SDC Handmade Blades

Making the springy, springier! This is a HL5 structure, but with Fir instead of Ayous in the medial layer. Fir being slightly harder than Ayous, you get a crisper feel and a bit more speed, which makes it more suitable for Bh compared to the original composition. Of course that "directness" will also manifest on the Fh.

The handle flares out a bit, but it basically feels like a normal straight handle in the hand.

Available FS.

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

- 91.0g

- 6.0mm

- 160x150mm

- ST/FL (103x23.0mm)

- 1335Hz

- Balance: 3.1cm (Med)

I wanted to pay tribute to the 2023 European Champions, and decided to do so with a blade that combines the weapons of choice of two Swedish players: former glory Waldner, and the new generation Truls. Waldner is best known for using the Waldner Senso Carbon in the last stages of his career, and Truls currently uses the Cybershape, so this blade combines certain properties of both. The WSC is a very popular blade, but a bit slow for the current game and I've had many requests to upgrade that composition to handle the polyball a bit better. However, it's not easy making a blade faster without changing its characteristic feel, which would certainly happen if we used anything other than soft-carbon (believe me, I've tried 😅). So I'm introducing a new fiber, the "Super - soft carbon", super not in the sense that's it's very soft, but a higher density version of soft-carbon, like what happens with other fibers. It's actually a bit harder, but not as much as a plain carbon, and it's obviously heavier making it harder to pair with an Ayous core, used in the original composition. So I decided to use Kiri for this one, which is lighter than Ayous and also used in the Cybershape. In the end this blade feels something between a toned down Cybershape and a faster WSC.

Available FS.

- Limba / Meranti / Super - soft carbon / Kiri / Super - soft carbon / Meranti / Limba

- 84.8g

- 5.9mm

- ST (102x28.5x23.0mm)

- 1356Hz

- Balance: 3.5cm (Med)

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)

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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)

And now the inner fiber version with the Diolen-Carbon fabric. Because the fiber layers have less relative distance between them, you get much less increase in stiffness compared to the outer version, but it's still more than you usually have at this speed range. This helps to control the throw angle, making it not excessively high, which can be a problem for some players with these types of blades. You also get a bigger sweetspot, which gives extra stability, making it more suitable for blocking than common blades in the same category.

The "sabre" handle has a straight half, and a flared half, and feels very natural to hold.

Available FS.

- Limba / Ayous / D-C / Ayous / D-C / Ayous / Limba

- 88.0g

- 5.9mm

- 157x150mm

- FL/ST (105x24mm)

- 1250Hz

- Balance: 2.8cm (Low)

I've made this combi blade thinking of a push-blocking style of play, but to be honest you can also use it in a double offensive setup with a slower side. On the Ayous side I've used unidirectional carbon, I've had this fabric for a while but this was my first time using it. Carbon fabric is usually weaved in a crossed pattern, so it has equal mechanical properties in both directions, but this unidirectional carbon only has fibers in one direction, which means it will only provide strength in the direction used. It's also very thin, so most of the blade's natural feeling is preserved. This side is at least OFF-, but there is a clear distinction between sides with the other having a shorter bounce and a less dynamic feeling, so I would probably say ALL/ALL+ speed-wise. The handle is a chunky Anatomic shape, so it's good if you have big hands, but not great for twiddling.

Available FS.

- Ayous / Uni-C / Limba / Mahogany / Kiri / Limba / Mahogany

- 86.5g

- 6.2mm

- 157x150mm

- AN (102x24mm)

- 1313Hz

- Balance: 2.4cm (Low)

Thanks!

Visually there are things you can't do with a plastic badge, and vice-versa, so each one has their use, at least for me...

I felt like doing something fancy for my 800th blade, so I went for the golden look with this one. I've used Olive wood on handles many times, but never on a top ply. It's almost as heavy and hard as Ebony, similar to Rosewood, yet the blade does not feel hard at all. You get a more direct trajectory and speed than with your typical inner ZLC blade, but this also means it will be a little harder to control.

Available FS.

- Olive / Ayous / ZLC / Ayous / ZLC / Ayous / Olive

- 88.4g

- 5.7mm

- 157x150mm

- FL (102x24mm)

- 1356Hz

- Balance: 2.9cm (Low/Med)