Zylon galaxy blades

Are there any Zylon galaxy blades in existence? Such as an Amultart clone

Stunning! I wish the handle was abit wider for penhold :(

Who is selling them?

rupertgriffin wrote: Wow. I only just recently bought a timo boll zlf instead, but felt that it was nothing amazing so I'm sticking with an acoustic.

What made you stick with the Acoustic? Can you briefly compare ZLF and Acoustic them in terms of speed, throw, and dwell time?

Beautiful Blades!!!!!!!!!!!!

hclnnkhg wrote: arg0 wrote: If I interpreted the machine translation right they will be distributed starting next month (May). Currently they can be bought in China, by ordering directly at Yinhe. Maybe they also ship abroad. I've asked my "local" reseller in Germany and am waiting for his reply. I read the orginal I think that they will be distributed at May NEXT YEAR latest.

I can only read the machine translation, but the post is dated Jan 5, 2011 and refers to "May next year", which should be still May 2011, because the post is dated before the Chinese New Year (Feb 3, 2011).

BeaverMD wrote: Yinhe makes some nice looking clones.

Yinhe actually makes great blades and has developed/adopted own technologies for drying and cutting, so I wouldn't say those are clones.

The structure of the ZL, ZLF blades are:

• ZL, total thickness 5.6mm: Koto + Ayous + ZL + Ayous core + ZL + Ayous + Koto
• ZLC, total thickness 5.7mm: Limba + Ayous + ZLC + Tong core + ZLC + Ayous + Limba (Tong may be Kiri) or tung tree is wood of Paulownia tormentosa, the same used as core in Nittaku Acoustic)
  

Is the structure of any Buttefly blade using Zylon or Zylon+Carbon similar?

EDIT: I know nothing about trees, got confused between "Tong" and "Tung" Good ol' Wikipedia helped out: if Tong is Pao Tong, then indeed it's Paulownia tormentosa, more commonly known (in table tennis and in Japan) as Kiri. To make things more confused, Japanese Koto music instruments are made of Kiri , however the Koto wood is an African species (Pterygota bequaertii or Pterygota macrocarpa).  The Tung tree wood used in Nittaku Acoustic is Vernicia fordii, also known as tung oil tree and the wood sometimes used as substitute to Balsa or Basswood). We should start using latin tree names for wood types and chemical compound names for fibres in blade compositions, that would be funny! My Yinhe ZLC is: Terminalia superba + Triplochiton scleroxylon + poly(p-phenylene-2,6-benzobisoxazole) carbon graphite + Paulownia tormentosa + poly(p-phenylene-2,6-benzobisoxazole) carbon graphite + Triplochiton scleroxylon + Terminalia superba


Edited by arg0 - 04/21/2011 at 2:06am

arg0 wrote: Is the structure of any Buttefly blade using Zylon or Zylon+Carbon similar?

Carbon TT wrote:   The Yinhe ZLC sounds very similar to the Innerforce ZLC.

The thickness is the same, but the BTY Innerforce ZLC is limba + limba + zlc + ayous + zlc + limba + limba
So, besides the use of ZLC, only the outer plies are the same, unless their thickness is different.

T-7 and K-3 are no interstellar rockets, and neither is V-13 I suppose. Of course, if you buy those that are classed as "fast"... Chinese fast is western OFF+!

Antiq wrote: Just a side track..   Other than Galaxy, you can try Sword. They have Gold Julong, Silver Julong and Ghost blades. All have Zylon (similiar) composites in their ply... And I've a custom made ZLC from Sword, too bad I don't have the original to compare.

Don't they actually call it Jylon?

Do you know a blade Galaxy or Sword with composition: limba-ZLC-limba-ayous-limba-ZLC-limba?