PV Audio's Playtest Thread

[mixedmedia]

Originally Posted by pvaudio

Haha ^^^ was for rdis

Yeah, I slid a comment in.

[pvaudio]

Yep, and it's good, but not for me.

[mixedmedia]

Just checking. Figured it wasn't. How long is the current setup lasting, and why does N.vy mark the balls so badly...?

[pvaudio]

No no, Nvy doesn't. Thunderblast does which is annoying. That's why I'm interested in Nvy because at first it's cool to put grid marks on the balls, it gets annoying after a few hits (as mikeler also said).

[mixedmedia]

Haha, oh, I get what you meant. I was a bit confused there since I'd never experienced that before and misinterpreted comment. N.vy should be a great substitute for ThB. I know you can find some on a deal, the Bay hound you are. (I'll let you know if I see some, since I frequent the strings section too.)

[pvaudio]

Ah man, even with dead poly, the gut mains setup is simply amazing to serve with. Just flat out stupendous. But alas, it's too expensive

[rdis10093]

do you have a red babolat string called revenge? have you ever played it? also looking for maybee weiscannon bugbite (want red string to match new racquets, should be in on thursday.)

[cluckcluck]

Originally Posted by rdis10093

do you have a red babolat string called revenge? have you ever played it? also looking for maybee weiscannon bugbite (want red string to match new racquets, should be in on thursday.)

Kirschbaum has a few red strings.

[rdis10093]

the only kirschbaum string that I like is spicky shark, pro line is decent but not that great.

[finalfantasy7]

got a question can you help PV as you've used whispetouch before.
basically i was serving by myself and broke whispertouch, i hit the ball in the iiddle of racket but it broke - 2 strings at top right?.

just want to ask ive only used the setup uf for 2.5 hrs just practising serving, the poly cross is fine, shold i just restring the main gut - or is that bad for racket?.

jus got it back from stringer, but the packet i used- ive had for 2 yrs but unopened, now i have half a set left, wanna put it back in, but should i wax the string. 1st time its happened to me.

[pvaudio]

Adam, no I don't have revenge. I do have Mosquito Bite. There are four colors: pale flesh (white), black death (black), vein blue (blue) and blood red (red). I used to have all 4, but the middle two were the most popular, so I presume I have some of the red left. I'll check this afternoon and send you a text.

[pvaudio]

Originally Posted by finalfantasy7

got a question can you help PV as you've used whispetouch before.
basically i was serving by myself and broke whispertouch, i hit the ball in the iiddle of racket but it broke - 2 strings at top right?.

just want to ask ive only used the setup uf for 2.5 hrs just practising serving, the poly cross is fine, shold i just restring the main gut - or is that bad for racket?.

jus got it back from stringer, but the packet i used- ive had for 2 yrs but unopened, now i have half a set left, wanna put it back in, but should i wax the string. 1st time its happened to me.

I am a huge proponent of never restringing either mains or crosses. It's not a practice I endorse, but I won't knock anyone who does it. As far as the string, I have no idea what happened to it, but grommet breakage isn't unusual for natural gut. It's especially not odd for 1.20mm guts, and doubly so for WT which has had issues with that in the past. Luckily, if you contact the seller, he's been pretty good about replacing people's sets. Obviously I can't guarantee that he will since I have no association with him, but if you look in the performaxx thread, many people have had success doing that. Although I haven't tried to contact him myself lately (moved away from gut as much as I could), I've heard he's been intermittent lately.

[finalfantasy7]

ok, yeh ive used his gut 3 times, this is the 1st time its happened

[UCSF2012]

Originally Posted by finalfantasy7

got a question can you help PV as you've used whispetouch before.
basically i was serving by myself and broke whispertouch, i hit the ball in the iiddle of racket but it broke - 2 strings at top right?.

just want to ask ive only used the setup uf for 2.5 hrs just practising serving, the poly cross is fine, shold i just restring the main gut - or is that bad for racket?.

jus got it back from stringer, but the packet i used- ive had for 2 yrs but unopened, now i have half a set left, wanna put it back in, but should i wax the string. 1st time its happened to me.

This is the reason why I put power pads on the bottom AND top of the strings. Shanks break natural gut. You did not hit the ball at the center of the stringbed. You hit it at the very top, near the frame.

And in this particular case, you CAN'T restring just the mains. When you cut off the mains, the crosses come off with it.

[rdis10093]

actualy I found a set of lux rough in my bag, so if you have a red multi or syn that would be perfect. And if not well I guess I could do poly hybrid for what that is worth. I want red in the string bed though.

[finalfantasy7]

Originally Posted by UCSF2012

This is the reason why I put power pads on the bottom AND top of the strings. Shanks break natural gut. You did not hit the ball at the center of the stringbed. You hit it at the very top, near the frame.

And in this particular case, you CAN'T restring just the mains. When you cut off the mains, the crosses come off with it.

thing is that when it broke i didnt shank, it was hit at centre, but i speak to my stringer 2mrow as he didnt string it this time - was his kid, but anyway dont want to derail this thread, thanks again for replies

[JT_2eighty]

you can't restring only mains. That only works on crosses, as the tie-offs for the cross strings are On the main strings. It's also impossible due to the way racquets are clamped down, it's to combat the initial stress of tensioning main strings, which always have to be strung first.

Long story short, if you break the mains, it is impossible to replace them, while the crosses is possible, but only advised to those who string their own who are careful enough to not damage their frame (clamp racquet before cutting, cut from throat to head, etc). Mains are always strung first, then crosses; so working backwards, only crosses can be replaced if mains are intact.

Also as far as the breakage location, it could have been the result of an earlier shank at any point in time in the string job. Gut can weaken but not break outright. This is why some people have gut to snap in the bag a day or two after hitting with budget gut. Shanks and kinks don't necessarily break immediately, but then out of nowhere, even on a clean shot or while you are sleeping, break somewhere else in the frame.

[pvaudio]

I would be careful in saying that it's impossible. It certainly is possible and I've seen it done before. You simply need to tie the crosses off on cross strings only (as Federer has his sticks done).

[finalfantasy7]

^dont worry, im gonna talk to stringer, this is 1st time its happened since ive been using him and it was strung by his son him himself, just the breakpoint is very weird, i will replace cross, just wanted to know about if it was considered good just replacing mains - NO is the answer,

thanks for info appreciated, no point talking about it anymore, carry on with this thread

[pvaudio]

Been getting a lot of the Biomimetic strings lately. To save money, I think I'm going to go Scorpion mains and S-Gut crosses. Also have Black Widow, Silk, Hexy Fiber and Juice. All are actually great strings aside from Silk which is flat out boring.