What to do with a broken OPS?

[Aussie Joe 0]

Im thinking of getting an Easton Synergy silver model, if the stick brakes at the head is it possible to put in a tapered head and simply turn the stick around? Or is this just a BS rumour I've heard about the sticks?

[kosydar 0]

IF head=blade, then its true.

[MDE3 0]

Im thinking of getting an Easton Synergy silver model, if the stick brakes at the head is it possible to put in a tapered head and simply turn the stick around? Or is this just a BS rumour I've heard about the sticks?

I believe the Easton synergy is actually a shaft with a blade fused into it. If you look carefully you can find the joint where the shoulder of the blade butts to the shaft.

I know someone will correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the tapered blades may fit right into that recess once the original blade is removed.

If you cut the shaft around where the taper feeds into the actual blade portion of the stick, and insert a regular blade in the opposite end(butt end), that works as well. The only downside is you cannot control the length of your stick, as a butt end will not fit into the center of that part of what is now the top of the shaft as it is not hollow (below the fused point), and the upper end of your stick will now be tapered. Some feel that this makes an inferior stick, but my son has done it often and likes the result..as well as the original ops Synergy. He uses a very short stick, so length is not an issue for him.

He used Ultra Graphite blades as well as focus flex Z Carbon blades this way.

[Guest Datsyuk*13]

Yes im pretty sure thats right MDE3. That if you feel it closely you can find the joint. If im not mistaken thats also where you put the new blade in? ....if it breaks

[Eazy_b97 1]

It's normally up a little higher then where you can feel. That is where the blade is fused in, but the fused blade still has a tennon and that will still be in there, you can cut up a little higher or else chisel out the tenon. It is possible to put a tapered blade into a Synergy (if it's broken at the blade). I have one down here that I kind've salvaged and I've seen a few others do it.

[Dan_The_Man_16 0]

Actuslly I've done this with a Si-Core for a friend and when you see hold it up in the right light you can see where it's fused. Cut there, then get a rod (somthing small and thin, I used some steel rod I found in me basement) and just ram down the shaft and eventually the tenon will slide out. No clue why this works, and since I've only done it once I don't know it it always works for every Synergy but if it does, thats what you do.

[Gongshow11 1]

Dan the man is right. my @1 stick is a broken synergy shaft with modano synthesis blade. sad but true. I do liek a tapered shaft tho

[Benchboy 0]

There used to be a video floating around where some show did a tour of the Easton factory in Tijuana. They showed the shafts then a pile of blades that they fused together. The only part they didn't show was the way they are fused together.

There used to be a great tutorial on how to cut down and insert a tapered blade into a broken Synergy on Corebeam.

[kiprusoff*7 0]

you can do it you just need a tappered blade or put it in the other side i have one

[Perry94 0]

does the stick have to be upside down?

[Eazy_b97 1]

Nope, it's an option if you didn't want to cut it for a tapered blade, but it doesn't have to be upside down.

[Dan_The_Man_16 0]

If it's upside down it will not preform the same as it would as a tapered shaft.