The 3D-printed handle: the only part your hand actually touches
Updated: 2 days ago
Between the frame and the hand sits one part nobody really chooses: the handle. The market offers five sizes, L0 to L5, and every player takes the least wrong one.
This is not a comfort detail. The handle is the only interface through which the racquet speaks to you, and the only one through which you speak to it. Everything it does goes through there.
What an approximate size costs — the elbow when the handle is too thin, the wrist and the change of grip when it is too thick — is set out in detail in our guide to grip size. This article starts where that one leaves off: what you do when the L0–L5 grid is not enough.
What 3D printing changes
A printed handle is not a size in a catalogue: it is a geometry. Circumference, bevel shape and width, taper, working length — each of these is a number you choose, not a consequence of a mould.
This handle is also interchangeable: the same racquet can take another geometry without touching the frame. A player hesitating between two shapes no longer has to decide at purchase.
The handle is printed in high-temperature polyamide reinforced with carbon fibre (PAHT-CF). Each piece is produced to order, inspected and hand-finished before assembly: this is workshop work, not a production line.
Length: adjustable, and included
The printed handle opens a parameter the mould closes: length. We adjust it by ± 0.5 inch in 0.25-inch steps, and that adjustment is included, at no extra charge, on any racquet configured with us. Half an inch more lengthens the lever and the swingweight; half an inch less hands the racquet back to the wrist. It is a choice, not an option.
What it does not do
A fitted handle gives no power, corrects no faulty grip and replaces no setup. It removes an obstruction. That is exactly what we ask of it: nothing between you and the ball.
How yours is defined
The geometry is worked out from the shape of your hand, the grip you play most often on the forehand, and the way you hold the backhand — one-handed or two-handed, the constraint on working length is not the same. It is taken with us, through the contact form or at the time of ordering. If you would rather first understand what the rest of the racquet decides, the Understand page and the weight, balance and swingweight guide set the scene.
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