Wimpy beast mod

BRS,

I made a lot of posts on Table Tennis Daily, look for the mods of Stiga Allround Evolution, Tibhar, Kim Jung Hoon, Yinhe 896, and some others. I talked about the benefits there, so I won't repeat all that here.

My mod involves removing the handle, and filling the empty space with hide glue and a filler, toothpicks or small nails, depending on how heavy I wanted the bottom.

What I have gone to now is using a heat gun carefully and SLOWLY to heat up the handle for a few minutes at a distance, and use a very thin artists knife or other thin putty knife to separate a handle, then the other. If you remove a handle and find it is solid, you can still scrape out a good deal of the handle to hollow it out, then fill it with hide glue and whatever - it will still be heavier than solid wood original.

I glue the pieces back on with hide glue and clamp a couple days.

Of course there are a few steps I didn't mention, but they are common sense, like putting a small piece of paper exact size of hollow space over the glue and toothpicks and wiping excess. The heat gun I use is a USD $20 Wagner heat gun used to heat up floor tiles to remove them.

I do not recommend taping coins to the bottom, it will make the feel at impact really really weird.

One way to weigh down the bottom without and "Surgery" is to use GRIP TAPE, like real thick kind, like tennis overgrip… or use TWO TT grip tapes.

Sometimes a grip tape or two is all it takes to balance out a blade, sometimes it isn't. It is a personal thing.