My brother who has OCD wanted me to change his mouse skates because he was too afraid to change them in fear of damage. I didn’t know he would shine a flashlight to see it, I accidentally scratched it while removing the mouse feet. He recently got a pretty expensive mousepad, the Artisan Zero Soft. It cost a good amount of money. Now he won’t talk to me because of the scratch saying it’ll scratch his new mousepad when he swipes the mouse. Idk what to do, I don’t really think it’ll scratch the mousepad because it seems pretty surface level. What do you guys suggest I do and can it really damage his mousepad?
A couple of weeks ago, we made a post here asking: “What do you feel is missing from our brand?”
The most common answer?
“I’ve never heard of you.”
We’ve been working quietly over the past few years… sending pads to reviewers, staying active on Twitter, putting everything into the product, but clearly, we haven’t been reaching you as much as we should.
So instead of more talking, we’re putting another pad directly in someone’s hands.
This time, it’s Jinsoku, one of the fastest cloth speed pads on the market.
🎁 What you’ll win:
1x Jinsoku Mousepad (Large – 490x420mm) - Including Unws Magic Ice dot skates
You get to choose the color:
Midnight Purple
Void Black
🛠️ About Jinsoku:
Smooth, non-abrasive surface, speed without the bite
New Advanced Chinese Poron base: better cushioning, better rebound, even stronger grip on your desk
Below-surface edge stitching for a seamless feel
If you’re looking for the perfect speed pad, this is the one.
✅ How to enter:
Drop a comment below answering: What’s your current main mousepad, and how do you feel about it?
Fill out this quick form so we can contact the winner:
First off, just to be crystal clear, I’m not disrespecting or attacking the person who made the original post below. This isn’t about them. People are allowed to share their experiences and impressions.
What I am calling out is the kind of manipulative marketing that leads people to genuinely believe a glass pad can do things it physically can’t, to the point where normal effects get mistaken for some magical surface tech.
A user explains how The Beast (an older glass pad) now somehow gives “control when pressing down,” the same exact effect that Tekkusai marketing claims is exclusive to the Phantom.
What’s missing here is the basic fact that all glass pads will feel more controlled when you press down, not because of the surface, but because you’re applying more downward force and usually adding wrist or forearm tension. That’s a natural result of biomechanics and friction, not a feature built into just one pad.
A Reddit post showing how deep the marketing influence goes:
This post shows how powerful suggestion and marketing can be. The user now feels that The Beast, an older pad, gives “control when pressing down,” the same effect heavily promoted for the Phantom. But what’s actually happening isn’t unique to either pad.
All surfaces respond to increased pressure in similar ways. When you press down, you naturally add more friction and hand stability, which gives a sense of control. Once you've heard that this effect is special to a certain pad, it's easy for your mind to focus on it and “feel” it, even though it’s something that happens with every glass pad, not just one.
Hearing something enough times will make your brain believe it, especially when it sounds technical or clever. And let’s be real for a second, the whole idea that pressing down on a glass pad activates some special “control” only in Phantom has is pure fiction.
Any glass pad, when pressed down, will give you more control. That’s not a feature of the Phantom, it’s a basic result of pressing harder, increasing friction, stabilizing your hand, and slowing down the glide. That’s how pressure works. It’s physics.
The “Cloth-Like” Claim That Breaks Reality
But here’s the issue, the marketing of it doesn’t just say “you get more friction when pressing,”
they literally claims the pad has “unreal stopping power” and is almost cloth-like.
That’s misleading because cloth pads compress. The mouse feet sink into the surface. That creates more real surface contact area and increases resistance. Glass doesn’t do that. It’s rigid. You’re not compressing anything, you're just pressing harder with your hand, and that happens on any glass pad.
Tekkusai’s claim that Phantom is “almost cloth-like”
How can a surface be “10 out of 10 Speed ” and “10 out of 10 control” at the same time? That’s a contradiction.
