Butterfly Power 9

A Guess at the German Forum has been:

2 plies Limba - 5 plies Abachi - 2 plies Rosewood

I did, long time ago. It's worth to remember.
If you have one, you should sell it for money and buy a new hi-end blade for better performance.

Sorry for the horrible picture but this was what I used to play with but can't remember the feel anymore

Being EJ with so many recent blades (super this, super that), all I can remember was that it felt hard. Though, may be because I recently tested the Super ZJK, Super MJ. Sorry, that is all I can recall.

CornelTT wrote: @chop4ever Do you think recent blades are better? Could you compare P9 to other actual blades for ex. TB ALC that I see you are using now? Tks

Due to my taste, I prefer modern ALC or ZLC blades.
It recall me 20-30 years ago, the day of P9, P7 and Mazumov, both Off+. Actually they are all different but very common those days when the first light of ALC blades emerged and too expensive to afford.

As I remember, P9 is more flex than P7 and Mazunov. It has strange feeling therefore it wasn't in favorite of us. If you play close to the table, fast game which is mainly drive, smash and shot, you would prefer P7. If you play powerful loop-drive in mid-distance then you would prefer P5. The P9 is somewhat between P5 and P7, for control and spin game but the problem is it still too fast. By the evolution of AL and ALC blades, the name P9 had been overwritten therefore BTY had stop producing it quickly.

IMHO, P9 has a great value for collector but I could not swap my TBS to play it again.

I know that blade quite well coz my British friend was playing with it for a long time. In fact it's not a real OFF+ for modern TT. It's a really thin blade with average speed and lots of flex. I was comparing to my old Violin and I would rate around the same speed.

I don't think it's in the OFF range nowadays. I would rate Off- at most. As far as I remember thickness should be around 5.5mm at most....

Edited by jonyer1980 - 04/21/2015 at 6:16pm