Butterfly Hadraw SK

Amazing blade. High control with all the benefits of offensive play. The quality of the wood is top-notch and looks like handmade. Soft touch and best control, but when you attack, it becomes a small monster because of the hard wood in the veneers, with a hard feeling that you need with the plastic ball. Very sad that it’s discontinued; maybe it cost Butterfly more money to produce because of the special wood… who knows…

Own this Hadraw SK paired with DHS H3 (2.2mm orange sponge) and Andro HexerGrip SFX (2.1mm). I love the feeling over the table. It’s best for opening up with rotational-rich service, giving my opponents a real hard time. It’s good for making spin service variation, resulting in difficulty for my opponents to read correctly.

But it is (due to my personal taste) a head-heavy blade, and I have to use very soft rubber (40deg Euro scale). I have tried Rasanter V42 (2.0mm), Tenergy 80FX, even Spinlord Waran (1.8mm cut weight only ca 30gr), but they failed to fulfill my preference. I can put a simple handgrip to balance the issue, but it is my last choice.

I would give it a 9 overall rating if it were a balanced blade. Perhaps I should contact Soulspin to make a special handle for my beloved SK!

Feels like ALL, hits like OFF-. Got exactly what I wanted from Hadraw SK blade: good control for blocking and pushing, but nice pop when I loop or hit.

The outside is quite soft and feels like a classic Stiga ALL when you bounce a ball on it, but it is actually very stiff and is fast when you hit hard.

I paired mine with Donic Bluefire Big Slam, which works great.