undoing the WRB

Brainstorm69 wrote: gekogark1212 wrote: WITH PAIN!!! not seriously, I grabbed a screwdriver and went to town on it...hence the cuts and the burn from the hot glue. I find it has the exact same vibrations before it gets to the un-WRB'ed part....ie, with a standard shakehand grip, you'll still feel the vibrations in your fingers (contact point), but the vibrations in you palm is GREATLY REDUCED! this is just excellent. ^_^   You just pried the logo off with a screwdriver???  Didn't it break, or get scratched or something?   I like the idea of the vibrations being greatly reduced in the palm.  I have an 81g K-6 that I may try this with.  How much glue did you have to use?  The K-6 seems to have a pretty big hollow spot, and I don't want to increase the weight by more than 5 grams.

i put expanding foam in my defplay senso handle,good dampening of vibrations+barely any heavier,but careful not to overdo it.a little at a time as it takes ashort time to expand but continues for a while once it starts

rokphish wrote: gekogark1212, could you specify what hot glue stick you used? Is it the one that is milky white kind of transparent and used with the glue gun?

yes

For minimizing the vibration without increasing the weight or damaging the handle from the foam expansion, couldn't fitting it with cottonballs or something similar work? Actually I think I will try that and see how it changes the blade... :)

firetack wrote: the cotton balls may become dislodged when you play,expanding foam is sticky(carefull not to get on hands)and won`t dislodge,it won`t damage the handle if you overdo it with the foam it just keeps coming out of the end of the handle,you can sand it nice and flat when it settles

Well, I would say the experiment was a success as far as reducing vibrations goes.  The K-6 feels much more solid now, with greatly reduced vibrations.

good to hear it worked for you,regarding the plastic logo you could turn your blade  and rubbers round if resticking plastic logo fails,or add grip which will reduce vibrations even more

Thks guy ! I've also "un-WRB" a Clipper Cr WRB. Orig weight was 82g. Took of the plastic logo, fill it in with expanding foam. Did the same mistake as brainstorm, put too much...Not big deal, just take off the extra-foam during the expansion. Aim wasn't really the reduce vibes, because vibes weren't really noticable but preferably to make balance better. It was too head heavy to my taste. So during the foam drying process, I was balancing the blade from the center in order to bring it to 4cm to the handle (that's my best comfort). The foam was too light to do the job so I added one metal mini-disc (2g) in the foam. Once dried, it doesn't move. Re-sticked the plastic logo, sanded the handle, put a grip and....was exactly 4cm balanced ! Blade's weight went to 86g but it feels lighter in my hand due to the better balance. Vibes (which were almost unnoticeable) had totally vanished. Sticked two new sheets on it and went to play. Hmmmmm, juicy ! Fantastic blade. Altogether, this process made me change my mind about WRB. It is finally very usefull for players, such as me, who know exactly where is there best balance distance from the handle and can therefore "customize" their blades accordingly.