Blade X: What Makes a Dartboard Truly Professional?
A professional dartboard is defined by performance at the highest level of the game. It is the standard trusted by the PDC (Professional Darts Corporation) on the biggest stages in world darts, under the most demanding conditions, by players of the highest calibre.
Crucially, professional quality is not determined by first appearance. It is measured by consistency over time and how predictably the board plays after months of elite-level use, not just on day one.
This is the principle behind Blade X.
Engineered for Long-Life Consistency
Blade X has been developed as a fully integrated system. Rather than relying on a single headline feature, its performance is delivered through connected technologies working together to maintain predictable play, durability, and recovery under sustained, high-volume use.
Key advances include:
• A patented structural bezel with a revolving number ring
• Further refinement of the Blade wire system
• A deeper, adapted sisal construction aligned to modern dart points and playing styles
The result is a board that maintains scoring consistency throughout its entire lifespan and performs reliably in televised professional competition.
Pro Core Technology: Multi-Layer Performance
At the centre of Blade X is a next-generation multi-layer core structure.
Precision-engineered sisal layering reduces surface resistance to deliver clean dart entry across all weights and throwing styles. Beneath this, a compressed inner core absorbs kinetic energy, supports fibre recovery, and maintains structural integrity over time.
The fibre length has been increased to accommodate modern, more aggressive dart points, significantly improving durability and long-term performance.
Density Control in Critical Scoring Zones
Professional play concentrates wear in predictable areas. Blade X addresses this with patented Density Control technology.
By optimising sisal compression in key scoring zones and directing fibres away from areas prone to hardening, the system improves dart acceptance, recovery, and longevity. This ensures that the areas players rely on most retain consistent performance throughout the board’s life.
The Deepest Sisal Bed Ever Produced
Blade X features a 13% deeper sisal bed, achieved through the use of a thinner, premium-layered hardwood backboard.
This allows darts to penetrate deeper and sit more securely, reducing bounce-outs and improving stability, particularly important with the increased prevalence of longer points in the modern game.
Each board is manufactured using premium-grade Kenyan sisal – the world’s finest sisal. Selected for strength and purity, delivering fibre density in excess of 5.5 million fibres per board for unrivalled consistency and responsiveness.
Blade Wire Technology: Precision Without Compromise
The Blade wire system represents over 25 years of continuous refinement.
Constructed from 26 individual components, the web is designed to interlock without welding, allowing it to remain flat and responsive under sustained impact. Wires are angled at 60 degrees to guide darts into scoring zones, reducing deflections and bounce-outs.
This flexible, precision-engineered system allows tight groupings and maintains scoring integrity far longer than rigid welded alternatives.
Structural Integrity from Front to Back
Blade X introduces the strongest backboard construction ever developed by Winmau.
A premium layered hardwood base is reinforced with advanced carbon fibre bonding that penetrates the sisal layer, delivering exceptional strength, durability, and shape retention. This structural foundation ensures the board maintains consistent performance even under extreme, high-volume use.
Precision Mounting System is engineered to provide the perfect foundation for elite dartboard performance. Featuring the pioneering Rota-Lock levelling system, it allows for effortless alignment, ensuring the board sits true every time. The steel-threaded mounting delivers exceptional strength and long-term stability, while magnetic accessory attachments offer seamless integration with compatible additions. Designed with precision, durability, and heritage in mind, it’s the professional standard for secure installation.
Stability Where It Matters Most
Bullseye Engineering
The bull is one of the most heavily impacted areas of any dartboard. Blade X features a fully machined bullseye with a stable tripod structure that sits on the surface of the board, allowing surrounding fibres to move freely.
This design prioritises long-term consistency and durability rather than short-term appearance.
Rotating Number Ring System
A precision laser-cut steel number ring rotates through 360° without removal. Concealed within a structural polymer bezel, it improves longevity, protects the board edge, stabilises the ring, and delivers a clean aesthetic suitable for broadcast environments.
The World’s Most Tested Dartboard
Blade X has undergone the most rigorous testing programme ever applied to a Winmau dartboard.
Testing focuses on high-volume lifecycle performance, fibre recovery, durability, and board-to-board consistency over time. Professional testers throw up to six million darts annually, with performance measured daily and fed back into a highly controlled, data-driven quality system.
Blade X is designed to act as the industry reference standard, defining what professional performance looks like and how it should endure.
Professional Standard, Universal Application
Blade X is the dartboard of choice for televised main-stage events, but it is built for any player seeking the most consistent and durable playing experience available.
It allows players to practice and compete on the same benchmark standard used at the highest level of the game, a board engineered not for first impressions, but for long-term, predictable performance.
What elevates a dartboard to professional status is not a single innovation, but consistency, longevity, and how multiple systems function as one. Blade X brings together deeper sisal construction of the finest sisal in the world sourced from Kenya, density control, refined wiring, and reinforced structure to ensure stability and consistency under sustained elite play. The result is a board that performs reliably in real competitive environments and continues to do so long after others fall away.
Explore the Blade X range HERE.
Blade X - Official PDC Dartboard
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