Although Stiga woods were made by hand in Tranas quantity reached considerable amount. Perhaps for maintaining rackets’ individuality Stiga started to apply serial numbers from 1973-1975 – after the nailed handle period but before the bulbed era. On the bulbed rackets made from ~1987 you cannot find serial number. The serial was made up of [...]

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 [...]

There are many stories circling on anniversary blades but the formula is simple: There are limited decennial series made since 1985 for recalling Stiga rackets & the famous players. 1985 300-300 pcs. of Alser, Bengtsson & Johansson were produced for commemoration of VM. In Goethenburg 1985. There was A-B-C marked series and 100 pcs. of [...]

Well… table tennis developed to so high level that became modern enough to make demands on not only wide scales of wood but also variety of rubbers. Since Stiga had no factory for producing rubbers it was Yasaka who made it for Stiga. Besides the early Cobra soft and backside products in 1971 Mark V [...]

This catalogue is perfect proof for developing of tabletennis in the early 70′s. First I was so much surprised when reading it since I met some pages on Stiga tabletennis matter. Today it is obvious to be able to see Stiga brand name on gardening machines or it is maybe known that Stiga made quality [...]

There are lot of information going around about old Stigas that actually rather make things more difficult than ease your decision to buy. I try to summarize what to pay attention to. The soul of the an old Stiga is its neck. If there are haircracks that blade will not lasts long. Is some opinion [...]