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Ahh my brother from another mother!! I've worn glasses for most of my life and am very short sighted. I wear glasses for everything other than close up activities such as reading and you guessed it, stringing racquets. Believe you me, feeding crosses through small black grommets when the...

There is this enduring perception that o-port racquets are difficult to string and require boomerangs, turntable locks, 50/50 stringing etc. I have three o-port racquets and find them as easy to string as any other racquet, and in some aspects slightly easier. Just use a sharpie in the ports...

I think the whole point of owning your own stringing machine is that you can experiment as often as you like with different strings, gauges, tensions etc. Yes it is cheaper if you string your own and yes you can string for others, but for me, as a player and equipment nerd the real pleasure is...

Tension preferences are such an individual choice it's difficult to make recommendations. As a guide, in my Prince Tour 100 with 18x20, I string full bed with the Wilson s/g at anywhere between 48-51. In the 16x18 version of the same stick, between 53-55. These are both low powered, extremely...

I used a range of racquets when returning from TE surgery some 10 years ago including the PK 5G, Volkl V1 and Prince EXO3 and Tour 100 (o-ports). While I can attest that the 5G is indeed elbow friendly it does come down to the feel you want from the racquet. I found that the 5G while elbow...

@fuzz nation Agree with everything you say here. PPC is a very underrated multi and does everything well at a reasonable price. I also find Gosen OGSM too stiff in 16 & 17 gauges but don't mind it in 18g. I'm also using Kirschbaum 16g syn gut at present full bed although my fav full bed in my...

No that's gotta be Waterworld!

Totally agree @jbdbackfan. When I use my Phantom Pro 100 or Phantom 100X 290 I string with mostly full bed syn gut or multi in the range of 44-48. Sometimes with the Pro 100 I'll hybrid syn gut m/poly X at 46-42. At those low tensions I find more than enough power to match nicely the control...

Nice review of the 100X 16x18 and interestingly the reviewer really liked the colorway. He tested it stock and claimed he could take the racquet as is straight into tournament play which is a very positive recommendation. I have to say I'm warming much more to the Camo green colorway just...

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Gotta agree with you (once again) @Crocodile. I've always been a grip 5 player with one overgrip and bemoan the lack of grip 5 and now grip 4 racquets. The only saving grace is that I use only Prince racquets and their grip sizes have definitely increased through the years. I recently picked...

I had very similar symptoms to yours, suspected Piriformis, no response to therapy, turned out to be bulging disc at L3-L4. Had partial discectomy from top neurosurgeon, back to tennis 6 months later. Not fully successful as some further particles of the disc broke off and impact on the spinal...

@Crocodile if you're referring to the orange/black Tour 100 18x20 and 16x18 sticks they were the pinnacle of the ported Princes IMO. Still use them both and they've got comfort, control, spin and enough power. Got into them in 2014 when returning to tennis after a two year break with TE and...

True to a point @Crocodile but as it is an 18x20 and very flexible, it can be strung at a very low tension and still have great control, more power and a bigger sweetspot. I sometimes use a Phantom Pro 100 with the 16x18 pattern and I string syn gut or multi in it at 42. It plays with...

To the OP, I know this is a long read but you may find my own battle and ultimately successful surgical repair for TE helpful. Here is the link: http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/prp-injection-for-tennis-elbow-successful-or-not.467017/ I remain free of TE some 11 years after the...

Yes agree with this. I've never really taken to defining grips with the heel of the hand or index finger knuckle positions - it's all about where the palm of the hand rests. Simply, if the palm rests on bevel 3, it's Eastern and so on. It's easy to envisage as the palm corresponds directly to...

Actually the more I look at the photos of the new Phantom the more I'm kind of accepting of the colorway. Not saying it looks great, but it's certainly different and not particularly offensive. Best colorway was the black and green of the original Phantom range. The designers nailed the classic...

One of the great things about the Klippermate is not only the lifetime warranty but the great after sales service by the company. I'm in Australia and I've had a few parts fail over the last twenty years and Klipper has shipped the parts to Australia very promptly and without question. They...

What is Kirschbaum Synthetic Gut Premium? I've just bought (very inexpensive) a reel of Kirschbaum Synthetic Gut which I'm yet to string, but was not aware there was a Premium version.

Agree. I find I string my EXO3 Tour 100 18x20, Tour 100 18x20 and Tour 100 16x18 sticks as quickly as any sticks I string. What time I lose using a Sharpie as a spacer on those top 6 crosses is made up by feeding the crosses more quickly through the larger ports. And to an earlier poster, to...

I've got a feeling I strung my sister's Silver Ace for her many years ago and when I get back from my vacation next week I'll check my records to see if I did and if it was two piece.

Exactly. Bought my sister the Silver Ace in 1982 when I went to Hong Kong and she still has it in her garage (along with her husband's Golden Ace). I bought a Copper Ace here in Brisbane, Australia from a tennis shop called Prickett and Farthing for around $80 in the mid eighties. It was a...

True, and I'm one of them, but many 63+ players have or had TE and GE problems and poly is a risk that is best avoided. And I'm one of them.

I've always found that the KM stringbed to be considerably tighter than what I've experienced from most Pro Shop stringers. And Racquet Tune confirms that the strung tension produced by a KM to be pretty accurate.

Totally right @PRS. Absolutely no benefit from poly, in fact most likely to be harmful. Syn gut probably best way to go because of cost/performance benefit or multi if budget allows. In fact one of the older guys (77) I string for had one of his Ti. S6 racquets strung with poly by another...

Wilson Syn Gut Power 16. I string a few Ti. S6 racquets for some very good senior players (one played with Laver and Rosewall as a ranked junior) and they love this very comfortable, soft string at 62. Obviously old style flat and slice strokes and they only restring every one to two years

@Steve Huff the couple that throws racquets together stays together LoL!!!

@dannyslicer it's your racquet and as you said, it played fine, and as your strings last about 5 hours, all good. For me, personally and for clients, I'd cut my losses, cut all string out and start again. And the loss was not that great given that you'd only strung 7 mains. It'd do my head in...

I've just received a new double string clamp under warranty from Klipper and the four screws that govern the clamp width are now much longer than the previous generation. This allows the clamp to open much wider to more easily clamp the first and last couple of wider spaced crosses. Dave from...

Perhaps it's an Australian English thing, but "likewise" in the context I expressed it refers to the assumption written in the previous sentence. In other words, the strings mentioned don't stretch much and are also easy to string on the Klippermate. And yes in my experience that has always...