Stiga Carbonado Series and Rubbers

By TT Crunch on 07 March 2020 2 minutes 2 minutes

STIGA Carbonado series was launched in 2014. It consists of 6 blades With TeXtreme® Technology Carbon. All the blades are fast blades and provide a stiff feeling. The Carbonado 45 and 90, feel more controllable and give feeling similar to OFF wood blades.

My personal preference are Carbonado 190 and 145. I felt not much noticable difference between the two blades and I like the blue handle. I felt Carbonado 245 and 290 to be very fast and 190 is better blade for me.

Carbonado Carbon and Stiga Carbonado Composition

The blades consist of 2 layers of carbon with varying carbon density.

Blade	Carbon (fibre per m2)	Direction
Carbonado 45	64	slanted
Carbonado 90	64	perpendicular
Carbonado 145	100	slanted
Carbonado 190	100	perpendicular
Carbonado 245	200	slanted
Carbonado 290	200	perpendicular

Tigearlab has done an indepth technical review about the Carbondao Series. Do check it out the Stiga Carbonado series – Overview & Lab Test

There is no official information on composition. However Yogi-bear of TableTennisDaily has shared the composition on TableTennisDaily -

Limba-Textreme Carbon-Ayous-Ayous Core-Ayous-Textreme Carbon-Limba

You can tell about the limba wood by looking at the blade yourself. This means the Carbonado series is softer outer ply compared to Koto blades.

My Personal Equipment

My personal preference is Carbonado 190 because they are both very similar with not much difference except price. Carbonado 190 is nearly 20$ cheaper than Carbonado 145. My equipment setup is