized:     15,9/14,8cm
Another blade with old font on blades head and flatened and straightened lense and old metal tag. The hinocki veneers give an excellent touch and are providing a great Feeling. A very good blade for two winged topspin play...still used by many players today.

Regarding Klampar I remember many funny stories about him:
Once he wanted not to Train since he prefered to visit his girlfriend. When he asked Bercik if he was okay with his leaving he was not allowed. Klampar got really angry and broke his blade. Then he was claiming he had nothing to play with now.
Berzcik told him he was right, but he gets a punishment and has to run 5 times around the stadium...Klampar did..later Berzcic found his car with deflated tires and every window was covered with thick layers of pastries...Berzcik went real mad when he saw it....

Another one is about a tournament a british collector had brought a stiga ehrlich blade for exposition..
Klampar saw it and felt in love with the Stiga...he offered much money to the collector and highered the amount two times but his offers were all rejected...the collecter did not want to sell the blade, not even to Klampar. Late at night the security got an intruder alert from the
hall were the blade was exposed...they found Klampar holding the Stiga Ehrlich already in his hands...
It seems Klampar was a person that did not really accept a "no", a real enfant terrible...




    

Edited by Timo1978 - 01/22/2014 at 4:10am

25. Butterfly Powerdrive (Old Version)

Weight: 96 Gramms Sized: 15,9/15,3cm
Here a really nice Butterfly Powerdrive first version model, produced in 1987/1988. Comes with old tag and without lense. For todays play it is a little too slow, regarding its Speed i would add it to the allround section.







Edited by Timo1978 - 01/28/2014 at 1:38pm

This particular version of the power drive is my main blade and the speed is definitely off- to off. It has a unique feel, It's very stiff but soft due to the hinoki outerplies.

26. Butterfly PowerdriveWeight: 99 Gramms Sized: 15,6/15,0cm

27. Butterfly Kenny Pro

Weight: 92 Gramms Sized: 16,0/15,2cm

29. Butterfly Firehand (New Version)Weight: 92 Gramms Sized: 15,4/15,0cm