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Hmmm, I'm designing a blade atm, so any thoughts would be highly appreciated.

Firstly I noticed my W-1 has a fair bit more feeling than more carbons since the carbon layers are under a 0.3mm limba ply then a 0.9 ayous ply.

But most of Butterfly's blades prefers to have the fibre layer before the ayous, eg

koto, arylate/carbon, ayous, tung, ayous, arylate/carbon, koto

basically my Q is how much difference in feel does this switching in ply order account for?

P.S. all EJs should realised straight away that the above composition is of the TBS


ALSO: I have a couple of ideas which do you think is best?


1) limba, ayous, A/C, tung, A/C, ayous, limba

2) limba, A/C, ayous, tung, ayous, A/C, limba

3) limba, Uni-axle carbon, tung, A/C, limba

4) limba, A/C, tung, arylate, limba

Wow, great stuff! How are you going to get it made?

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I'm actually getting Sword to make it for me.

So now I can say "designed in Australia" like those Dawei ones (designed in japan lol).

will you be able to chosse thickness of each ply?

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yes, definately, I was leaving out the thichnesses to not bore people to death before answering lol ^_^

You can even choose the thicknesses of the fibres, I mean major kudos to Sword!

I had a few blades made as a trial (not by sword). There is a lot to it... choosing the woods, thickness and order makes quite a difference, so it won't be easy, but you might get lucky... One thing that you won't know is the quality of the wood, which is also quite important, but it's fun to have go

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I might have enough knowledge to get them to make me a one ply

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You guys are really trying everything, aren't you. I have never ever dream of making and designing my own blade, simply amazing.

I have a feeling that most of the butterfly cores are Kiri, not tung. Not sure what the exact dfference is.

Anyway, 2) is otherwise known as a Michael Maze blade.

moving the a/c deeper *should* soften up the surface feel. Will probably also decrease short game speed. May also decrease overall top end slightly.

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The last two blades I made, I got some real thin fiberglas cloth from the body shop and put it under the top layer of wood. FAST!!!

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@Gekogark - hey why don't you just get yourself the W-2 instead then.....

I KNOW YOU Want toO!!!

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