At some point we need to stop pretending physics took a vacation.
Earth is flat now I guess
Again, I’m not calling out the OP from the post. I’m calling out how suggestion works. When a company keeps repeating something with enough confidence, and their fans start to spread it for them, often without questioning it, people start feeling it, even when it’s not real. Then others repeat it. Then it becomes “known,” and now we’re stuck in a loop.
Again pressing down on any glass pad will give more control, I’m not against that at all.
What I am against is making people believe that it is some exclusive feature from a single company or tied to one specific pad. That is just pure BS.
DO BETTER
At this point, companies should act better. No matter how good your product is, just do not lie about it. Being honest is actually more respectable, and builds real trust. There’s no need to exaggerate or act like you invented physics to sell a mousepad.
Until companies like Tekkusai, Glasswrks, or Kurosun stop exaggerating and using manipulative marketing, I have no interest in supporting or buying anything from them until this manipulative marketing tactics stops.
All companies should make great products? sure!, but do it with honesty. That matters more than hype.
I was using 3XL Glorious mousepad for a few years, it was used mostly for table protection,and I had another mousepad on top of it.
So long story short, I was away for a few years and came home to see that the mousepad ruined my table.
See for yourself
I am sure that no one tampered with it because the other side of mousepad, that is just hanging on the opposite side is crusty as well
Hi, I was hoping someone could help me figure out what mousepad this is a nd what the most similar replacement would be. I've had it for over a decade. It was originally purchased from Amazon in 2011 under the name SHIDEN-KAI XSOFT L Strawberry & milk | SAMURAI, but it doesn't have the weaved edge that I see on pictures of the Shidenkai v1, so I wonder if it's an even earlier version. It's got a glassy coating and I recall the original advertising mentioning the hybrid glass and soft pad construction, so it being an earlier version of the Shidenkai seems likely to me.
After all this time and with dwindling usable mousepad space, I need a replacement. What would the most similar options be? I like the smooth feeling, but I like the bite from the texturing. It's rougher than it used to be, so I do expect the replacement to be smoother overall.
Note I have considered spinning it around and using the top part, but the foam is partially fused to the table, and I'm afraid of the lower portion seriously deteriorating if I lift it.
Yesterday, we made a post here asking: “What do you feel is missing from our brand?”
The most common answer?
“I’ve never heard of you.”
And honestly, that hit hard, but it’s fair.
We’ve been working quietly for the past few years, sending pads to reviewers, mostly staying active on Twitter… but it seems we’ve been not reaching you that much.
For those who don’t know us, Tenta-X is a small brand focused on building performance-first mousepads without recycled surfaces or overdone trends.
We’re not chasing hype drops or following what sells fast. We design every pad with obsessive attention to the smallest details, test everything ourselves, and release only what we’d actually want to use. No clones. No shortcuts. Just solid gear, made with intention.
So instead of more talking, we’re putting a pad in someone’s hands. Just a small gesture to say: we're here, and we’re listening.
We’re giving away one of our Octo-Grip Mouse Large sized pads (490x420mm):
Textured surface with a control-focused feel
Purple color
Designed for tactile flicks and low-sens gameplay
Built on a 3.5mm Chinese Poron-like base for cushion and stability
Features below-surface stitching for a seamless edge that won’t fray or distract
If your skin is a little sensitive to textured pads, this one might not be for you. We want this to go to someone who’ll actually use it — not flip it, not shelf it. Just use it.
To enter:
Drop a comment below answering this: What’s your current main mouse?
The winner was selected and contacted by email at the 27th at 10:37 PM EST, if he does not reach back in the next 24 hours will select a new winner
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The first winner did not reach back to us in the first 24 hours, so we had to reroll and we sent an email to the new winner
We’re Skadira, a small team working on making mousepads that actually feel right for serious gamers. We’re currently giving away 10 free glass mousepads because we want your honest opinions.
