macattack
Professional
There's been a lot of talk about how bad Wilson's quality control is, as well as the QC of most major racquet companies these days. And often in those threads Yonex is help up as a company that has much stricter QC standards.
I completely agree that Yonex does a much better job than most companies (Angell, excluded of course, but they're a special case) when it comes to static weight and balance. I have two RD-7s. One pre-97 logo and one post-97 logo so they're definitely not from the same batch. The weight and balance are both bang on, exact. However, with the swing weight there is a 20 point difference. The newer one is 345 and the older is 325. That's huge. So do manufacturers generally NOT take swing weight into account when creating tolerances for their factories?
(P.S. love my RD-7s and love Yonex so not hate meant by this post)
I completely agree that Yonex does a much better job than most companies (Angell, excluded of course, but they're a special case) when it comes to static weight and balance. I have two RD-7s. One pre-97 logo and one post-97 logo so they're definitely not from the same batch. The weight and balance are both bang on, exact. However, with the swing weight there is a 20 point difference. The newer one is 345 and the older is 325. That's huge. So do manufacturers generally NOT take swing weight into account when creating tolerances for their factories?
(P.S. love my RD-7s and love Yonex so not hate meant by this post)