Well after making a point to step the Blade mast when I was at the Alter Cup I have to say I see no reason to move to Carbon. The blade mast was really nice. Very light for it's size. I was really impressed with it. So what if you drop the weight buy a few pounds. At what cost is that few pounds going to come at? Carbon is a ton more expensive because of the labor involved in building it. I bet it takes (I'm guessing) 80 hours to build one. 80x$25=$2000 just in labor. An aluminum mast probably takes about 1 hour to build tops. So compare $2000 to $25 and tell me which has a built in cost? I have no dog in this fight but I can't imagine why you would move to carbon in the F16 class. I've seen a lot of classes messed up by moving to higher and higher tech.

Mike Hill
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