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Tom's V-Grip Paddles

By acclamation, I consent. Here, finally, are some pictures of relatively-recent-model V-grip paddles I have made.
The one I use most is the Stiga paddle, shown without rubber (but I now put black on top to minimize color contrast).
The KVP-H model is the one with the sticker on top (the KVR has no sticker). The KVP-H has Palio rubber on top, and Moristo 2000 on the bottom.
The grey material is papier maché (conformable, light, hard, sandable), over a frame of plastic mesh, nails, staples.
The drop handle is attached using 1.5-inch screws.
If you would like me to make you one, send me a paddle I can destroy, an outline of your hand drawn on paper, and a donation that makes you feel good about it (your name and address would be a good idea too).
A recent improvement (not shown!) is to thicken the drop handle at the middle finger level (it would hide the middle bone of the middle finger in this picture or its right-handed mirror), by adding 7-12mm thickness of papier mache, so that middle finger adduction rotates the paddle bottom-side-up. This improvement was discovered by Aaron Castillo: Thanks Aaron!