Xiom Vega Tour Offensive + Kokutaku 868 Table Tennis Bat
The Vega Tour blade's top layers are produced from Hinoki wood which gives the feeling of balance and ball control. Thermoset liquid crystalline polyoxazole fiber fabricated structure trademarked by XIOM Corp XCARBON® Carbon graphite fiber for table tennis plywood fabricated structure trademarked by XIOM Corp JOINTLESS® One piece veneer without material - saving joint fabricated structure trademarked by XIOM Corp .
Jointless Wood
Usually when many manufacturing companies produce blades they use two veneer and joint them together to make one piece of veneer.
For example, Rosewood wood is very difficult to find one single piece wood for the blade. Therefore many companies uses two veneer to join them into one to make it one piece for the surface veneer.
Also if you open up the blades and look at each veneer, you can see that most of them are jointed. But if you look at our blade, all our layer of veneer are jointless woods.
What is so good about jointless woods? Think about wearing a shoe that is cut in half and glued back together. How would this feel ? This applies same as the blades, if you use jointless wood, it will increase the performance and stability of the blade.
Why doesn't other manufacturing companies use jointless wood. Because it is expensive and hard to get. Usually in order to make jointless blade it will require 100 to 300 year old wood to be used. But as you know the thicker and older the wood it is the more expensive it is.
Glue
Natural Glue is used to make this blade in order to maximize control and catching of the ball while impact.
Most of the blades are produced by using epoxy glue, in order to increase production.
Epoxy glue dries up much faster than any other glue, and it is well used for mass production. (Usually uses hot press to increase productivity)
However, the epoxy glue forms a thin layer of glue while drying up between the veneer that blocks the smooth feeling of the blade and also increases hardness of blade. This is not good for the professional players which requires better control.
Natural Glue is highly not the favourable way for the most of manufacturing company due to fact that it needs long time to dry up. However, we have separate drying storage made for only Vega series which helps to dry naturally.
When it is dried up naturally the glue will eventually evaporate and absorbed into the wood, leaving absolutely no layer of any glue between the veneer.
THIL is our quality control. Wood is a breathing thing that changes easily according to the surrounding environment. Therefore Temperature, Humidity and Light are very important to the wood management. Our factory is controlled to make sure that at the point of production the wood is at its best shape. In order to make one blade it must go through 20 different types of machines, about two or three times more than is required to make a normal blade.
Blade Specifications
Kokutaku Tacky Rubber
EXPLOSIVE professional table tennis rubber with a high grade tacky surface and soft power sponge. Made from natural rubber and the world’s most advanced pimple structure & rubber surface treatment technologies.
Attacking players can easily force the play with real confidence due to the exclusive 38 degree soft sponge developed for the new ball.
This rubber is perfect for strong spin and great control.
WHY CHOOSE A CUSTOM MADE BAT?
A custom made bat is a professional ITTF approved wooden blade fitted with ITTF approved rubbers. This is an investment as the wood blade can last a lifetime and the rubbers can be replaced. A factory pre-made, packaged or plastic bat is assembled in a factory as one piece and is designed to be thrown away once the rubbers have worn. Plastic bats are fine for outdoor ping pong but not ideal for actual table tennis as they do not have the spin and feel of a wood blade with rubbers.
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