Alternative to the Nittaku Acoustic

Hello there,

Well, not in my country. Cost+shipping+taxes (60% of total value) makes well over $150.

If you are willing to try composite that does not feel like it, not slow but not too fast, no vibration but good feel, solid and predictable in its linearity, I recommend the Donic Waldner Senso Carbon. 

piligrim wrote: matteroftime wrote: Well, not in my country. Cost+shipping+taxes (60% of total value) makes well over $150. TT11 and Dandoy ship for free orders over $100

stiltt wrote: matteroftime wrote: I've used the Harimoto ALC for 8 months and now I'm getting back to all wood blades to improve my control. With carbon, I could see my technique getting worst because I to shorten the stroke so I wouldn't overshoot the table. This is why I mention the Waldner senso carbon, it is not faster than the acoustic, it is one of the slowest composite blades.

qpskfec wrote: SDC can make you a clone Acoustic for about half the cost. Sergio does excellent work.

good call!!!

It's unfortunate that Sergio has a long wait list, when I bought my blade from him, I only waited about 2 months.

I just bought an Acoustic on sale. If you don't want to wait that long and want a nice feeling 5 ply wood blade, here are other blades I own that would be good and not too expensive.

AVX BT555 - very crispy feeling looping blade, I played this blade for many years, these go for about $60-70

Yinhe W6 - clone of YEO that goes for about $35 on aliexpress, can't go wrong

Another custom blade maker is bladesbycharlie.com, I have a few of his blades, he does great work and can make you a blade for a very reasonable price a lot sooner than Sergio can.

Here, he is member Hipnotic, you can PM him. We also call him by his 1st name Sergio.

king_pong wrote: doraemon wrote: The other contender is Donic Waldner senso v1 (yellow handle), but it is in between Korbel and Primorac.   And also it has hollow handle (kind of Stiga's WRB).   It is also a limba-limba-ayous-limba-limba blade. I keep reading about this blade.  My buddy recently got one.  It appears that they've thickened it slightly for the new ball.  Read somewhere recently on an asian sight (it was translated, I remember that) that it was designed by a joint effort between Banda & Nittaku when Waldner was still sponsored by them.  Then when he shortly thereafter left them for Donic, the design followed him and became the blade we know today.  While for Nittaku's efforts, the design became the Acoustic