Closed: Mizutani Jun, Viscaria and a SZLC blade!

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slevin Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Premier Member Joined: 03/15/2012 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 3602	Post Options Post Reply Quote slevin Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Closed: Mizutani Jun, Viscaria and a SZLC blade! Posted: 09/20/2014 at 7:50pm
	I have available for trade the following. These blades are either brand new (MJ) or almost new (OVE, Vis) (ie: tested for less than 10 min against the robot). All blades come in their boxes with matching serial number. Cost includes shipping in the continental US. Payment by Paypal, please. 1. A 99.9% new 84g Mizutani Jun FL blade: ~~$190~~ Cancelled I'll also consider a almost new, similarly weighted Innerforce ZLC FL for a trade I've had 3 MJ blades in the past. The one thing I didn't like in my first 2 was that the sweet spot was smaller than comparable ALC blades. Not in the case of this blade. Basically, the sweet spot in this piece is huge - you will NOT feel the craving / need for the MJ-SZLC after trying this blade. 2. A 81g brand new Xiom Vega Euro SZLC blade: ~~$90~~ Sold Besides SZLC, this blade also uses jointless wood & natural glue giving it great stability & a phenomenal feel. I'll add Xiom's marketing literature in another post below. This is a great price point to acquire a SZLC blade. 3. A 99.9% new 84g Butterfly Viscaria FL blade: ~~$115~~ Sold Edited by slevin - 10/14/2014 at 4:56pm
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slevin Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Premier Member Joined: 03/15/2012 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 3602	Post Options Post Reply Quote slevin Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09/20/2014 at 8:27pm
	Xiom Vega Euro blade marketing literature: Structure: 5 Wood Ply + 2 Composite (Zephylium & X-Carbon) Character: OFF ~ OFF+ Grips Available: FL, ST Origin: Made in Korea What is special? Zephylium & X-Carbon Different from typical Zylon, as Zylon is 3k in thickness while Zephylium is 1k Different from typical Carbon, as many uses 6k and 3k in thickness while X-Carbon is 1k. Composition that we use is about 2~4 times more expensive than typical composition. We have used these compositions to lower the weight and also to increase the feeling of the blade. If the carbon or zylon are too thick or heavy, it will interfere with the feeling of the blade. But therefore we use only 1k (despite the price) in order to bring the best of the composite blade (Currently only blades that uses these compositions are Hayabusa, BT Super Zhang Jike, and Vega) Jointless Wood Usually, when many manufacturing companies produce blades, they use two veneer and joint them together to make one piece of veneer. For example, Rosewood wood is very difficult to find one single piece wood for the blade. Therefore many companies uses two veneer to join them into one to make it one piece for the surface veneer. Also if you open up the blades and look at each veneer, you can see that most of them are jointed. But if you look at our blade, all our layer of veneer are jointless woods. What is so good about jointless woods? Think about wearing a shoe that is cut in half and glued back together. How would this feel ? This applies same as the blades, if you use jointless wood, it will increase the performance and stability of the blade. Why doesn't other manufacturing companies use jointless wood. Because it is expensive and hard to get. Usually in order to make jointless blade, it will require 100~300year old wood to be used. But as you know the thicker and older the wood it is the more expensive it is. (Because the wood is old, the wood grain on the surface might feel bit more rough than other blades. This is same as people, If we get older we get more winkles, same applies for the wood, the wood is older and the winkles are something we cannot get rid of) Glue Natural Glue is used to make this blade in order to maximize control and catching of the ball while impact. Most of the blades are produced by using epoxy glue, in order to increase production. Epoxy glue dries up much faster than any other glue, and it is well used for mass production. (Usually uses hot press to increase productivity) However, the epoxy glue forms a thin layer of glue while drying up between the veneer that blocks the smooth feeling of the blade and also increases hardness of blade. This is not good for the professional players which requires better control and catch. Natural Glue is highly not the favourable way for the most of manufacturing company due to fact that it needs long time to dry up. However, we have separte drying storage made for only Vega series which helps to dry naturally. And when it is dried up naturally, the glue will eventually evaporate and absorbed into the wood, leaving absolutely no layer of any glue between the veneer. THIL & Made in Korea THIL is our quality control. Wood is breathing thing that changes easily according to the surrounding environment. Therefore Temperature, Humidity, Insect, and Light are very important to the wood managment. Our factory in Korea is THIL controlled factory to make sure that at point of production the wood is at their best shape. Made in Korea. In order to make one blade, it must go through 20 different types of machines. 20?? Yes! about twice or three times more machines that is required to make a blade. We use 20 different machine in order to make sure the quality of the blade are all same at all time. T-FOIL The blade comes with the T-foil attached, in order to reuse them for maintenance of rubber and blade. Edited by slevin - 09/20/2014 at 8:28pm
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tonyvista Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Beginner Joined: 08/25/2012 Location: France Status: Offline Points: 11	Post Options Post Reply Quote tonyvista Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09/21/2014 at 5:47am
	I reserved: 84g Mizutani Jun FL blade: $190 thanks !!!
	Tony

slevin Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Premier Member Joined: 03/15/2012 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 3602	Post Options Post Reply Quote slevin Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09/24/2014 at 11:33am
	The SZLC blade is sold.
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slevin Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Premier Member Joined: 03/15/2012 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 3602	Post Options Post Reply Quote slevin Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09/24/2014 at 11:38am
	The almost new 84g MJ is still available.
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slevin Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Premier Member Joined: 03/15/2012 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 3602	Post Options Post Reply Quote slevin Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10/14/2014 at 4:56pm
	All done.
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