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The gateway guys tried to overmold a Wizard way back in the day (6 years ago?) They didn't have the technology to make it work though. They basically hand cut two Wizards run in different plastics and tried to bake them together, I think.

For me, an overstable mid was typically useful for 2 or 3 different shots. A 200-250ft forehand shot, if I hadn't been throwing many forehands at the time. A Demon thrown hard would never turn over with anything close to reasonable form, and without much glide, seemed to have a predictable...

The Element and Warrior work reasonably well as a combo. The Element works better when you're powering down and want a straighter flight. At long ranges it tends to get a little more squirrelly. The Warrior has some turn at low speed if you need it, and flies pretty straight at long distance.

The Demon is useful for players that don't throw forehand very often, so they can carry a disc they know won't turn over and is grippy in plenty of conditions. Or some shorter approaches through trees might have an S curve line you can hit more easily with a Demon, than throwing straight. I...

Maybe more like a jelly doughnut. Ran the disc in a certain plastic, cut the flight plate out, then ran a different plastic in the mold to fill in the flight plate.

Looks a lot like a couple prototypes I got from Gateway years ago. They tried running some Wizards and overmolding them, but I don't think any of the plastics they had would bond together very well. I think they ran the rims first, then tried to get a flight plate to attach. Since the flight...

If you want to try and change the stabilities of discs, warm/boiling water will work. If you put boiling water in an upside down disc and allow it to flatten, it should get more overstable in most instances. The outside rim should get pulled up toward the flight plate during this process. If...

I always thought they were great discs for one disc rounds, as with enough height you can bomb them, while still approaching and putting with a neutral stability disc. They also were handy for navigating lines through trees where you need finesse and glide. Without much snap, you could make...

I always felt the final run CE TLs were a decent bit slower than previous runs. The bunch I have all seem to be pretty uniformly domey and a bit blunt nosed, in comparison to earlier CE TLs, which varied from flat and fast or domey but knife edged. The reduction in speed gave them less initial...

Retailers don't like you to know which discs are which, and run numbers make that easy. If its easy to tell, their shelves will be full of the bad molds as folks pick the good ones out. Then the shops return the bad ones to the disc manufacturer. Plenty of electronics manufacturers do the...

I've always struggled to throw midranges down tight alleys with a low ceiling where I don't want too much fade. If I have to concentrate on putting too much snap on a disc to keep it from hyzering out due to lack of spin, I tend to miss my alleys. The Clear Evolution Element works pretty well...

For a while I carried a 119g Wizard for longer putts. It worked surprisingly well, even in wind, though my confidence was never there while windy. If you feel like you've got decent putting form, but lack for power, switching to a lighter disc can help you extend the range greatly. The 119g...

I have a Raging Inferno DT that's in the 130g range. My max typical driving distance backhand is 375' on a golf line, but with a bit of a tailwind especially uphill that light RI-DT will carry 400ft pretty easy. You can also get surprising distance out of a 120g Speed Demon... I think for...

From my memory, the Sabre and the Apache were originally the exact same mold. The Sabre was run in stuff like the current S Plastic, the Apache was run in a more durable Urethane type plastic. The Blaze/Warrior were the same deal. That original urethane plastic made the Sabre/Blaze much more...

I have a couple Millennium Tachyon LF 4.1's which are crazy overstable 150g discs. Not the fastest things in the world (they're based on the Viper I believe) but pretty overstable.