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best wood for table tennis blades with tenergy

I have always found tenergy suits a harder blade and yet I can't get a way from hinoki veneers with carbon under them.

Every body is different when they decide what is the best wooden blades or best wood with composite under layers. First you need to know your types of wood to be able to determine the right blade for your playing style.

Limba

Butterfly Tenergy already has a lot of dwell for most people so a harder veneer of light yellow Limba will give the rigid and solid feeling tenergy deserves. The wood thickness is about 0.8 mm usually. Although it should be remembered that Limba vs Hinoki vs Koto, Limba is still the lightest and softest. Limba is the European topspin preference for many players. Many Asians swear by Hinoki though.

Limba wood makes a good table tennis blade. The usage of limba wood became popular in 1950 in guitars. It is considered as as a west African wood. The limba wood even replaced wood like mahogany because of its straight grain and dark color. The Limba wood changes its color as the time passes. So, it is hard to spot a limba wood by its color. The limba wood is soft. However, it can’t give a soft feeling to the blade by itself. When used with other veneers, a limba blade can give a hard feeling. The limba has excellent acoustic properties, and so good vibrations which make this wood excellent for table tennis blades. The thinner veneers of limba are being used in table tennis blades are popular for topspin game. The wood gives good acoustic click sound when used with speed glue effect rubbers, it’s vibrations or flex is liked by top spin players. The more the thickness, it increases the hitting ability

Ayous Abachi Samba Wawa Obeche 

Butterfly Tenergy rubber likes an overall solid blade to maintain a level of logic when penetrating deeper into the blade.  If the blade is too light it can often not offer the right momentum.  So Ayous is useful to both maintain some lightness in the core of the blade but not be as crazy light as balsa.  The high elasticity of the this African gives quite a nice bounce effect when inside the blade.  It is not that great a top veneer wood as it is not very pliable. 

Koto

The wood is tight and rather solid. It has a nicely striped, decorative design and therefore is often used as surface veneer (with a thickness of 0.7/0.8 mm).

Anegre

Anegre is a mid hard and solid, a non-elastic wood, being waterproof, it is mostly used as surface veneer. Anegre can be found in two colours basically (yellow and red); the red one can be used as a replacement for fossil tree.

Padouk

The wood is hard and elastic, partly used as surface veneer (dark red colour).

Kiso Hinoki®

A very light, solid type of wood; this particular cypress is used for blade manufacturing only when having 300 years or more in age. It can be found in all types of veneers in table tennis blades. Personally, any wood that old should not be cut down, so I would start to tell people to stop buying blades with this logo or name.

Balsa

Balsa wood is very light weight and available in different variations. There are several options: very hard and heavy, or soft and light. It is commonly used as core veneer.

Spruce

Spruce is believed to be amongst the most important types of wood used in forestry. It grows quickly and is also know as Oregon. In table tennis blades it is principally used as mid veneers.

Kiri

A light weight, soft but very tight and torsionally stiff type of wood, mainly used as core veneer. Almost every Butterfly table tennis blade that is made in Japan has a Kiri core. More durable, heavier and harder than balsa. This is one of the main reasons why Butterfly blades are heavier than other manufacturer's blades.