The Way of the Butterflies

Hi everybody,

after a 15-years-break i restarted playing table-tennis two years ago. Since that time i have always been looking for my "best-fiting" personal equipment and was testing out many blades. Now I finally ended in collecting Butterfly Blades. I am not specified at collecting a single handle type or only collect just blades in unused or mint condition. My collection is by far not the biggest if i take a look at some other members here...but...
a few blades finally ended up at my home that`s why I want to show some pictures of my woodies and hope you have fun by watching them....
Here a videolink how Butterfly blades are born:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SozRZAxg6vk#t=417


So let`s start with some classic blades....here we go...


































52. Butterfly Tamropa

53. Butterfly Appelgren

54. Butterfly Kreanga Aeros

55. Butterfly Schlager Inspire

56. Butterfly Korbel Magic Hand

57. Butterfly Kitoh Pro Model

58. Butterfly Morim

59. Butterfly Mazunov FL

60. Butterfly Mazunov AN

61. Butterfly Primorac Off-

62. Butterfly Korbel FL

63. Butterfly Defahre

64. Butterfly Grubba SoftFeel

65. Butterfly Manarsa

66. Butterfly Ranato

67. Butterfly Kong Linghui

68. Butterfly Exalter

69. Butterfly Coleus

70. Butterfly Adolescen

71. Butterfly Adolescen

72. Butterfly Spinart

73. Butterfly Shoare

74. Butterfly Ardes

75. Butterfly Zhang Yining

76. Butterfly SK7 Alpha

77. Butterfly Phalanx II

78. Butterfly Cresail

79. Butterfly Compara

80. Butterfly Powersmash

81. Butterfly Hinoki Shake Swift

82. Butterfly Chen Cjien-An (LE)

83. Butterfly Chuang Chi-Yuan

84. Butterfly Kreanga Powerspin

85. Butterfly Schlager Prscision

86. Butterfly Hinoki Shake Speedy

87. Butterfly Kiso Hinoki VII

88. Butterfly Senkoh90

89. Butterfly Steger

90. Butterfly Korbel (AN)

91. Butterfly Grubba Pro (EU-Version)

92. Butterfly Ayazo Umemura

93. Butterfly Mitamura Pro Model

94. Butterfly Hermoso Light

95. Butterfly Pulser (Allwood)

96. Butterfly Keyshot ST

97. Butterfly Moonbeam ST

98. Butterfly Pulser

99. Butterfly Biside FL

100. Butterfly Viscaria ST

101. Butterfly Viscaria FL

102. Butterfly Retriever ST

103. Butterfly Timo Boll Spark ST

104. Butterfly Keyshot Light ST

105. Butterfly Iolite ST

106. Butterfly Iolite FL

107. Butterfly Timo Boll Spirit

108. Butterfly Timo Boll Spirit (Former Personal Blade of Timo Boll)

109. Butterfly Michael Maze ALC FL/AN

110. Butterfly Kong Linghui Special ST

111. Butterfly Cofferlait FL

112. Butterfly Allure Tamca 5000 ST

113. Butterfly Scorna Tamca 5000 FL

114. Butterfly Kumpuru Tamca 5000 FL

115. Butterfly Sardius Tamca 5000 FL






















3. Butterfly Surbek (European Champion)

Weight: 101 Gramms Sized:15,9/14,7cm
This Blade is a Tribute to the famous Yugoslavian Player Dragutin Surbek (The Worker) who was very successful in doubles together with his partner Anton Stipancic (The Genius), both teamed up successfully at doubles in 1979 in Pjöngjang and won the title. Surbek was a real "Training Animal" he broke in the Training hall several times at night to Train and went really mad if he was not able to play tt every day....   

Endlich, es wurde aber auch Zeit

Dean wrote: Endlich, es wurde aber auch Zeit There will follow some really nice ones, I am sure!

Ja, Du hast Recht, es hat lange gedauert aber man braucht auch Zeit dazu und ja, es werden noch ein paar nette Hölzer folgen

pls keep sharing your blades :)

6. Butterfly Surbek Junior 555

Weight: 103 Gramms Sized: 16,6/15,5cm
Another Classic Surbek Blade
The Blade came to me this summer... I want to say thank you again..

   

JohnnyChop wrote: Awesome collection! is there a reason the swedish style's grip is they way it is?

I do not really know for sure but i think the holes were made to reduce the weight of the handle and could have also been a reason for reducing sweat. Maybe the blade was also lacking weight to the blades head, this could have also been a reason for the amazing style of the handle. Stigas "Ehrlich" handle seems to be very similar to the Swedish Style.

kakapo wrote: Timo, We will all be speachless

Michael, I will try my best not to disappoint you you.

8. Butterfly English Style

Weight: 95 Gramms Sized: 17,3/15,3cm
with old (german/latin/Roman) font and nailed metal tag.
If you look at the dimension of the blade, the 95 gramms are still
acceptable. Similar to the Butterfly New Leather.



Edited by Timo1978 - 02/17/2015 at 3:16pm

11. Butterfly Phoralek HS

Weight:86 Gramms Sized:16,5/15,4cm
This 5-ply-wood is based on the same blade construction than the Jonyer-H. Erich Pohoralek from Suisse gave order to Butterfly to produce these blades to compete against the Stiga Alser since other models like Secretin/Kenny Style were made with basswood and the handle of Jonyer-H was very small.. So the blades head of the Pohoralek HS (Hinoki-Shake) was also modified and the handle got bigger. Blade speed is OFF-



Edited by Timo1978 - 02/22/2015 at 4:45am

12. Butterfly Pohoralek CBS

Edited by Timo1978 - 01/09/2014 at 2:48am

Edited by Timo1978 - 01/11/2015 at 3:45am

Thank you, thank you Timo, wonderful collection and pictures. Do you have a Cypress-P? I owned Cypress-X and Cypress-P. Also Secretin and Panic. I wish I would have kept those blades.

frogger wrote: Thank you, thank you Timo, wonderful collection and pictures. Do you have a Cypress-P? I owned Cypress-X and Cypress-P. Also Secretin and Panic. I wish I would have kept those blades.

wow, awesome collection!!!