Stiga Carbonado 145 Review: Beware!

The concern I have with ordering Stiga (and hence spending around $100 to take part in their lottery) is that even if there seems nothing wrong visually with the blade,

ahsq wrote: yea i feel you slevin, same crap with my xiom vega pro. I found the newer generations of high ends lacking in QC.

you might have gotten s bad XVP but unlike Stigs, Xiom does not have a bad reputation at all in blades. And the Vega Pro ain't high end - you can easily get one for less than $100.

Ahsq, again, sorry for your unfortunate experience with xvp.
You out of everyone in this forum who have tried or owned an xiom blade, have come across the bad quality blade by xiom.

And you did try to even out the zeph thread with a cutter, correct?

Stigas carbonado has been revieqed by a few people now regarding the qc issue and seems to go even further downhill.

How was the blade before that?

I dont mean to offend you in any way. Rather bring it to the attention of the forumers and those that might read into xioms quality.

So, it was more of a voluntary action, unfortunate but voluntary, that led to blade deformaty.
Whereas stigas carbonado quality is borderline questionable right out of the box.

i had asked you to not try to trim them in the original post.

In the last 2 years I bought 4 Xiom blades (that were mentioned on this thread) and a 145  all top quality then and now

Should be no surprise that Stiga's build quality is poor. This has been going on for years. 

capitanharlock wrote: I guess you are right. As an old (sigh) owner of a very nice 1978 Hans Alser defensive wood, it has been a terrible blow for me...

That's what I often see when I pulled the rubbers off high end premades that are supposed to be made with real blades and rubbers. Often they've used knotty blades that they don't want to sell uncovered.

At least those buyers get a discount.

LethalForehand wrote: People calm down! those joints have been there on all the stiga blades and not only those of stiga but several other manufacturers too. They have been there ever since I started TT, on Stiga, DHS, Zasaka, etc. blades. Does it affect play quality? Well, do you have 2700level loops to tell?

Here we go... Found the person that will say if you don't have a 2700+ loop you won't be able to tell the difference... So I guess I'm not entitled to a quality product if I shell out $100+ for it.

LethalForehand wrote: People calm down! those joints have been there on all the stiga blades and not only those of stiga but several other manufacturers too. They have been there ever since I started TT, on Stiga, DHS, Zasaka, etc. blades. Does it affect play quality? Well, do you have 2700level loops to tell?

I've never seen a thing like that on ANY of my blades: I own many old Stigas and Butterflies, a new Animus Diana, and I've seen so many other pictures of blades on different forums. Neither of them presents those defects (actually now I've noticed that some Stigas do).

In this case we are talking of a top of the line Stiga blade, costing around 170$.

I don't care if this is affecting the play, but when I buy some sports gear, usually I'd like to have some defect free stuff.

I bet you wouldn't be happy to buy a baseball bat who's been produced in three pieces glued together, even if (and it's a BIG if), this shouldn't affect your play.




Edited by capitanharlock - 11/25/2015 at 11:50am

capitanharlock wrote: It's funny that they proudly write "Made in Sweden" on the blade tag, maybe next time I'd better choose a good , old "made in China" cheap blade.

Edited by LOOPMEISTER - 11/25/2015 at 12:53pm

Personally, I don't really care much about the blade isn't made out of one sheet of wood. My nittaku acoustic has something like that around the acoustic logo on the blade. 

good job,good job