OOAK Table Tennis Forum

Browsing through some ping pong shops on eBay, I noticed that one of them carries Sword brand blades. http://stores.ebay.com/Ping-Pong-World_Ping-Pong-Blade_Sword_W0QQfsubZ12272376QQfrsrcZ1 I hadn't heard of this brand before LawOCG's mention of it. Some of the blades look to be of very high quality. I'm particularly interested in the Apollo-2 and 3. The 2 seems to be two of my favorite things about Jpens, cork around the handle and a single ply of wood, applied to a Cpen while the 3 is just the Jpen version of it. I wonder what kind of wood they're using for it. From the fuzzy image, it looks like it could be ayous.

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Jpen: Galaxy 982 juniper 8mm- Darker Provine Tension-50 2.2 or Tibhar Torpedo Soft 2.2
Shake OFF: Galaxy T8 ST- FH: Darker PT-50 2.2, BH: Juic Varites 1.5
Shake DEF: modified Joo- FH: Reactor Corbor 2.2, BH: Globe 979 1.5

Sword is quite a nice Chinese brand, going by there rubbers which are very nice I expected their blades to be the same quality. All I know for now is that I've seen a Apollo-1 courtesy of Metalmonkey, and it looks quite nice. The 1 ply of Ayous seems to be of very high quality. Since he had the shakehand version it obviously was put together quite awkwardly. Sword should have just left it as J-pen and not make it into a Shakehand.

The best sword blades would be the SER ones which costs quite a fair bit.