13-12-07, 04:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Monster  There good but dont last too long. Seems to have a design flaw where the edge of the handle meets the playing surface, my white one has fracture down there, th eblack one is on its way out too. The same is happenng to the repalcements I bougth too  | Wow, first i've ever heard of that. When Jake (maker's son) came out and was playing in San Jose with us i thought I remember him saying he was still using the first pair he'd had, everyone here that started using them since hasn't had any issues I know of. I like them, but I've gotten used to a relatively long stick and I find these just too short to match my game. They are incredibly fast in the water though and a good universal shape. I have tried many different woods. Started out with oak, and some real old limb wood at that, very dense, then progressed to a lighter wood like pine and poplar. I liked the feel for the puck of the softer wood but like the power the added mass gives. Oak tends to chip and splinter worse than some other heavy woods. I've come to like maple best, but many of my sticks are made of poplar as the person who used to make them is a cabinet maker and what he used was scrap wood from the cabinets. Now that i'm making my own I mostly go with Maple.  |