Customer review for Butterfly Hadraw 5

Review by tjwilczek (Verified Customer) for Butterfly Hadraw 5 on June 28, 2025

Beautifully crafted, very direct, and pretty firm and controlled blade. Not overly powerful, but depending on your rubber selection this could create a OFF- to very solid OFF setup. All the rubbers I've put on it so far have worked well (Rasanter R42, Xiom Vega X, Tenergy 19, Tenergy 05, and Glayzer 09c), with the medium to medium hard rubbers being my favorites. So from that standpoint, I think you can put whatever you like on it as the blade isn't too picky or finicky with different types of rubbers and you can adjust the blade to your liking with what you put on it. The blade is pretty firm so for me the R42 was too soft and bottomed out too much and the Glayzer 09c was too hard and didn't have enough feel. I'm currently playing it with Tenergy 19 on the BH, and Tenergy 05 on the FH. It is the fastest of the 5-ply blades that I own, with the Nittaku S-5 ALL+, Nittaku Acoustic OFF- being markedly slower. My only gripe would be the handle, while a very good size, has a flare that is a little too pronounced. Altogether though, a very nice, controllable offensive blade.

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