SDC Handmade Blades

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The situation is on stand by. It's really not about the money, I would refund him without a problem (as I did in the past) if I wasn't almost certain this was a scam attempt. Both times he asked for a refund, not a substitution blade, that's another suspicious thing to add to the list. The funds were sent using Paypal gift, so I have no legal obligation to refund him, but without concrete proof I still feel a moral obligation to do it, so I'm still on the fence.

Anyway, that's just a pebble in my shoe right now, I have so much more important stuff to think of. I've been laying low recently because I don't have time for everything, I just want to control the demand for a bit while I get my affairs sorted, and hopefully there will be some surprises in 2023 🙂.

Jean Paul Montanus (NED), using a custom SDC blade, at the side of Kelly Van Zon (NED), became world champion in Mixed Doubles Class XD14 at the Andalucia 2022 World Para Table Tennis Championships!

- Mansonia / Ayous / Ayous / Ayous / Mansonia

- 84.9g

- 5.7mm

- 1100Hz

- Balance: 2.0cm (very low)

Just a happy family chilling on the couch, the father, mother, son, and the cousin with the weird hair cut 🙂

This line of blades is a proof that head size affects stiffness, and how we can judge stiffness by looking at the frequency reading. All blades share the same composition, but with a increasing head size, there's a decrease in the frequency reading and stiffness.

- Limba / ALC / Ayous / Kiri / Ayous / ALC / Limba

- Freq.: 1227, 1291, 1380 and 1421Hz

- Limba / S-AxC / Ayous / Kiri / Ayous / S-AxC / Limba

- 84.1g

- 5.7mm

- 1528Hz

- Balance: 3.1cm (Med)

Similar construction to a Liu Shiwen, but with Spectra instead of Zlf. It's a medium fast offensive blade with a soft feeling, great control and a loud sound.

Available FS.

- Limba /Ayous / Spectra / Ayous / Spectra / Ayous / Limba

- 84.0g

- 5.7mm

- 158x152mm

- FL (100x24.5-22.5mm)

- 1205Hz

- Balance: 2.6cm (Low)

It seems to me that the Marianne design could be just that: the fastest blade in the world that still makes sense. 

The German guy's blade and mine just do not make any lol but it's so much fun to play them. I'll add that they make us smarter and improve our skills because it takes a lot of touch and intelligence to keep the ball on the table .

So I have a twin brother now? this is great!!! where does this one go?

Not an ugly bunch, 3 combi blades and a cyber thingy

Combi

- Koto / AxC / Ayous / Kiri / Ayous / Limba

- 5.7mm

- 76.1, 76.8 and 77g

- 1313Hz

- Balance: 2.7, 3.1, 2.9cm

Cyber

- Koto / AxC / Ayous / Kiri / IC / Ayous / Limba

- 5.7mm

- 82.6g

- 1380Hz

- Balance: 3.3cm

Let's not say that too much or we could lose him to pickleball. Given the exponential growth of that sport, I wonder if they'll get a niche market for all wood and wood+composite for picklesnobs. The fact they allow about eveything might make it harder tho.

My first Jpen

- Hinoki / AxC / Kiri / AxC / Hinoki

- 84.5g

- 6.6mm

- 1744Hz

- Balance: 3.3cm

Available FS. 

- Sucupira / Ebony / Kiri / Ebony / Sucupira

- 89.2g

- 5.0mm

- 157x150mm

- AN (100x25-23mm)

- 1055Hz

- Balance: 2.6cm (Low)

- Koto / AxC / Ayous / Kiri / Ayous / AxC / Koto

- 92.1 and 92.2g

- 5.7mm

- 1485Hz

- Balance: 2.4cm (Low)

Some glues like Hide or PVA just form a layer above the wood, they don't have filling capacity. Of course you can use more glue and force it to squeeze out the pores, but that means more glue weight. PU expands, so it does fill does pores. In fact, that's a problem with very porous woods in outer layers, because the glue will bleed trough. But this feature means you can have a stronger bond with less glue.

Wood is not a sponge, it doesn't compress in the same way. If you compress wood it stays that way, it doesn't restore its original volume, so altought that might sound good in theory, in practice it doesn't really work. 

Stiga filled the pores or they just claimed they did? Because there are reports of people opening up those blades and seeing nothing. In order to do that you must have used a stabilization technique, which is very expensive and time consuming, so I have doubts. The best they could do was to mix something in the glue, perhaps they did that...

When it comes to understanding what makes blades play the way they do, I'm the biggest geek of them all: https://www.sdcttblades.com/nerdy-stuff