Bulbed Stiga rackets ~1979-1989 with download
In this era Stiga changed its production. Tabletennis requested demands that had Stiga make a distinction between racket’s speed and started to pay attention to type of using rackets. Simultanously rubbers’ significance also incrased. Besides Yasaka/Stiga Cobra came up Tornado, Black Power, Phantom rubbers with different sponge thicknesses. (1 – 1.5 – 2mm)
Stiga company tried to widen the scale of woods for the customers so they produced almost every kind of handle for every type of wood. The super carbon could be a big novelty at that time. (3 ply wood + 2 ply carbon, uniquely core grain runs across). This solution provided faster blade than offensive wood wich has padouk (red to brown over purple) 2nd ply so dispite the 4.8-5.0mm thickness offensive wood is preferably fast and full of dynamics. Besides the allround wood they made the defensive wood.
Elit series with Yasaka Mark V, Super Carbon with Contra (narrow Alser) handle, Mäster series with Cobra*** rubbers. Hobby series with Cobra** rubber, Beginner series with unmarked or Cobra* rubber (beginner rackets’ wood were diffenrent). Besides of the well known Alser, Johansson and Bengtsson handle Stiga branched out with Stiga 2000 i.e. anatomic (later switched to the thinner Ulf Tickan Carlsson), Contra i.e. narrow flared and chinese and japanese penholder handle.
Stiga Catalogue 1979 bulbed era (pdf 3.3 MB)
Hi!
I think the link of the catalogue is wrong .
Albert
Thanks, fixed
Hello!
I do remember a Stiga ad of the bulbed series that had a picture of the blades, together with bone glue pearls on it.
Unfortunately i don’t have it any more. I think I saw it on your page.
Did you publish a different stiga bulbed ad on one of your older pages?
Thank you
Hello, I think you mean this article with download: http://oldstiga.com/2011/05/bulbed-stiga-rackets-1979-1989/
Or you mean the offensive wood head that was preparated and the layers was visible?
This could be. I don’t remember it very well. Do you still have this ad of the offensive wood?
I am confused a bit. The picture I talk about is made by me with that offensive wood preparated by me. In the catalogue in this article you can se similar pics that shows the baldes inside. Anyway I will search the offensive wood pic at home.
Thank you for your help!
I clearly remember a Stiga ad, that looked similar to the pictures in the Stiga catalogue of 1979.
But in this Stiga picture there are glue pearls visible. Maybe i saw it somewhere else.
Thank you anyway!
oh!!!
I found it! Guess where;-)
It’s the “evolution_series.pdf” that you provide!
Thank you a lot for providing this nice information!
I see now what you mean. I think its a promo for “Metal Wood”. These are metal chips represented the metal in to wood.
that’s possible. in my memory it looked like glue pearls
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