Yinhe qiu yike

curious if they're going to charge an arm and a leg for them also

Edited by the_theologian - 07/21/2012 at 11:51pm

decoi wrote: well so far i think the Nr series is worth it appart from the difficulty in attaching rubber to the blade

Skyline wrote: why are they copying the osp design?

peter79 wrote: ejmaster wrote: imo i would fire all the marketing staff about yinhe. copying design from other manufacturer. in yike's poster he is playing with a viscaria. probably trying to charge price as the nr series. a complete disaster.   I don't think it's Viscaria... Yin he also got silver square logo like Butterfly Logo... It looks like Yinhe Rosewood or Ebony series...

I think it's a Viscaria too.  I also think it will be a cold day in Hell when Jorgen Persson plays with a Yinhe blade, but that is what they are claiming.

the_theologian wrote: decoi wrote: well so far i think the Nr series is worth it appart from the difficulty in attaching rubber to the blade in some ways i don't doubt they are... but i don't even look at a yinhe blade in that price range with all the choices out there what glue are you using?

my first impression of the blade from the third picture is also a Viscaria, couldn't make out the blade from the second picture though.  That aside, I feel so bad for OSP and Butterfly.  Damn Chinese tt manufacturers, they just have to copy designs from other companies.  The OSP design of the handle and logo is so unique and original that it should've been trademarked.  Same with the Butterfly silver tag logo.  Once the tag came out, companies started copying them.  What the hell, don't they have any originality at all?  China = the king of copycats

decoi wrote: the_theologian wrote: decoi wrote: well so far i think the Nr series is worth it appart from the difficulty in attaching rubber to the blade in some ways i don't doubt they are... but i don't even look at a yinhe blade in that price range with all the choices out there what glue are you using? DHS #15

the_theologian wrote: as you guys might know, I love my OSP Experts... but does anyone remember what the "S" in OSP stands for?

Yes but OSP is pretty much an homage, rather than a copying, hence the "O" in OSP.  You know, "Old Stiga".  Not "here is our cheap or even not-so-cheap knockoff of a Rosewood or Ebenholz or Photino".  There is a difference.  Certainly there has been no attempt to copy any blade made by Stiga more recently than about 1990.  Instead, OSP is trying to create blades that have some of the same unique feeling of those older blades, not the actual design.  Now the extent to which they are succeeding in this could be debated; to be brutally honest, the OSP Virtuoso Plus blade that I owned was not even close to the old Stiga Alser offensives that I have, it was nowhere near as good.  That's my observation with n = 1, not all that meaningful.  Maybe some of their other blades are better.  That's been discussed at length in other threads.  Also, OSP never made any attempt to make their blades look like Stigas, old or new, and they have moved now into a whole series of unique designs entirely their own. 

What Yinhe is doing right now is different and deserves ridicule. 

Edit:  Actually, if you go back to the now defunct Oldstiga.com web site where OSP offers custom blades, it is evident that for awhile there, they WERE making blades that look pretty much like the old Stiga blades.  They deserved to be heavily criticized for that.  But they don't sell any of those any more, and the OSP blades now have their own looks and designs.  Also, at the time they were selling them, they were not competing head-to-head with any blade contemporaneously on the market.


Edited by Baal - 07/23/2012 at 12:15pm

Baal wrote: the_theologian wrote: as you guys might know, I love my OSP Experts... but does anyone remember what the "S" in OSP stands for?  What Yinhe is doing right now is different and deserves ridicule.