Looking for Blades Manufacturer

Ulmo German is also producing blades in Germany.

are you Roger Federer?

@ hieuphan: No, not Roger Feder
@ cole_ely: Your wrong! I really need a cooperation with a other manufacturer to solve a few problems in our production.

@ anixon: It is a long way to learn how to "making Blades" for competition range. Our main customers are the players themselves, because we sell direct to them. We also develop blades for other brands, bud not in the large quantitys like the very large companies as butterfly, xiom, donic ...!

Our main problem as a little company is not the distribution bud it is difficult to find good raw material like (veener) or fineline veneer (colored veneer).

What we are looking for is a manufacturer that takes over a few works for us; for examples productions of handles.

Anixon: Making blades is a passion (im my opinion) bud, it takes you years to get the know how, because nobody will betray you the secreteat in making blades.

Greetings Roger

anixon wrote: I live in Canada, if I learned how to make blades and tried to sell them could i make a good living?

Not likely. Manufacturing in Canada isn't cheap. It's more economical to simply import Chinese blades from established brands. Here you have much higher rent/labour expenses, and the market in Canada isn't even that big, relative to sports like hockey and basketball.

You would have to make premium specialty blades just to get some interest, because you won't win on price. And the market here just isn't big enough to make this very profitable.

@ Trebor Renkluaf: Yes, you are right, we select every piece of wood for our blades! As well, they are all handmade with a lot of devotion! So you are completely right, the source for the wood is very important!

We had the same idea like you, using musical instrument woods. We check it out and produced a few prototyps with instrument woods. Bud these wood is not suitable for Table Tennis blades!

If we could find a manufacturer  who produces handles for us, we would be very happy and that would be a great assistance for us!

Greetings Roger

ps: By the way, your Hans Alser ist not a mass product...I have also a lot of these blades from this time...Hans Alser, Kjell Johannsson and Stellan Bengttson...

Yes, the old Stigas are really good blades! Our last development is very close two this Stiga blades. For these new blades, we use a completely new way of gluing.

Oh wow Stellan Bengtsson is a member in your club, what a honor! Did you meet him personally? Last year i meet Jan Ove Waldner and his friendd J�rgen Persson. They make a Show here in Switzerland. I was impressed very much!

Hi Francis

Thanks for your reply! I know Herbert Neubauer personally, because he plays in switzerland. Bud as far as i know are the Dr. Naubauer products are OEM Products (made for his brand). He has no factory for blades or rubbers.

By the way: Do you know the brand Banco? As far as i know is athat a very known brand in france!?

Greetings Roger

@cronos: I know a way, bud it is difficult to explain, because my english is not very well...! Bud i try it:

1. You soak the blade with water
2. You clamp the wood between 2 wooden plates (with fastening clamps)
3. You heats up the blade for approximately 10 minutes on 70 degrees
4. You leaves the wood clamped for 3 weeks and lets it dry
5. finished

I cannot promise that it works bud in this way I had already success.

Good luck

Roger

swissping wrote: Yes, the old Stigas are really good blades! Our last development is very close two this Stiga blades. For these new blades, we use a completely new way of gluing. Oh wow Stellan Bengtsson is a member in your club, what a honor! Did you meet him personally? Last year i meet Jan Ove Waldner and his friendd J�rgen Persson. They make a Show here in Switzerland. I was impressed very much!

to prevent warping i think you have to glue one layer per time this takes longer and also need your press to be perfectly level.