SDC Handmade Blades

This is a fully experimental blade, and one of the weirdest I ever built. It starts with the composition, it's a center composite blade which is very unusual, it doesn't get more "inner" than this. The idea was to make a very flexible blade, so I used a hard carbon layer in the center to avoid breaking. The core itself is very thin, and it's surrounded with two thick spruce layers laid horizontally. This ensures their contribution to the longitudinal stiffness is as minimal as possible. Furthermore, the handle system adds even more flexibility to the blade, you can literally bend it with your fingers.

The feeling is very unusual, it doesn't really feel hard, but it feels hard on the inside (hard to explain 😅), which makes sense given it has a hard center carbon layer. Despite this, you can feel the huge dwell time given by the flexibility of this composition and handle system.

Available FS.

- Anigre / Spruce / Ayous / TC200 / Ayous / Spruce / Anigre

- 90.8g

- 5.7mm

- 157x150mm

- ST (102x29x23.5mm)

- 1250Hz

- Balance: 3.3cm (Med)

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This time a purely defensive blade, also with an unusual composition. The stiff and relatively hard Sycamore outer layers provide a crisp feeling, the thick Ayous medial layers offer good sweetspot and stability, and the soft and dead Cork core makes it very dampening. It's a slow blade, yet it doesn't feel hollow and has a pleasant feeling. It's a bit cheesy using leftover layers of the blade on the handle, but sometimes it just works.

Available FS.

- Sycamore / Ayous / Cork / Ayous / Sycamore

- 90.4g

- 6.35mm

- 165x155mm

- ST (102x31x22mm)

- 1012Hz

- Balance: 3.1cm (High)

The experimentation continues, this time within the Vis structure. Usually a blade is glued in a crossed grain pattern, the core and outer layers have the grain aligned vertically, and the medial layer has the grain aligned horizontally. On a 5 ply blade, this is made to ensure that it will not warp, as most of wood's strength is along the grain. However, on a composite blade the fiber layer gives enough stiffness and strength, so it's possible to play with the orientation of the wood layers. In this case I used a horizontal core, and vertical medial and outer layers. What happens is that the blade loses some longitudinal stiffness which was provided by the core, and the frequency drops significantly. It also becomes slower, so we have a more flexible blade with a higher throw angle, but a very similar feeling. I say similar because now we have more transversal stiffness, which affects the sweetspot, and you can sort of feel how it's less elongated but wider.

Available FS.

- Koto / ALC / Ayous / Kiri / Ayous / ALC / Koto

- 88.5g

- 5.9mm

- 157x150mm

- ST (102x29x23.5mm)

- 1313Hz

- Balance: 2.8cm (Low)