Weighted Edge Tape

One of my friends that plays with Short and Long Pips has recently discovered how much difference it makes if he adds some weight to his racket. I play with short pips (1.8 mm) on 1 side and inverted on the other side and my total racket weight is usually around 175 grams. He never paid much attention to the weight of his racket, but he always found the faster short pips I play with to play great when he hit with my racket, but then when he bought a sheet and put it on his racket it didn't play as well. It felt too fast. Someone recently mentioned to him it was because his racket was too light. He plays with LPs in Ox on the other side so I brought my digital scale and weighed his racket and found it only weighed a total of 135 - 140 grams! He couldn't believe how much lighter his racket was. So we experimented and I put some of the clips you get with the glue sponges around the top edge of his racket and what do you know, it felt much better to him. I found each of those clips to weigh about 7 gms so I put 4 of them around the top edge of his racket to add 28 gms. I've always found blades that weighed around 85 gms to play well for me, but since he plays with Short pips and long pips Ox his weight has always been too light.
So now he's ordered some lead tape from Dicks Sporting Goods that is 1/4" and adds about 9 gms for 1 strip around the edge of the blade head. Was wondering if anyone else out there has found some good weighted edge tape? I put some rackets together for some players at the club, and I'm betting all the players that have LPs Ox on 1 side are going to have rackets in the 140 gm range, so I will order some of this lead tape to add to their rackets. Butterfly sells weighted tape but each strip only adds 1 gram. Why even bother with such a low weight? If it added about 3 grams per strip then it would be worth it. Anyway just wondering if anyone else has found some weighted edge tape out there.

Thanks

Edited by AcudaDave - 12/15/2015 at 12:06pm

+1 on the golf/Tennis stores for the lead tape. Found the golf store variety is a lot cheaper than the tennis stores. 

http://world.taobao.com/item/45417964942.htm?fromSite=main&spm=a312a.7700824.w4002-12833844556.85.i9TMKA

In China, there is metal edge tape for TT blade but not sure
whether you can find it outside. Some marked Bty though.

It's not easy finding a material that's dense enough to add 30g with a little strip.

I think the current offer is also meant to adjust the balance rather than add weight to the setup.

I'm using this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/160448973084?ul_noapp=true. Each strip is about 6mm in width, which is perfect for most of TT blades.

AcudaDave - would you be able post the results of your tests. I'm very interested in the results. 

Korean ladies, almost all of them older, like O40/O50 crowd use a bat with OX on BH, but they use a solid/stiff/decently heavy bat around 90 grams+, so when they slap on OX, the balance difference isn't nearly as pronounced with those light 70-80 gram ALL class blades. They usually do not have to do much to their bat, except practice 4 hours a day at the club.

I just know that when I play with a tip heavy blade my backhand quality goes ^^^^^ 

Edited by beeray1 - 12/18/2015 at 5:33pm