Remeshok Chetki - Acrylic Beavertail Editions

Remeshok Chetki - Acrylic Beavertail Editions

The Beavertail Edition of our popular Remeshok chetki feature an elongated end bead, tapered to a stout thickness at the outer end, and rounded for a comfortable experience. The acrylics are lighter than the delrin versions, with a crisp, bright clack due to the harness of the material, and great control thanks to the light weight, the lengthy beavertail end plates, and in the case of polished models, the grippy polished surface.

The Beavertails are thus named not because they particularly look like beavertails.. but rather, based on the naming convention for longer, thinner canoe paddles, because they're super slappy (as you'll soon find out), and also, obviously, because Canada, eh. They have a sleek appearance, but it's not just aesthetics. These extended ends have a somewhat surprising effect of locking the ends into place between the fingers. They are narrow enough to slip through the fingers with ease, but when there is tension at an angle, the beads act like a lever. This effectively prevents them from slipping through the fingers when you don’t want them too, and also creates a springiness as the tension is absorbed and released during play. 

Since the Beavertails are longer than any end beads we’ve launched to date, we’ve found it wise to shorten up the length of the joining section between the ends. For the new Beavertail mods, we’ve trimmed it down to 16+2. The overall length in each case is similar.

Acrylic Swirl

Lightweight and resilient materials are extremely well suited for chetki. Add to that a bit of grip, and you're off to the races. This month we are excited to launch our exceedingly popular beavertail chetki, a mod of our original remeshok design, in the glorious new acrylics we've sourced. These beautiful sets are rounded and polished to perfection. They play light and fast, with excellent grip to keep them from flying off the fingers, and those "beavertail" ends that anchor between the fingers so well.

Clear Acrylic

Clear acrylic has been a favourite for a long time, and we go way back to the early introduction of our clear acrylic “ice” knucklebones back in 2018 or so. The material is light, durable, and beautiful, as well as being relatively inexpensive compared to a lot of the other options.

Clear Acrylic Beavertails are available in your choice of a lovely soft machine finish, or a grippier and brighter polished finish. Please be aware that polished pieces don’t hold their polish indefinitely, and will scratch up relatively quickly. Although the material has a good hardness, it is nonetheless a plastic and even a loud noise is likely to scuff them a little. All pieces are shipped new but may have small abrasion marks on them from the post production handling and assembly process. Any pieces with major scratches will be kicked out by our team before packing, but we ask for your understanding of smaller shallower marks, particularly on the long end pieces.

Details

• Material: 
  • Acrylic Swirl Pearlescent Blue ~ 18.5g
  • Acrylic Swirl Pearlescent Pink ~ 18.5g
    
  • Blue-Pink-white swirl Acrylic, 18g
  • Clear Acrylic, 19.1g
    • Finish: Machined and Polished
• Components: 16x middle stripe beads; 2x end plates

Our January 2025 Launch Preview video below dives deep on these guys, and provides some ideas for the types of usage and manipulations possible with them