zeropong blade

I just ordered my first custom blade from zeropong.com after hearing great things about them. When i got my custom bat from them ready to play, i was really dissapointed by the final assembly of the bat. The rubber assembled on the bat was done very unprofessionally with edges not being smooth and parts of rubber cut such that lower sponge is showing. The edges are not smooth at all and frankly looks like something an amateur would have done. I am attaching a few picture to show how my bat was sent. They said a hand assembled paddle the assembly job was flawless. It would be impossible for any table tennis shop to make the paddle smoother than it is. Do folks see same things either with zeropong or other bat manufacturers?

Edited by pulkitdabral - 04/16/2014 at 2:08pm

thks for responding..i am used to playing with premade bats which are impeccable in assembly(maybe not in quality). I was under assumption that is how these guys would also do it. Hence was wondering if other have seen similar things with such shops. Would you recommend i keep this?

i've seen worse......

thanks all for comments...i guess i will keep this and also definitely wont be trying to do it myself in the future since it will look 10 times worse(my hand skills for cutting and shaping suck!!)..this is my first custom bat hence was very excited about receiving it since i have played a lot for fun but mostly cheap premanufactured bats...i got the following for the bat:

sorry but it is possible for someone who is not used to the custom rubbers and blades in table tennis to buy stuff based on printed description. Those are absolutely bull***

Well all i can say is even though you may see a little improvement compared to premade paddles.... it is not a good set-up, even for beginners. The technology is about 15 20 years old.

For the price you paid, you could possibly get a much better set-up... like 729 focus 3 snipe, and some Gambler outlaw variant, on 729 BOMB blade.

next time... do a little more research and also feel free to approach regular members in this forum for some good combo. Everybody will help.



Edited by debraj - 04/16/2014 at 2:42pm

Pulkit... i understand... sometimes doing internet research throws up pages from very old posts... or from nubes.

And if you ask dealers. most of them will look at their stock thats not moving. :)

I still think this is good beginner combo

Pulkit - your new racket looks fine. If you look at the rackets of some of the best players in the world, you'd swear their rubbers had been gnawed off to fit the blade by a blind squirrel. 

Ive gotten so busy I had to have help for my premade buster blades. Its hard to find people who can and will do a good job.

I think part of it is the plastic cut ragged. I think it will look better when you pull that off.

+1 The appearance looks fine (and you will over time begin to realize that is of very little importance anyway) and it is also a good beginner setup! The only counter opinion thus far was pretty crazy (Outlaw on Bomb for a beginner coming from a premade?  Come on)