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RetroBlast Video Review: SlikStik Ball-top Stainless Steel Joysticks
KevSteele:
--- Quote from: jakejake28 on August 22, 2003, 12:55:01 am ---yea, you do really good reviews, good enough at least for slikstik it seems :P
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Let's not go there again... ::)
--- Quote from: Vectoraster on August 22, 2003, 12:50:32 am ---They all hit the perfect balance between professionalism and nerdiness.
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Once again, thanks for the nice and yet oddly distrubing compliment. ;)
Kevin
Bursk:
--- Quote from: kevsteele on August 21, 2003, 08:25:52 pm ---Bursk,
Apparently SlikStik has found some new shipper for overseas shipping, and their overseas rates are supposed to be much lower now. Sorry I don't have the details, but you might want to email them and check.
I know that they've changed their US shipper as well after shopping around for quotes on shipping their new DIY cab.
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Thanks, Kevin. I'm still going to build my own CP, but it's nice to know that it won't cost too much to buy (and have shipped) some of these SS sticks from SlikStik.
Would it be sensible to buy them with the bases attached? I was thinking about getting the 'Optical Pear Top Option 2' for $120. Any thoughts on this idea?
Xiaou2:
From looking at the Video... it appears the ball top isnt really that big. Its probably about the same size as the sini-joy I made. However... the post that it sits on it too thick... thus you cant comfortably wrap your fingers arround the bottom... because it spreads them too far appart (painfull and awkward).
I had this happen on my fist verision of the sinijoy.... whicn is why I know how uncomfortable they are!, thus you having to palm them. A horrible design if you ask me.
KevSteele:
Bursk,
If you've already got the joysticks, there's no sense in buying the "pre-assembled" version just to get the SS handles. They're really easy to install, aside from popping off the "e" clamp for the first time.
Personally, I'd buy the joysticks and the handles separately, just so that I had two different handles to choose from.
Xiaou2,
The ball is bigger than you would expect, and you're right, the shaft is fairly thick as well (but I actually didn't notice that when playing).
The way I grip balltops is with my first two fingers and thumb wrapped around the ball, and my bottom two fingers wrapped around the shaft. With the SS balltops the ball is too big for this type of grip, and I end up with all five fingers wrapped around the ball.
It's different, which is why I pointed it out in the review. I do think that the size of the ball will help prevent my "Robotron blisters" that I usually get on the side of my ring fingers, since those fingers are no longer wedged at the edge of the balltop and the shaft. We'll see.
Kevin
Bursk:
Kevin,
I don't actually have any parts yet - I'm still in the planning stages. I do have a list of what I'd like to get though, so I was wondering if it'd be cheaper to buy the 360s from SlikStik, rather than from Happs (with me then ordering the SS Pears from SlikStik). I would assume that it'd be cheaper to just get the complete thing from SlikStik, but at the same time I'm not sure what postage would be.
I was just typing aloud really. I always value educated peoples' input, so I tend to ask lots of (sometimes unnecessary) questions. Don't mind me!
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