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thefred
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Indeed stunning job! Incredible craftsmanship ...
Most beautiful blade I ever seen. You are not a 'blade Maker', you are an 'artist' Master Ross Leidy! Just a question, is the handel not slippery when wet? Edited by thefred - 05/17/2012 at 7:17am |
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FH DHS Neo TG3 BH Palio CJ8000 Biotech 36-38 1.8mm http://www.palette-bleue.net |
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aeoliah
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That is a very good idea ! I do not like part cork and part wood for the handle. According to my opinion, it is ugly (no offense meant for owners of that kind of blade). And no, I don't do RPB. I have one Sotto Voce J-pen on the way, weighing 67,1 grams ! It will be the lightest blade in my collection. Maybe Ross would post the pictures, but I am not sure because it looks just like a normal J-pen without fancy handle. However for me it is a special one due to the weight. I hope I would like the the blade in play. |
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Ross Leidy
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Thanks, thefred. I don't normally use a gloss finish, but even though it is smooth and won't absorb any moisture, it feels more grippy than slippy when playing.
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Ross Leidy
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Here are a couple photos: |
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liulin04
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WOW!!! Great job Ross, this is truly a masterpiece. Looks like I have to have my wife come up with an even more difficult handle design to top this one off for my next blade from you. |
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Ross Leidy
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The outers are alaskan yellow cedar. Sorry, no close edge photos.
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Ross Leidy
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I think I'm in big trouble now.
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liulin04
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In big trouble you are Mr. but not for another few months |
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Ross Leidy
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I built a pair of blades for Carryboy recently and promised to share a few photos with the group. These are the same composition as I built for him before: anigre(x2)-WRC-anigre-european beech. Handles are peruvian walnut and masur birch.
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mmerkel
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Dang, that masur birch is popping up ALL over the place!
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Carryboy
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Fantastic Blade(s) Ross!!!!!, Thanks for posting.
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Spin Master Carbo Power (Stefan Elsner Custom)
Donic Acuda S1 Max Donic Acuda P1 Blue Max |
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Carryboy
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Just a few pictures of the beast prepped and ready to go. It is a monster!! I have been playing with this blade, well one of them for a week now and pretty much everything described in my review on this blade design remains the same. However a few changes were made which was increasing the size of the handle by 1.5mm (25.5mm x 105mm) which a big difference in the balance and feel of the blade. The second was using a WRC core which was a lot straighter in its grain pattern. The result was a blade around 2.5 to 3 grams lighter than the original samples I had gotten before (This blade is 85 grams). I am using Tibhar Aurus Soft max fh and Donic Desto F3 BS 2.0 bh. The blade is a true Off, very linear in its behavior with tons of control. The best part of it is the sound of this blade with the Aurus rubber, it cracks like a whip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Edited by Carryboy - 05/22/2012 at 5:25pm |
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Spin Master Carbo Power (Stefan Elsner Custom)
Donic Acuda S1 Max Donic Acuda P1 Blue Max |
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vclara99
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Am in Love
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tommyzai
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Tommy has two new toys and a third in development. Shhh, don't tell g/f. :-) Updated pics coming soon . . .
Edited by tommyzai - 06/12/2012 at 1:27pm |
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mhnh007
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Hey Yo Tommy - Is that top ply the same wood as the Violin? If you don't mind, please share the material information. Thanks,
Carryboy - What did you just do??? omg, what did you do to the handle? Now it looks like my Primorac OFF- . Edited by mhnh007 - 06/06/2012 at 3:41pm |
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Gauguin
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Wonder what is the wood composition on your blade Tommy??? |
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Ross Leidy
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It's like a Violin/YEO hybrid. White ash outers (Violin), white ash medial on one side (Violin), ayous core (YEO), spruce medial on one side (YEO).
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liulin04
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nice cpen and shakehand combo Tommy, and good job for the marvelous blades Ross.
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Carryboy
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It does!!! |
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Spin Master Carbo Power (Stefan Elsner Custom)
Donic Acuda S1 Max Donic Acuda P1 Blue Max |
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mmerkel
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Yeeeeeeeeeeee Haaaaw!!!
RL Avalanche#2 in my hands - Right now! Glued up the rubbers, bounced around the ball a bit...OMG I can't wait til Monday when I can play again. *Breathe deeply...Calm down*
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tommyzai
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YEOlin! It's the way to go!
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tommyzai
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The dynamic duo is almost in my hands . . .
Edited by tommyzai - 06/12/2012 at 1:31pm |
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tommyzai
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They are YEOlins . . .
Weight is 8.34g Thickness is about 5.6mm white ash-white ash-ayous-spruce-white ash Notice the medial plies are different.
Edited by tommyzai - 06/14/2012 at 2:17pm |
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mhnh007
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Such a beautiful blade. I wonder if it's noticeable different between the 2 sides, and also which side do you intend it to be the FH side? BTW - I will keep an eye on the FS section from here on out . |
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mmerkel
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I played with my RL Avalanche #2 for the first time last night. It was (almost) no adjustment to get back into it. I went back to about 90% of where I left off and my enjoyment of TT just doubled. Everything seemed to just go better again and beat my training partner (lost to him in the last tourney) handily. Wednesday can't come soon enough
Ross, great work on the second coming of Avalanche Plays identical to the first one as far as I can tell (and that is the only opinion that matters). |
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tuco
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LOL.... we should start a pool to see how many days after tommy receives the blade he would put it in the FS section. |
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Ross Leidy
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Tobhik
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Up to now, I haven't seen any composite blade from Ross.
Is it difficult to get carbon or arylate or zylon or whatever or is it difficult to assembly those materials? |
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shay2be
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he has done one carbon blade for tommy zai called the Red Hammer
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shay2be
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I finally ordered a blade from Ross Leidy and Ross helped me chose a composition of
Masur Birch - Mahogany - Kiri - Mahogany - Masur Birch This is a picture of the wood cut out to shape. I told Ross to create a design for the handle so lets see what he does with it! Edited by shay2be - 06/18/2012 at 11:17am |
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