Handcrafted Blades by Ross Leidy

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

Originally posted by thefred 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?

sotto voce with what kind of outer plies?

Originally posted by fatt sotto voce with what kind of outer plies?

Originally posted by Ross Leidy Originally posted by liulin04 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. I think I'm in big trouble now.

In big trouble you are Mr. but not for another few months

Dang, that masur birch is popping up ALL over the place! 

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

Edited by tommyzai - 06/12/2012 at 1:27pm

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

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).

Here is my new RL blade:

Yeeeeeeeeeeee Haaaaw!!!

YEOlin! It's the way to go!

They are YEOlins . . . 

Edited by tommyzai - 06/14/2012 at 2:17pm

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).