Galaxy Blade Table

I made this from YinHe's website and a few other sources.

That's a nice compilation of info.  Thanks for posting!

Tried a T4 today it's pretty fast with good control,nowhere near as fast as an SC but had good speed and it was easy to push short

I think the Galaxy website is wrong, or at least uses confusing engrish. I think by plywood they might mean plies in total, I'm not sure.

I have a W1 and I'm 99% certain that it's 5 wood + 2 carbon. The core with two red stripes on it looks like one chunk, not three. The red stripes stop after the handle and the core is clearly visible without any coloring.

There are a lot of natural marks going across the whole ply, spanning from FH to BH, which makes it pretty unlikely that it's one ply. If it was 3 ply, the marks would stop abruptly at the next ply, start a whole new set of marks and once again stop abruptly at the third.

donar wrote: I think the Galaxy website is wrong, or at least uses confusing engrish. I think by plywood they might mean plies in total, I'm not sure. I have a W1 and I'm 99% certain that it's 5 wood + 2 carbon. The core with two red stripes on it looks like one chunk, not three. The red stripes stop after the handle and the core is clearly visible without any coloring. There are a lot of natural marks going across the whole ply, spanning from FH to BH, which makes it pretty unlikely that it's one ply. If it was 3 ply, the marks would stop abruptly at the next ply, start a whole new set of marks and once again stop abruptly at the third.

cole_ely wrote: I've tried the K blades a lot, and I'm here to tell you that K5 is the slowest of the series.  Even slower than k3, the 3ply one.  That one was actually fairly stiff.  K5 is like off-.  If anyone ever floats through kansas, they can hit with k4, 5, 6, and I bet anything they'd agree that 5 has the best feel and is the slowest of the three.  K3 I didn't like as much as the others.  I haven't tried 1 or 2.

sprite wrote: JimT wrote: Anybody knows if T-4 is also a clone of smth? it's a carbon blade presumably on par with SC but perhaps not the clone? The T-1 is similar to Schlager. The T-4 with 4 carbon layers is not like any blade i am aware of, and is reported to be slightly slower than SC, with a higher throw.

HAHA I was going to say the exact thing.  There is no blade that has a construction quite like the T-4.  That is a unique blade. 

From the thickness of the blades, I would believe that the K5 would have a dwell similar to the original Butterfly Gergley which also has a 7mm thickness and a larger 159 x 162 mm head.

The Galaxy T2 Primorac Clone at 6.4 mm thickness should be clearly  slower than the real Butterfly Primorac Carbon which has a 7.1 mm thick blade.  Blade stiffness goes at the 3rd power of the thickness.  If both blades were constructed from identical materials, the PC would be 36% stiffer than the T2.

If the constructions use similar wood plys and carbon, the blade thickness is the dominant factor effecting stiffness.  If one instead uses much softer woods, then the feel could be different and you eventually impact stiffness as well.  (In a carbon sandwich, I suspect that its the separation between the carbon layers that determines blade stiffness as the thin outer ply is not likely to be the ply carrying the bulk of the tension during flex -- the carbon ply does this.)

The 7.0mm thick K5 and the 7.4mm thick T2 seem like they would
be the most promising for those looking for a fast Butterfly "Type" carbon clone, and if either the K5 or T2 also have a Hinoke outer ply, the the feel if not exactly equal to any specific model, should be in the same ballpark.

Thanks for the link. I am actually getting that T-4 from alfie and putting Srivers FX on it so hopefully it will be a good combo...

i played with the transformer 729, which is a cheap chinese blade and i think its very very good for $20...up to standard to my stradivarius, just less control

I have been using the T-4 since Sept and really like it. Well balanced, light and fast but with plenty of control.

BACKHAND wrote: I have been using the T-4 since Sept and really like it. Well balanced, light and fast but with plenty of control. The T-2 is also very nice. Not as quick as the T-4 but still with lots of control. I could easily use either of these blades. I have never used a Primorac Carbon so can't judge if the T-2 is as quick. But it is a very nice blade in its own right.

Brainstorm69. I think the control is about the same. Just that the T-4 is a bit faster.

I guess he just decided he didn't need T-4 at all since it's presumably much faster than his Control ALL+ ... so why keep the blade you have no intention of using - and that is the same reason I gave away my trusty Bty AG