Darker 7P-2A C-pen

Guys, any feedback on this blade?

The specifications, multiply but ALL hinoki and 70 - 80 grams at 6.5mm thickness, sound promising.

Is the picture of the blade on IruIru correct? The handle of the blade in the pic looks like a shakehand handle, too long to be a C-pen:

http://www.iruiru.com/e/bf/index06.html

 

One more thought: How differently does multi-ply hinoki play comparing to single-ply hinoki?

 

I have 7P2ACHN Carbon, which I have used occasionally, so I cannot (yet) tell my complete opinion, but the blade is not fast, and it has a soft feeling like arylate carbon, and my Darker Speed 90 (9mm) or Cypress has a harder feeling. I tried the blade with F1, but I found it too slow so now I am using Bryce FX 2,1.
One thing that makes me feel strange about Darker quality on my blade : the wood grain is not parallel to the handle, so visually it seems that the handle is not at the correct angle. Considering Darker's good quality, I think this should not happen. This would not affect performance, but visually it does not look nice.
On the other post, I told you that this carbon ply gives much less smudges compared to Butterfly's Arylate Carbon when you shave it.
I assume 7P2A would be even slower than 7P2A Carbon.
My conclusion for the moment : Borko is much better, then Speed 90 comes next.
Knowing the 7P2A Carbon, I would not buy the 7P2A,but I could be wrong. There is someone in this forum using this 7P2A, but I forgot the name, maybe he can share his experience.
You are not interested in Violin ? I just ordered one having a weight of 72 grams.

SDRamones, do you mean 7P2A ? I tried to put Mark V on the BH side (Bryce FX on FH), but I did not feel the speed increase, and the weight hampered my movement, so I took it off. The weight of my blade (7P2A Carbon CHN is 80 grams).
I like light blades, my Borko is 73 grams and it is very nice. My coming light blade is Violin J-pen RH.

I have bad experience with Nittaku blades. Their blades go "plonk" instead of "twoack" like Butterfly blades. Call me nuts, but I can't play with a blade that doesn't sound right. I hope Violin will sound right for you.

Also, I like to stick with hinoki. This wood is music to my ears -- An intimidating loud tearing "t-w-o-a-c-k" served as a death knell to my op.

Interesting... Looks like there is a performance gap between multi-ply hinoki and single-ply hinoki. There gotta be an explanation for this.

 

SDRamones, I did not really use the Mark V as it is on the BH side, and as soon as I feel the weight, I simply took it off.
By the way I am thinking to get Schlager Carbon J-pen, perhaps it will be available this month at the local shop. I want to try the fastest blade (or so they say) from Butterfly.
Khvn, that's it, I don't like the sound of my 7P2A Carbon too. Speed 90 and Borko make nice sound.

The Schlager being C-Pen will make a difference to it Speed-wise.  Most Shakehand Schlager Carbons I have tried were in the 94-97 gram range.  And it felt fast and hefty.  A 2-3 gram difference to the Schlager will take it down a notch from Super fast to just fast.    So I'm guessing that it will cut the weight being a Cpen version by at least 5 grams.   

A big difference from the 80 gram blades that you are likely used to.  Even with the Cpen handle it will probably be a little less heavy but not much.  So I don't think the Cpen version will give you the aura of BTY's MOST fast blade.  It'll be fast but not BTY's fastest since it's shorter handle version.

What would be interesting  would be if they shifted the weight from the handle to the head of the blade so that tit wouls maintain it's shakehand version's weight of 95 grams.  Maybe made the head larger to encompass the loss weight of the handle.

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Is the 7P-2A cpen handle a cutdown straight? The japsupo photos look straightish. It looks pretty different to the jspeed90 and jspeed50 cpen handles.

7homuz do the 7p2a cpens have a similar head shape to the jspeed90 cpen?

nevermind it looks the same shape.

nah that's just the camera perspective