Butterfly Ryu Seung Min Blade

Can anyone tell me something about the blade? how long had it been in stores? how many were made? sold? Anything. I am in position to buy one now, so any info's welcome. thanks.

Yeah Butterfly made them right before the Olympics he won Gold at. He used the Bfly KTS while he was sponsored by Bfly. He switched to Xiom right around the Olympics so the Butterfly RSM was a very short run of blades. I think Butterfly quit making the KTS when the RSM was available and once Ryu left shortly after the new Blue version of KTS came out. Nice blade for a collection but is basically a re badged KTS

Depends if it new or used. I would say used it is worth $200 and new could be $300-$500. I have seen them on some chinese sites before for a lot of $$$. In this economy i would guess around $350

definetely not a re badged kts. if you notice the old kim taek soo and cypress max has a different head shape. kts is slightly rounder.

of course not. speed 70 is much smaller. they all have slight variations. impossible to be the same since they all come from diff factories ie diff machines.

its just a very small difference. if you still have the blades maybe you can make a comparison. smaller is faster is true and its easier to switch forehand to back hand, more flexible. but more powerful is defintely wrong. go further from the table and the smaller surface blades are actually weaker. in the past they used to use the smaller surface blades (eg during the small ball era like cho tokusen A by nittaku) and after the big ball came into picture most producers switched into bid surface blades production. bty has small surface custom mades which i tried before and its really weaker than the big surface ones.

some of the chinese sites still have them . They are around $500USD

Nice, is this yours?