just found this page: http://www.racketsupply.com/shuttlecompare.htm not sure how that is useful. but kinda interesting.
nice find kwun. but wouldn't the quality of the bird cork vary from each of the same species? maybe they got the one of not so good corks on camera
sorry i was on my way out. didn't comment much on the link. it was interesting to see the different types of cork used in different brand. i don't know enough, so i don't know what to make of them though. most seems to be one single piece of cork, some are layered, some doesn't look like cork at all.
With shuttles, it's usually the quality of the feathers that is considered. I never hear anything about the quality of the cork. Nevertheless, I've used some shuttles where the feathers hold up better than the cork.
Has anyone done a similar thing with nylon shuttles? Here is my stripped and naked Mavis 300. Note that the head is a 2-piece construction, with the hemispherical portion as one piece and the cylindrical portion as the other. -Rick
Maybe that's the most economical way to make them--make cork spheres, cut them in half, and combine them with sections of cork cylinders.
i doubt that... it's very difficult to make spheres from wood... compared to other shapes anyway. I'd imagine they have lathe with the drill at the front to make the half-hemisphere, and then another lathe with the drill at the side to make the cylinder. This would be the easiest way to make it. Having two drill bits on a single lathe would make it difficult to design a high-speed process since there wouldn't be enough access for the machines to put in the unlathed cork and eject the finnished cork.
the plastic skirt and feathers are inserted into the cork differently. I can see why the plastic shuttle's cork is two piece construction. Overall the mavis 300 cork look pretty decent quality.