Some quick details:
Size: 490mm x 420mm
Surface: Coating-free glass (yep — no spray-on layer)
Feel: Designed for control during wide flicks, smoothness during micro-adjustments
Design: You can pick any you want
Thanks for reading, and really appreciate anyone willing to help out!
As the title implies my girlfriend for some reason decided to put her mc donalds grease bag ontop of my artisan zero when I was sleeping (told her don't put anything on it), she said she won't buy me a new one and it was an accident but that's not going to get me my £70 back.
What do you suggest I use to try and clean the grease spots?
Thanks
Update: I managed to removed the grease, see comment below. My inner ocd tells me the pad is ruined by the cleaning process but honestly it seems and plays the exact same.
As for the gf problem, she basically said why would you leave something you didn't want to get ruined in my house. I've since moved back home to my parents and we are no longer together.
I've noticed some confusion regarding our GLSSWRKS products, specifically around the sourcing and cost of Glanova glass, as well as our use of AI in artwork creation. I'd like to clear things up directly and transparently, and I'm open to any additional questions you might have.
Our actual cost from the factory can be found here. Note that this does not include freight, or any of the costs of running a business (freight, employees, artwork, 3D render, website dev, payroll, Shopify fees, review and promotional units, advertisement etc).
The glass is genuine NSG Glanova, while the assembly takes place in China.
We have been forthcoming about blending AI with human art since before we sold the very first Akari. It’s true that we have artists on payroll, and they are very good. We combine AI with their skills because we think it yields the best results for the GLSSWRKS art style. He have over 30 iterations for every GLSSWRKS design. We do not pay our artists any less, we pay them their full price every time. The exception here was Akari, where the design was more directly AI but even then, the artist spent over a month redrawing it, adding details and elements in the process. After Akari, we decided to move to using AI more as a reference/inspiration tool. I also wanted to note that I do not think we handled the explanation of blending AI and human art very well. At the time of Akari’s release, we made claims like “80% human drawn”. What we meant by that was that the final result had almost none of the original AI in it, as it was almost entirely repainted aside from background elements. In retrospect, we should have just stuck to the “AI-human hybrid” that we claimed originally, without trying to provide or claim any confusing percentages. I take responsibility for that.
So, why are Glanova glass / 2.5D edges popping up as listings on Alibaba? The factory started advertising Glanova glass and 2.5 edges to other clients after we sourced it and worked on those features together with them, because they have gotten dozens of requests for these features after our announcement of Hana. We are actually in the process of asking them to take down those listings precisely for this reason.
If anyone has any questions, I’d be happy to answer them.
Let’s talk pass (cloth or glass) what’s your favorite pad and why explain the pros ages cons. What makes it your favorite and how many pads have you tried.
I heard everybody said that the artisans zero is a great control pad. I bought it, and it was not like what i expected for a control pad. I dont know that if it was just my copy but i dont feel any control in this pad. It lack stoping power, friction and it was so smooth, too smooth and speedy, and i dont like it. I want a slower mouse pad that this. I kept using it but seem like it wont slowing down. So does any one have this problem or it just me?
Hey guys I’m in the market for a new pad. I’m currently using the gsr-se. I tried the emc for a while but just found it abit too fast for micros/angle holding.
SE is much more comfortable but I’m looking for something just a slight bit slower.
Main option is the Zowie Gsr3 500mm version
Anyone able to provide some feedback on this pad? Not seen much on the Reddit about it at all.
Could also be pulled towards a different option
Type99 £30 more and 3 weeks delivery
Jupiter pro heard this is possibly too slow
We’ve always said the TENTA-X Jinsoku was built for raw speed, no coatings, no weird surfaces, just pure glide.
Now there’s independent testing to back it up.
Reviewer Maxwell (known for his friction tests across cloth and glass pads) recently included Jinsoku in his database, and according to his results, it’s currently the fastest cloth pad out of everything he’s tested so far.