Juic Exacta

Exacta means "exact" in Portuguese, this blade just meets its name perfectly, it gives you what you want exactly. Build quality of the blade is good, the edge comes with factory original protection and the tip of the handle is fitted with a rubber component, in which the manufacturer claims it is for vibration absorption purpose. Not much vibration even fitted the blade with thin sponge rubber. I have tried several rubbers with this blade, including built-in-tension-inverted (Mizuno Opti 1.8mm), slick anti with sponge varies from 0.4mm to 1.0mm (Joola Amy Control 0.4mm, Hallmark Mirage 0.5mm custom sponge, Dr Neubauer Gorilla and Grizzy 1.0mm) thick and short pips of very thin sponge to mid-thick sponge (Friendship 802-40 0.5mm and Xiying 889 0.5mm and 1.8mm). Amazingly all rubbers are doing what they should do on this blade: when using the built-in-tension-inverted the blade becomes an OFF- blade, which is able to loop and attack at all distance with strong spin and mid-high throw angle, when equipped with the antis the not-too-hard wood helps to absorb some power from the incoming ball and send the ball back with spin reversal, when blocking/hitting with short pips it gives good control and speed. Control is good with various rubber types. Highly recommend this blade to beginner as the weight is so light and the handle size is thin Pros: good balance between speed and control, light weighted, good built quality, small handle for youngsters Cons: must seal the blade surface. I tried to seal the top pile with 1 layer of water based lacquer, used an adhesive film (which is a very sticky Japanese one) to attached a rubber to the blade, some wood on the top piles had been peeled off!