Customize your BALTO with unique colour combinations or modify the weight to your liking.
These packs are all about creating your perfect set of BALTO chetki.
Corn allergy warning: POWDER material is a corn based biopolymer. We recommend our JET material which is polyester based if you are sensitive to touching corn.
SPECIFICATIONS
Tile: 20mm wide, 9mm long, 7mm thick
Paddle: 21.5 + 1mm wide, 35mm long, 9.5 + 1mm thick
Bead: 10mm outer bore, 3.5mm inner bore
Weight: approx 1g per powder tile, 6.5g per powder paddle, 2g per 3DEE tile.
Includes: 2 tiles or 1 end paddles
THE DESIGN
Born of a desire to introduce additional options for Russian style chetki play for the Begleri and EDC community the BALTO went through 90+ design iterations before it was ready. The last few revisions had notes along the lines of "please stop making changes". Luckily we listened.
The core design goal was to respect standard chetki sizing and tension while allowing them to be worn comfortably.
THE MATERIAL
Created from a composite material via modern 3D printing methods the BALTO beauty is in the balanced randomness of layer lines and colour variations.
The exact blends are selected after touching numerous material print samples in varying stages of post processing.
The final selection for non glow Powder materials contains carbon fiber blended into a propriety PLA which results in a beautiful molted finish with varied levels of pigmentation.
Jet material contains carbon fiber blended into a propriety PETG base.
Galaxy/fantasy/glow replace the carbon fibre with the relevant fill to achieve varied visual effects.
"Raw" parts are gently post processed to bring out the natural aesthetics without removing the texture. Printer lines and imperfections will be visible.
"Satin" parts are heavily processed to a semi gloss finish. It could also be described as a beach glass finish. Minor imperfections will be visible under close inspection.
"Smooth" parts are heavily processed to a smooth finish. Minor imperfections will be visible under close inspection.
A note on durability: Powder (PLA) is a very rigid material offering high surface hardness relative to other thermoplastics such as ABS and PETG. This is increased further when combined with carbon fiber. Durability of non filled PLA is a step under Delrin based on the Rockwell R scale.
Jet (PETG) offers a lower rigidity and scratch resistance while increasing UV and temperature resistance.
Long term UV exposure as well as high heat (above 60c, 140f) should be avoided for the "powder" materials.
3DEE metal is UV resistant and will not deform up to 100c under no load conditions.
Alternative "JET" materials with high heat and UV resistance is also available.
