Field Hockey Stick Carbon Content Explained | How to Choose a Field Hockey Stick (Part 3 of 7)
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- Опубліковано 26 лис 2017
- Field hockey stick carbon content / percentage explained , what does it all mean ? For more in detail help , message us at www.crownhockey.com or find us on / crown_hockey we'd love to hear from you!
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Love the video. interesting information about stick manufacturing
Hi Harsharan, thank you very much for your message. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Anything else you thinking might be interested for us to create a video on, give us a shout. :]
Looking at the brand for my next stick 🔥🔥🔥🤘🏻
Thanks
Good video, I'm keeping my eye on this brand
I will definitely try it in the future, maybe after my gryphon tour pro (2017) breaks
Usually I find my sticks crack inside, I think this may be the wear and tear of hitting but so far my gryphon is good. Well see how crown goes when I eventually get one
Awesome! great to hear QuantumFrost :] We look forward to hearing from you :]
Have you bought one? I’d like some feedback about them
Right now, as we‘re playing indoor in Germany, I‘m using a Grays GX7000 I got from eBay for about 30€. I’m a goalie and I really love it’s stiffness as it helps me clear the ball from my D. I don’t need to add that much power when I deflect a ball. When we’re playing outdoor, I tend to switch between a TK goalie stick and a Gryphon Aero goalie stick, but both feel a bit like a bad compromise to me. The TK is perfectly balanced but lacks the goalie head shape and is a bit too soft, whilst the Gryphon has goalie head and is a very powerful stick to hit a ball with, but it’s not that well balanced. It feels to heavy after while.
I really wonder what a Crown Hockey goalie stick would feel like... ;)
Or even a normal Crown Hockey stick, as I’ve never head the chance to try one so far.
Are there any goalies you know of that are using one of your sticks in goal?
HI Gerald, goalies like to use out mid-bow because its a lot flatter on the face of the stick its more predictable for passing, stopping and deflecting the ball. And because we make all of our stick in the UK we can put the balance point closer to where you hold the stick so that its more evenly balanced and quicker to move. Hope that helps. Its the "handle balance" option from our custom page :] crownshop.myshopify.com/products/the-crown-custom?variant=34684206541
Thank you very much for reading :]
I really like the crown sticks but there just out of my budget soz 😩
Then you should get more money
I have to laugh. At last someone in the trade admits that "100% carbon fiber" is a nonsense tag. Is that 100% by weight or by volume? The answer to both those questions must be "No", even if we regard the combination of carbon and resin as carbon fiber. Many such sticks have a hollow handle, some handles/heads contain flattened or D shape twin tubes and some are foam filled, so forget 100% carbon by volume. E glass and S glass are glass fibers with very different properties to common glass fiber and S glass may be superior in strength to carbon. Aramid fiber (Kevlar) has vastly differing characteristics when used as a braid as compared with a unidirectional roving lay up.
I would say that using carbon fiber as a braid will come at the cost of 60% of its unidirectional strength (stiffness on the length of a stick). Any sort of weave will hold idle resin (resin that is doing no more than providing weight). Once a resin has wetted out a fiber (coated it in resin) any additional resin trapped in a weave is largely wasted unless extra weight is required, possibly in the head part for example.
I am bemused by those who write about their composite stick wearing out. A properly reinforced hockey stick will never break and will never wear out, if any sand abrasion to the head is regularly repaired (with Araldite 2011 or similar). My hockey sticks, which are wooden bats reinforced with a hybrid carbon glass unidirectional fiber (2 x 100mm) part overlaid with Aramid braid (shaft above the head) and finished with a finely woven glass fiber cloth impregnated with coloured resin, were assembled, using heat-shrink tubing, in 1991 and they are as strong and stiff now as they were after the resin had cured thirty years ago. It's me that has weakened not the sticks (I didn't really need to assemble more than one for my own use but had got used to carrying a pair in the era before proper reinforcement could easily be carried out.
Great insight, thank you very much for the comment, maybe we should film an video that goes into a lot more detail regarding this topic. We definitely agree that the hockey term "100% carbon" needs to stop, it is extremely misleading.
@@CrownHockey I hope I didn't give the impression that I have reinforced only two sticks, as I have done many hundreds. I used to be in the trade myself and imported raw bats from Pakistan for a number of years. Once I had visited Pakistan and seen how 'thinners' was mixed with resin as it started to go off, to keep it liquid and make it go further, I determined to do the carbon reinforcing myself rather than have the material wasted. No wonder some fiberglass tape unraveled like the whip of a spinning top - given a loose end and a flick of the wrist.
I believe most manufacturers are now using prepreg, vacuum chambers and heat, rather than raw fibers and liquid resin mixes, and a more reliable product is being made.I hope so. I expected the price of hockey sticks to go down when they could be made with semi-skilled labour and did not require the ever scarcer mulberry timber - not increase about five-fold, even if reinforcement fibers and (particularly) resin prices have 'gone through the roof'.
@@CrownHockey It might help if people knew what the 100% is 100% of. I found that on average reinforcing a wooden bat added 3 ozs. to the weight of it. At least a third of that weight would have been resin. So the reinforcement fibers were less than 2 oz but the reinforced stick would weight around 21ozs. There may be more fiber in a modern stick because there is no wooden core but about half of its volume is of course air or a foam filler - so 100% is 100% of the fiber used, which , to put it kindly, is an inaccuracy.
I did a few 100% carbon fiber reinforcements. They sounded like a tuning fork when striking or stopping a ball and, 'stung' the hands when striking, not at all comfortable to play with.
I hate singapore cus
1pound is 1.68 sgd
1.78