Larger spike

I recently bought a bamboo Israel big brother tetrah. An insane kendama, everything is super fine, there's only one issue. I feel that the length of the spike doesn't really fit my playstyle.

Talking about a really short spike. I find it hard to land lunars, sometimes even the earthturn part of the whirlwind or slinger doesn't happen the way it should.

Do you guys have any suggestions of somehow pushing the sarado down a little bit ? I'm thinking of sanding the sword and the inside of the sarado with some skate griptape, you think that would work?

 

If your going to sand it, I would only sand the sword and use very fine sand paper. Grip tape is too rough and you might take out too much wood before you know it.

 

Just the thing I did, worked perfectly.

I also sanded the hole of the sarado and now it's really loose BUT! a friend of mine told me to use honey.

So I put a thin layer of bee honey on the sanded area around the string holes of the sword, left it overnight and when I woke up this morning it was like concrete.

Jammed my dama all day, the sarado isn't moving at all and everything's fine.

 

If the honey fix starts to wear out and doesn't work in a week or two; I received a kendama from a player on this site that had a few layers of saran wrap in-between the sword and the cups, it doesn't look pretty (trimming the excess defeats the purpose) but it definitely keeps the cups in place.
It takes some tweaking to get it into the perfect balance spot/correct layers of saran wrap, but once I discovered the saran fix I haven't done the sticky note trick, as it has the potential of leaving unwanted glue residue.

This honey trick is news to me, please post a deeper description of how you did the honey technique. I'm gonna have to try it next time this problem arrises/I over-sand my spike.

PS, Did you mean beeswax?

 

Nah, just regular honey, straight out the jar . Apply some where you want the sarado to stay, let it dry and you are ready to shred!

 

Honey.... on your dama.... to fix loose cups.









WHAT?

 

Haha I know right but it works.