OSP Blades - carbon?

Wow. OSP using carbon? I never thought I'd see the day!

I'm imagining a Virtuoso Carbon now...

Think I might swap my car for one. :-)

I'm interested in testing!

Edited by derekho - 05/01/2013 at 11:14am

wow, it would be nice to test that, but I do not have the time for that, but wow, good news!!

bluebucket wrote: My thoughts are there is already a good range of carbon blades in the world that you won't be able to improve on. What there are very few of is good Allround blades.

would also like to test this blade

Unfortunately the old always tends to dress itself with newest clothes.
 
But when he thinks he can make better use of carbon with some bio stuff
instead of epoxy why not ?
The problem with epoxy is that it seals wood and that,s bad for resonance between plies.
I once made a few blades using boneglue or hideglue for making the composite layers instead of epoxy amd it wasn,t that bad. He could do something like that or use some other bio-stuff instead of epoxy. Or maybe something completely different. That,s the fun of making blades.
Most newer carbon blades use newer more flexible epoxies. That,s nice, more elastic, less ping aso. But the resonance stays poor (shallow feeling) because wood layers still loose their open character no matter how soft the epoxy.

Also the carbon is on the core so the outerply to second ply both sides is"as usual". This wil preserve lots of the delicate touch.


Edited by mercuur - 05/03/2013 at 5:24am

Thomasson wrote: I think the way you guys think is kind of narrow.. So because there are already good carbon blades, people should stop trying to make better ones? I bet you guys still drive cars with wooden wheels, cause wooden wheels already worked fine.. "Standing still is the fastest way of moving backward in a rapidly changing world"

PLLsystem wrote: AndySmith wrote: Wow. OSP using carbon? I never thought I'd see the day! I'm imagining a Virtuoso Carbon now... Think I might swap my car for one. :-) No way :) I am sure you can test one.

Don't speak too soon. You haven't seen my car:

Ping Pong Car

;-)

http://forum.tt-news.de/showthread.php?p=2417419#post2417419
http://forum.tt-news.de/attachment.php?attachmentid=39646&d=1367429283

Here it has pictures including sideview but needs to log in there to see them.
The pictures show an ayous core surrounded with carbon.  Probably ayous medial plies with limba outerply. Medial plies are approximately twice the thickness of the outerplies or thicker.
Roughly same build as stiga classic carbon allround it looks.


Edited by mercuur - 05/04/2013 at 5:09am

Another master piece, hope the blade comes with my personal beloved Stiga Master handle though :p

tiehwen wrote: Very interesting...the Carbon is sandwiched way down btwn 2nd & mid plies. Reminds me of the ALC layers of my TB ALC...

This would be like the IF ALC.  The TB ALC has the ALC between the 2nd and top ply.  Any idea how much this blade is sold for?

mhnh007 wrote: tiehwen wrote: Very interesting...the Carbon is sandwiched way down btwn 2nd & mid plies. Reminds me of the ALC layers of my TB ALC... This would be like the IF ALC.  The TB ALC has the ALC between the 2nd and top ply.....

Oops...my bad...yes, you're right.

Edited by tiehwen - 05/07/2013 at 2:33pm

Really looking forward to try this one out!

Ps. Wouldn't it be more like the Offensive Classic Carbon instead of the Allround Classic Carbon?
Since the Virtuoso is faster then OC, I expect carbon versions to be faster aswell.

I personally like the Virtuoso more in every aspect then the Stiga OC though.


Edited by Thomasson - 05/15/2013 at 5:51am

It looks like it's not the classic carbon in that blade. More like it's mixed with kevlar/aramid etc. 

We are flood of test requests. Unfortunately we had to limit the number of blades for testing but 4-5 blades will be sent out soon for the first candidates. Testers should test the blades for a week and then send to the next tester.

Edited by PLLsystem - 05/17/2013 at 1:42pm