sportcraft pimple out

 

These premade blades are not as bad as they are cut out to be. If the purpose is to make a barebones cheap beginners bat, these Sportcraft and other premade blades are an excellent choice to pair up with leftover rubbers on hand. I frequently look for blades the rec centers at Army camps are looking to trash. if the blade is not damaged and only the rubber, I use an old sheet of rubber to rub off the sticky crappy heavy sponge/glue residue and slap on a used sheet of Dawei XP 2008 Super Power, sometimes a new sheet ($7 a sheet big deal) If you play daily or better yet are at a club where players change their rubbers a lot, then if you are good in removing teh sticky mess, you basically can make a free bat for a rec center or a new player while they decide thier style and suitable equipment.

 

Many of these rec center bats are ALL or ALL -, maybe ALL+ in speed and usually 5 ply wood. Paired with XP 2008, it si easily a controlable racket a beginner can use for a spell while learning the game. I have made many of these bats for Army rec centers using blades they were about to throw away, because their rubbers were peeling off leaving teh sticky sponge.

 

Go for it if you are of a mind.

 

  Perhaps not so horrible, I was defeated in the finals by that "horrible blade". Went up against a very good basement player that lasered flat hits by me faster than Luck Skywalker's light saber.