What is Butterfly Pecular?
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Topic: What is Butterfly Pecular?
Posted By: Heimdallalso
Subject: What is Butterfly Pecular?
Date Posted: 10/30/2009 at 1:45pm
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I found this image at the ittf site. listed as pips  ------------- NEXY Lissom st 85g fh/ Andro Impuls Speed max bh/ Palio Flying Dragon 1.8 |
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Posted By: beeray1
Date Posted: 10/30/2009 at 1:59pm
| I wonder how old it is. Its definitely a long pip, but the pips are soooo far apart. |
Posted By: arvinr
Date Posted: 10/30/2009 at 2:13pm
| it does have the newer logo though, so it can't be that old |
Posted By: Heimdallalso
Date Posted: 10/31/2009 at 3:15am
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bump
------------- NEXY Lissom st 85g fh/ Andro Impuls Speed max bh/ Palio Flying Dragon 1.8 |
Posted By: 7plywood
Date Posted: 10/31/2009 at 3:23am
Seems like a rubber designed for backhand of a penhold blade for those that have problems receiving serves. 
See this comfy area, where player can put his fingers without touching the nasty pips.
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Posted By: igorponger
Date Posted: 10/31/2009 at 6:48am
------------------- I have an old Butterfly Co* priced catalogue from the year of 1984. The PECULAR covering is listed as a "new" product there. Yea. it was designed to better fit the semi-circular corcsheet one will find on most of the j-pen blades/ This rubber is easy to cut round the corksheeet so that the ITTF logo keeps intact. |
7plywood wrote:
Posted By: Skyline
Date Posted: 10/31/2009 at 6:53am
| it has been on the list for a very long time. |
Posted By: ppgear
Date Posted: 10/31/2009 at 2:22pm
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With those pips it should have been called the "Peculiar"
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Posted By: Heimdallalso
Date Posted: 11/02/2009 at 8:54am
ok... so most likely intended for JPen or CPen BH ? Makes sense for either I guess. ...still, that playing surface seems unreal!  ------------- NEXY Lissom st 85g fh/ Andro Impuls Speed max bh/ Palio Flying Dragon 1.8 |
Posted By: Heimdallalso
Date Posted: 11/05/2009 at 11:25am
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One last time should someone have more or firsthand experience. Thanks guys. ------------- NEXY Lissom st 85g fh/ Andro Impuls Speed max bh/ Palio Flying Dragon 1.8 |
Posted By: ryanp
Date Posted: 11/05/2009 at 4:01pm
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hmmm... interesting name, pecular? i'm curious too how this lp plays. ------------- t05 fx, diamant & wing passion medium |
Posted By: DeathAngel
Date Posted: 11/05/2009 at 4:11pm
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those pips are SOOOO small.
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Posted By: Iskandar Taib
Date Posted: 06/25/2017 at 1:29pm
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Butterfly sold this back in the 1980s (you'll find it in their old catalogs). It's meant to go on the back of a Japanese Penhold blade, the kind with the semicircular cork on the reverse side. Before the two color rule these things had bare wood backs, you were allowed to hit the ball with the bare wood (something a lot of older people still do occasionally to confuse people... if you think long pips has spin reversal you've seen nothing yet!). The two clolor rule brought in "paint sheets" so people could add color to the back of the blades (these days they're painted black or red). But they also introduced a rule saying you couldn't hit the ball with bare wood, there had to be rubber there. So they came up with Pecular (NOT "Peculiar") - the curved ID strip is so that you can cut it to fit around the semicircle of cork behind the grip. Iskandar
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