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Hipnotic wrote: on Friday , May 1 , 2026 at 4:12am
At first I was going to keep the 160x151mm oversized head

This is extremely disappointing and hurtful & misleading coming from an experienced blademaker like you.

Regular manufacturers lie about blades like this size being oversized just to sell a few blades but there is no need for you do this.

+1
Choppers are already as stupid and as ignorant as they come and you totally mislead them more when you claim that a midsize blade is an oversized blade , especially in the 40+ plastic ball ONLY era

You can read more about correct blade sizes here

Yeah me too
I was very surprised to see Hipnotic make this simple mistake

Yeah I made a mistake too.
The blade Hipnotic made for me is 172 mm in length, which is OK but I made a huge mistake in having the head width at 165 mm
I do not know what I was thinking. (It was not Hipnotic's fault)

I have no idea where & when & how this idiotic myth that the head length should be higher than head width started
I guess it came because some JKPen blades are like that , which is fine for attackers
But it is stupid to have head width smaller than length for a chopper blade.

Then again since no production oversized blades exist in table tennis , despite the ball having gotten 2 mm bigger , I guess this is a moot point in ITTF's TSO OTT (top spin only Olympic table tennis) anyway