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  "id": "selkirk-labs-project-008",
  "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/paddles/selkirk-labs-project-008",
  "brand": "Selkirk",
  "model": "LABS Project 008",
  "year": 2025,
  "launch": {
    "date": "2025-02-04",
    "precision": "day",
    "label": "Feb 4"
  },
  "lifecycle": "limited",
  "listPriceUsd": 288,
  "listPriceLabel": "",
  "build": "foam",
  "buildLabel": "Full foam (Gen 4)",
  "thickness": "10 / 13 / 16mm",
  "shapes": "Elongated",
  "pro": null,
  "summary": "Selkirk's first full-foam paddle, released through the LABS feedback program days after CRBN's Genesis. Pickleheads rated the 16mm 4.5/5 as a top-tier control paddle with little power. It was the platform Selkirk built the Boomstik on six months later.",
  "construction": "Selkirk's first high-density PureFoam core, thermoformed with a foam perimeter wall under a T700 raw carbon face. The 13mm shipped first, the 16mm went to preorder and the 10mm was slated for mid-spring.",
  "core": {
    "layers": [
      "100% PureFoam high-density foam",
      "foam perimeter wall"
    ],
    "face": "T700 raw carbon fiber",
    "edge": "",
    "source": "https://www.pickleheads.com/pickleball-gear/selkirk-labs-project-008-review"
  },
  "variants": [
    {
      "name": "Project 008 16mm Tour",
      "shape": "elongated",
      "lengthIn": 16.45,
      "widthIn": 7.5,
      "handleIn": 6,
      "thicknessMm": 16,
      "weightOz": "7.9-8.3",
      "sw": 116.6,
      "tw": null,
      "specSource": "https://www.pickleheads.com/pickleball-gear/selkirk-labs-project-008-review"
    }
  ],
  "status": {
    "usap": "unknown",
    "usapSource": null,
    "upaa": "unknown",
    "upaaSource": null,
    "quiet": false,
    "patent": "none-known",
    "investigation": null,
    "lifecycle": "limited"
  },
  "certNote": "",
  "timeline": [
    {
      "date": "2025-02-04",
      "precision": "day",
      "kind": "launch",
      "text": "Launch: Feb 4.",
      "source": "https://www.selkirk.com/pages/press-releases/selkirk-sport-introduces-labs-project-008-pickleball-paddle-with-revolutionary-pure-foam-core-technology"
    }
  ],
  "labs": [
    {
      "lab": "Pickleheads",
      "kind": "review",
      "url": "https://www.pickleheads.com/pickleball-gear/selkirk-labs-project-008-review"
    },
    {
      "lab": "other",
      "kind": "review",
      "url": "https://weartesters.com/selkirk-labs-project-008-review/"
    }
  ],
  "colorways": [],
  "madeIn": null,
  "warranty": null,
  "notes": null,
  "productUrl": "https://www.selkirklabs.com/collections/project-008",
  "sources": [
    "https://www.selkirk.com/pages/press-releases/selkirk-sport-introduces-labs-project-008-pickleball-paddle-with-revolutionary-pure-foam-core-technology",
    "https://www.pickleheads.com/pickleball-gear/selkirk-labs-project-008-review"
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "image": "https://pointcast.xyz/images/og/paddles/selkirk-labs-project-008.png"
}