TheThaiger
Banned
A local machinist put a kamui brown on for me, which promptly fell off after an hour's play. I stuck it back on myself, but noticed the bottom did not contain the word "glue" - it was a pictorial depiction of a bottle of glue instead, which I've seen before, but not on Kamuis. Do all Kamuis have the word glue written on the bottom, or do some have pictures instead?
Secondly, it appears there are only 6/7 layers - I always thought there were 10 layers? Is it common to lose a few of the top layers during installation? It's a little hard to say how many there are for certain as it's been domed on a lathe, so the top layers are hard to spot, but the tip begins to dome on the fourth layer - ie only three fully intact layers from the ferrule. I have a kamui black waiting to go on my spare shaft - a side by side comparison shows the brown has much thicker layers than the black. Is that common?
Finally, I was underwhelmed by the hit, although that may have had something to do with the tip being incorrectly glued. It was very hard work to generate spin etc.
This is quite difficult to explain without pictures but hopefully you'll get the gist. So, real or fake?
Secondly, it appears there are only 6/7 layers - I always thought there were 10 layers? Is it common to lose a few of the top layers during installation? It's a little hard to say how many there are for certain as it's been domed on a lathe, so the top layers are hard to spot, but the tip begins to dome on the fourth layer - ie only three fully intact layers from the ferrule. I have a kamui black waiting to go on my spare shaft - a side by side comparison shows the brown has much thicker layers than the black. Is that common?
Finally, I was underwhelmed by the hit, although that may have had something to do with the tip being incorrectly glued. It was very hard work to generate spin etc.
This is quite difficult to explain without pictures but hopefully you'll get the gist. So, real or fake?
