HellsBells
Rookie
Was going to buy one but it seemed a lot cheaper to make one myself!
The key thing for me was to get parts allowed the bar that the racquet rested to be able to rotate, so that the racquet could easily be moved up and down the scale to find the balance point (as opposed to moving the racquet by hand)
In short, I settled for:-
- 1 x 0.9mm wooden dowell
- 2 x M12 nuts
- any board of your choice (depending on your preference for weight, material quality, thickness etc)
All of these were easy to find. I also realised that Ikea had those free paper measuring tapes which would be perfect, so I picked up one of those along with a plank of wood that they sold as a shelf part.
I decided to make a mock up first using cardboard and double sided tape (rather than glue) to make sure everything worked as it should, and it did! All of it took less than 5 minutes to measure, mark out and assemble.
All for the princely sum of less than $5!
In fact, Ikea was a pretty good source of random materials that could be used as the board. They had some really nice high quality wood chef chopping boards which would have worked (though a bit heavy), also some plastic perspex flat pieces which would have worked, and a multitude of different small machined steel drawer knobs that could be attached to the end of the dowell. Might do a Mk2 deluxe version!
The key thing for me was to get parts allowed the bar that the racquet rested to be able to rotate, so that the racquet could easily be moved up and down the scale to find the balance point (as opposed to moving the racquet by hand)
In short, I settled for:-
- 1 x 0.9mm wooden dowell
- 2 x M12 nuts
- any board of your choice (depending on your preference for weight, material quality, thickness etc)
All of these were easy to find. I also realised that Ikea had those free paper measuring tapes which would be perfect, so I picked up one of those along with a plank of wood that they sold as a shelf part.
I decided to make a mock up first using cardboard and double sided tape (rather than glue) to make sure everything worked as it should, and it did! All of it took less than 5 minutes to measure, mark out and assemble.
All for the princely sum of less than $5!
In fact, Ikea was a pretty good source of random materials that could be used as the board. They had some really nice high quality wood chef chopping boards which would have worked (though a bit heavy), also some plastic perspex flat pieces which would have worked, and a multitude of different small machined steel drawer knobs that could be attached to the end of the dowell. Might do a Mk2 deluxe version!