Yinhe Big Dipper - Review

Mr. Ely its 729 friendship aurora.
Comes in 40 and 42 degs . 40 with tearmender is loud as hell.

I just got a new batch in on Friday, and they went again with the yellow sponge under red 38.

GSOM_GSOM11 wrote: Please anyone compare BD 39 or 40 degrees to Thors. Which one is harder, which has longer or shorter arc, better in short game, which one is more "chinese" etc.

I played with Thors for a longer time than I did big dipper and there was a several year separation. Both are good. I found Thors very hard to counter loop with. It also had this tendancy to "fall off" the rubber if I did not hit it correctly. BD will "fall off" as well but it is easier to counter loop as the sponge is softer. They are more similar than different. I cannot recall relativel throw angles. I think BD may be better in the short game.

Questions:

Jon, where did you purchase the recent sheet from?

Btw my 38° feels like a 40° con dhs scale.

The QC issues were the reason I stopped using this.

MX-S and T05.

I think his issues were that they ran out of the soft sponge and took the easy way out...packaging hard sponges as 38.

asifgunz wrote: I see. At this current stage, I would like to hear your take on the price difference. Will the durability of your current rubbers, make up for the 2x and 3x the price of big dipper?

Edited by NextLevel - 05/31/2015 at 3:37am

I don't think they have an untuned BD, unless you have some connection to the factory.

Well, i could try my new BD 38º this evening for a while. Quite dissapointing. I was expecting an even faster version than my 39º but not at all. It´s quite softer, bouncier like euro rubber but lacks the top gear the 39º has.  Topspin arc isn´t as deadlier with this, i´d rather prefer flat-low throw rubber on my FH rather than this. On the other hand, topsheet hasn´t got same quality, maybe I wasn´t lucky this time, but  topsheet has some oxidized spotted areas and overall looking hasn´t  the uniform bright back of the 39º i got a few weeks ago.  Maybe it has to do with the numer of corners, this one was 8 edges,  don´t really know.

My 38° black BD is like a 40° DHS and 39° feels around 41°.

39° has more stronf Smell& glue effect than 38°.

So months ago I ordered a 39 in both red and black (from the same vendor in the same order even) after using a 38 that I liked but wanted to try something a little harder.  I tried the red one first and it was just too hard for my tastes, very typical Chinese rubber feel.  It seemed like it was much harder than a degree in hardness would suggest.  I recently opened the black one (I didn't bother initially since I thought the red one was too hard), and it is substantially softer than the red one I ordered, to the point where I really like it.  Since I kept the old rubber, even with my eyes closed I can tell the difference when I pinch them.  

Boy if you want real 40, the 40 I have is really 40.