The birds have landed!! Looking forward to giving these a lot of attention over the next week or so! It will be my first taste of featherspin!
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Alright my time is officially up with these and it’s time to pass them along for the next person to enjoy! @Upmanyu go ahead and send me your address and I’ll get these packed up and shipped off!
Here are my final thoughts after playing with these for 2 weeks.
This is my first taste of featherspin and I have to say I am definitely impressed! I really enjoy the laid back design kinda mid 2000s style compared with a lot of the modern wide rim-weighted designs being pushed currently.
I think my favorite of the bunch was the Anser. It’s nice and small, quite zippy and maneuverable with some decent rim weight packed in for stability. I’m not exactly sure what I like about this one but it just clicked with me for some reason. At first, I thought the osprey was going to be my favorite but the more I played with this one the more I like it. Definitely the most sad to have this one move on.
The Osprey as I mentioned above was originally my favorite for the first few days. It’s definitely the biggest and most powerful of the bunch and has a really nice feel in the hand. The shape is great for catching all kinds of tricks, including performing rejections and other slack elements. This one almost kind of reminds me of some older CLYW designs the way it feels on the end of the string and in the hand. Definitely enjoyed my time with this one for sure.
The Corvus. This one is really fun! It’s very small and light and overall just super enjoyable to play with. It has just a very relaxing and fun vibe to it; and if that’s what the intent of the design was, featherspin en absolutely nailed it!
Lastly the Ptarmigan. I didn’t really play with this one as much since I really vibed with the first three much more. This one is VERY rim weighted, and the D bearing adds some extra snappiness on binds. It’s got a very unique, rounded shape was a very beefy raised rims.
I really enjoyed getting to play with these and I’m looking forward to the rest of you on the list to get a chance to try these out as well! Thank you to @Cmchappell97 so much for putting this together and letting us try out some of your designs!
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