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So I saw ads about two premade rackets being 70% off on Amazon, so I decided to get them just in case I can lend them out to my beginning TT friends. It turned out that the rubbers are not so good. However, I believe the blades are OK based on the finish.
The problem is, it's from a premade so I don't know a lot about it.

I want to train against pips but haven't got the chance to do so since my club doesn't have any SP player and have two LP players who don't usually come to the club, so I had the idea that I'm gonna peel the rubber off the premade and stick SP on one and LP on another and I can try the pips to understand how it works better. The question is, which blade for which pips?

Pips I ordered:
LP: Palio CK351a with sponge
SP: Friendship RITC 820-40 Mystery III

Blades:
1. A 3+2 ply carbon blade with very thin outer plies and one hella thick wood core. The blade has the carbon feel but is not fast at all.(OFF-?) Since there is the word "pro zebra" on the blade, I'm suspecting that it is the same with
https://www.zeropong.com/composite-blad ... rbon-p-374
The outer ply also have similar patterns of the wood.

2. A 5 ply all wood blade. I don't have any idea what type of wood it is, but it's heavier than most wood blades I've tried and all the inner plies are almost equally as thick.

So which one should I put the LP on and which one should I put the SP on?

From my experience with 802.40 it works well on carbon blades

I think you may be forgetting the hardest decision of all: how the heck to get the rubbers off the premade. Apologies if you have already done this.

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Oh crap. I totally forgot about that. I'm gonna try it now

Ok, I tried lifting the rubber up a little bit on the corner and it seems to be peeling just fine. Let's hope the blade doesn't splinter when I took the whole thing off. Maybe these paddles are intended to be a few of the more expensive premades that were glue with table tennis glue.

I won't be taking the entire thing off before my pips arrive though, which will probably be a long time. (I ordered from Eacheng avatar on aliexpress. The soonest is two weeks. )