How about Klip Legend from TW at $25.95 a set? My favorite...
That looks like it might be my next stop. I've never played with Klip and have read mixed reviews but eventually I'll give it a shot.
I'm using the "naturalgutwholesale" stuff from the bay, but I buy it direct from the supplier. No bidding.
What's the price per set and do they give discounts for bulk buys? I'll def look into it. Can you compare it to Gaucho, Mamba, or Tonic?
I just broke my last Pacific Tough gut this afternoon and I will be trying out a new low cost gut that I got from Natural Gut Wholesale (Google it). Price is low and service was fast but I can't comment yet on the playability or longevity.
So far Tough Gut has outperformed Babolat by a wide margin for me in longevity but I've played before with Global gut and it was OK (55 lbs or less).
I have one stick strung with Pacific from a friend and it was a nice play. I'm not too sure where longevity will lie with these new Pure Drives but I'm working on it. Come August I will be on the court waaay more (studying to take the bar on the 28th). A full bed of Poly lasts me 2-4 hours of good hitting but costs me 7.00 a set. Playing with gut mains, I'm getting more out of it. We'll see.
I've been playing poly or poly/multi but have a few frames strung with gut for hitting with the kids/wife or those days I don't feel like working hard.
I've been getting 3 sets of mains out of a set just stringing the center 12 mains with gut on my 16x19 frames. The outside mains and crosses I string with a soft co-poly... As good as full gut on all the mains IMO.
HAHA! I've done this when I was short on string and didn't want to toss the extra. If I can't find anything to my liking and decide to stick with this gut/poly combo, I might just do that. Great post.
Pulled from natural gut wholesale's site:
- High Tech Manufacturing Process
- Costs Less than BABOLAT® & KLIP® Brand
- Max Adjusted Tension 16 GAUGE: 54-55lbs
- Max Adjusted Tension 17 GAUGE: 53-54lbs
You know the gut is crap when the maximum tension is 55 and below.
I mean, it's econo-gut for a reason. VS is fantastic but 1, out of my price range (for now). I also string low tension, so it's not much of a problem for me. 54/54 with the gut/poly combo. Currently 52lbs for straight poly.
Ditto this statement. I've tried all the cheap gut. They all are "junk", period. If you've had good luck with them, good for you. For me cheap gut is probably the most expensive string out there . It either breaks while you string it, breaks while you store it in your racquet bag, or breaks as you are warming up to play.
To the OP here, if you have some Mamba gut that is probably the best cheaper gut out there. I could actually get some half sets to stay in longer and it played really well for me. Too bad Mamba stopped selling gut strings. They stated they could not get a decent consistent string from their supplier.
Klip gut does not play or feel very good to me. Sort of a non-feeling gut not great control either. It is okay if you want to hit around with someone and not play in a true match.
I use to use Pacific Tough Gut until I happened to try the Pacific Prime Gut. More expensive, yes, BUT it plays like a dream. I am not a string breaker so it lasts me a long, long time AND plays great the whole time.
Yeah, I had a couple issues with Gaucho and some other brands early on but I was stringing in a Prestige Mid. Those stupid grommets alone murder the econo-gut, forget about weaving 20 crosses in tight pattern at 58lbs. Mamba definitely was the best of the lot and I was more than happy playing with it for the price. I'm going to see how long this stick lasts me since the mains are a little less than half-way notched and I have about 3ish hours of hitting then maybe try something new. For now, it's been great but I'm just getting back into the swing of things. We'll see
Thanks for all the great responses!