Customer review for DHS Power G7 - Chinese Penhold

External Review for DHS Power G7 on October 10, 2012

I've owned two of these, a FL and a ST handle. There has been good and bad:

I sold the FL handle to someone else because the handle was too narrow for my big hands at top. But it hit very crisply and with decent control. It seemed well put together and comparable to blades 4-5 times more expensive. A bit fast for me, but I decided to give the ST a try with slower rubber.

The ST was a different story. It, too hit well, and the handle is great for those with big hands, like a Michael Maze ST but even thicker, and I really have enjoyed it. However, the makers reversed two of the plies on one side of the blade, so it was asymmetrical, and that is just really bad QC. Moreover, less than two weeks using it, the side on which the plies are reversed is coming apart at the edges of the top ply. Perhaps a bad gluing, I cannot say for sure. All I know is, I've heard others complain of similar QC problems with this blade.

A note on speed: the PG7 box says OFF++. I hit with it and then with several of my mates' blades. It's nowhere near as fast as, say, a Butterfly Primorac Carbon (OFF+), and I'd say roughly as fast as the Maze ALC (OFF). In my opinion, this is an OFF blade.

So if you get a good one, it's a steal at $25; but on the other, you might get a low QC blade and be sorry. For my part, I'm tired of fooling with it. I'm getting a racket I don't have to guess at and leaving the experimentation and adventure to others.

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