SDC Handmade Blades

A 5 ply blade built like a 7 ply. The layers with constant thickness ensure a more stable feeling and a more linear response from the blade, than a typical 5 ply construction with a thick core. The thick Spruce outer layers provide some stiffness, but also a Hinoki like softness that many people enjoy.

Available FS.

- Spruce / Ayous / Ayous / Ayous / Spruce

- 94.3g

- 6.7mm

- 157x150mm

- FL (102x24mm)

- 1507Hz

- Balance: 3.0cm (Med)

This last spruce blade reminds me of the Kong Linghui Special. Bouncy, soft, fast, it's one of the best I ever tried in terms of feel. I bet this last creation presents the same emotionally rewarding expeience.

I'm not sure that at this point I can still call this a W968. It's the same structure, but the lamination process of the fiber makes it as soft as possible. To compensate for that and give it a little more power, I also made it slightly thicker. It has a regular head size and a chunky FL handle.

Available FS.

- Limba / Ayous / A-C / Ayous / A-C / Ayous / Limba

- 93.3g

- 6.35mm

- 157x150mm

- FL (104x25-23mm)

- 1356Hz

- Balance: 2.6cm (Low)

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But I use a ballpoint pen and a bit of painter's tape to protect the blade. Then measure the distance between the mark and the tip of the handle.

This is an attempt to make an all-wood version of a TB ALC, so it has the same basic construction, except for a thin layer of Maple wood instead of ALC, using only epoxy glue. The feeling is crisp and slightly hard, with a medium low trajectory, most suited for close to the table play.

Available FS.

- Koto / Maple / Ayous / Kiri / Ayous / Maple / Koto

- 85.5g

- 5.8mm

- 157x150mm

- FL (102x25-23mm)

-1291Hz

- Balance: 2.6cm (Low)

A relatively thin 7 ply blade, with a thick horizontal core and thinner outer layers, not usual for this type of blade. Not a very fast blade, but good stability and sweetspot for its speed class.

Available FS.

- Okume / 5x Ayous / Okume

- 85.3g

- 5.9mm

- 157x150mm

- FL (101x24mm)

- 1076Hz

- Balance: 2.6cm (Low)

An Off- blade with a woody feeling and a loud sound.

Available FS.

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

- 88.0g

- 6.0mm

- 157x150mm

- ST (101x28x23.5mm)

- 1315Hz

- Balance: 2.9cm (Low/Med)

Available FS.

- Limba / Ayous / AC# / Ayous / AC# / Ayous / Limba

- 91.2g

- 5.95mm

- 158x150mm

- ST (101x28x23mm)

- 1356Hz

- Balance: 2.9cm (Low/Med)

Inner fiber blade with a thick core that provides extra stiffness, and a relatively hard Smoked Eucalyptus outer ply for that crisp and direct feel. On the handle we have various exotic woods such as Zebrano, Wenge, Ebony, Padauk and Purple Heart.

Available FS.

- Smoked Eucalyptus / Ayous / I-C / Kiri / I-C / Ayous / Smoked Eucalyptus

e 88.1g

- 6.15mm

- 157x150mm

- FL (101x25-23mm)

- 1380Hz

- Balance: 2.7cm (Low)

This is an outer fiber blade with a Etimoe outer layer. Etimoe has crisp feeling and it's a nice alternative to Koto (not that it really needs one). Unlike most outer fiber blades, this one wasn't designed for more speed, but to encompass some of the advantages of a typical outer fiber blade like the crisp and direct feeling, bigger sweetspot, decreased vibrations and higher predictability, without the speed increase which generally comes along with it.

Available FS.

- Etimoe / Innegra / Ayous / Kiri / Ayous / Innegra / Etimoe

- 83.4g

- 6.2mm

- 157x150mm

- ST/CON (102x28-30x24mm)

- 1227Hz

- Balance: 3.0cm (Med)

The Butterfly JSH is a very popular defensive blade, but it was discontinued. I've had many requests for this composition, but until now I wasn't able to make it because it uses a particular combination of woods that are hard to find. Anybody who has used it knows that it's fast for a defensive blade, the only thing defensive about it is the large head size, and it delivers a solid, almost hard touch. People normally associate that hard touch with the outer ply, which is not true. Having worked, and removed the top ply of a JSH, I got to see what was inside. The top ply is in fact relatively soft, the "secret" is a thick Koto medial layer. For the outer ply on this one I chose American Chestnut, which is slightly softer than Limba.

Available FS.

- Chestnut / Koto / Ayous / Koto / Chestnut

- 98.0g

- 5.95mm

- 163x157mm

- ST (102x28.5x23mm)

- 1080Hz

- Balance: 3.4cm (Med)

I grew up 1/2 of my childhood in Gabon (Central Africa) where Okoume is one of the big money makers, I had no idea it could give such good looking veneers, it is mostly used to produce plywood over there.