What's happening with Stiga blades quality?

There are stiga blades that are made in china like the stiga activ and the s-series but these are low end blades

I had two Stiga Offensive WRBs that chipped really easily, and also had flakes falling off when rubbers were removed.  That said, nothing is worse than some Butterfly blades like Mat Pro Special, Retriever and Defense II.  It's nearly impossible to peel off rubbers attached to them with VOC-free glues without removing many fine strips of wood that ran the entire length of the blade.  I never seal any of my blades, and never had any problem like this with Deplay Senso, JSH, Firewall Plus, Diode, Mat Pro regular (all wood version), Nittaku Vioncello, Bulldozer, Yinhe LQ-1, or any one-ply Hinoki penhold blades.

There are stiga cc's and such in china which are obviously not of the same quality as those available in the US. I was told the good ones are made in china, which is hilarious given the lengths chinese folk in china go to buy imported products and avoid domestic.

What makes you so sure this is wrong given that stiga does indeed have blades made in china?

Victor_the_cleaner wrote: this blade looks perfect to me.

Strange perception about a 'perfect blade'...

Victor_the_cleaner wrote: The only chips are at the contact points where you hit the table and destroyed the edge.

I'm sorry, they are no contact points... Inredible your hawkeye ...

*_strataras_* wrote: Drbakterius is just right!Stiga has poor quality in all its blades.They just did something different from the hardwood series and on, but still it is poor.I took a chinese national's team rosewood 5 before it came out the market (samples where made before marketing for testing by CNT)...After the first rubber removing, some grains where pealed off, on my rubber.Thank God I am watchmaker and I have tiny tools and super glues and fixed it.The same thing I saw in a relative post from a player whose emerald pealed off too excactly like my rosewood.Maybe they've put some quality definately, but not enough to make perfect blades such as bty or nittaku.Most of the people in this thread who are saying that DrBakterius is wrong, then they look only the "outer package".They see the new metal labels and the better finish in the newer blades.Many times happened to all of us to buy something from how it looks and after the usage we see its disadvantages.

+1

Nobody talking about unstucked veneers... nobody talking about PingPongHolic10 post... I cannot see solid arguments to those who defened the 'superb craftmanship' of Stiga. IMO I don't agree.

I've read about 'tricks', acetone, coating around the edges...
I'm sorry, I'm talking about BRAND NEW blades. Only reasonable trick I can accept with brand new blades is some kind of Barnish as 'Doraemon' said (not barnished in that case).

As I told at the beggining of this post, I'm talking about facts... not premade ideas in my head as others do...







Edited by DrBacterius - 01/29/2015 at 5:03pm

AgentHEX wrote: So this is something you're keenly aware of to the degree that you've checked the cartons, but couldn't be bothered to inquire into the quality diff... In any case it's inconsequential to the point there are <$100 stigas in china which aren't shitty.

AgentHEX wrote: Ok, so you had no idea what these better stigas available in china referred to, yet choose to lead with "You obvious doesn't know what you are talking about." Quite amusing.

AgentHEX wrote: I suppose they had to do something when their products are worse than the fakes on taobao. Apparently folks elsewhere just couldn't tell the difference without a point of comparison.

AgentHEX wrote: This is so funny, but to toss out a bone the best OX player in the world used Palio 531.

You are so far from that player's level it's not even funny at all.  FACT.

We are seeing some ad persona attacks here... 

Edited by JacekGM - 01/29/2015 at 6:57pm

Btw on the Infinity VPS thread someone mentioned blue stamp and silver stamp Infinity models.

How do you mean "split away from the core"?
Did you hit the table or was it while taking of the rubbers?

I'm really surprised reading some of these posts about Stiga quality.

DrBacterius friend, I understand what you say...I am not fan of any brand, I just prefer in terms of quality Butterfly or Nittaku.The best blades I've evern used from Stiga are the two National China's team rosewood, and emerald.But the rosewood was pealed off and fixed.

*_strataras_* wrote: rocketscientist wrote: AgentHEX wrote: Stiga makes blades in china for the chinese market. They're better than the swedish ones. You obvious doesn't know what you are talking about. All stiga blades are made in sweden, even the ones that are sold in China. And that is a fact. OMG you are probably the ONLY guy in this world that you don't know that Stiga has factory in China!!!

If so, how Clipper made in China, for example, can be more expensive than Clipper made in Sweden?

So many negative experiences regarding bad quality of Stiga blades and that's getting even worse (many complaints recently regarding Infinity VPS and Emerald as well). What a pity for them.

It´s a fact they have been trying to improve lately, but changing from their plastic sticker on the bottom to the "premium" metal badge will not solve the issue with their craftmanship. The cheapest made in Japan Butterfly or any Korbel is above their Top-Notch expensive blades: Rough finishing jobs, bad quality wood selection (wood knots, splinters), irregular/uneven thickness of plywood or even annoying barnishing jobs that can barely stick the rubbers (RW5)

There´s nothing more to add here, maybe CC´s aren´t the same in Euro zone. I´m also quite dissapointed with my Infinity V, outer plies came out while i was trying to peel off my rubbers. I recommend everyone to seal their Infinity blade before using it, because sooner or latery, that thin outer ply will come off. It´s not a matter of Infinity, I suffered same quality with my Clipper cr as well another models.



Edited by jonyer1980 - 01/31/2015 at 1:27pm