All Natural Gut vs Natural Gut / Synthetic Gut hybrid?

[TripleB]

For those of you who have tried an all natural gut stringing versus a natural gut/synthetic gut hybrid, can you tell a huge difference in the playability of the two?

If I'm using all natural gut then that's a $22.99 (BB Champ 15L) stringing.

If I'm using a natural gut main and then a Prince or Gosen cross then that's only $13.50.

Just wondering if there is $9.49 difference in playability, feel, and durability between the two?

Thanks for any input.

TripleB

 

[Richie Rich]

BBB,

I liked the hybrid. same playability and less cost. same durability too. maybe string the crosses a little tighter since gut won't lose tension as much.

BTW, how do you like the 500MP? I'm tempted to try it but I'm afraid I'll go through the strings too fast b/c of the open string pattern.

 

[TripleB]

Although I've only had it out once I absolutely love it. I wasn't getting the balls as deep as I'm used to during my first set with it but during the second and third set I was really hitting the ball clean and getting great depth. I think I started out with my main strings (Touch Turbo 16g) a little too tight which caused me to lose some power. After demoing the racquet I knew that my sharp angle crosscourt forehand and backhand were going to be a new weapon in my arsenal but I was really surprised by my slice backhand--I thought it stayed low with my POG mid but with the RDX-500 Midplus it's a step and a half above the POG mid in that department. I haven't got my serve dialed in like I had with the demo but I think that will come soon. I've got 16g mains and 15L crosses and the gap between the strings doesn't look that big. However I'll know more about the durability after several matches under my belt. If the poly/gut holds up well I think I'll be trying a gut/synthetic stringing. At least to compare it to the poly/gut.

TripleB

 

[TopSpinner]

TripleB,
I've used Luxilon BB Original (mains) & Babolat Gut (crosses) hybrid and it has worked greated but have not tried gut hybrid with syntetic. Concern I have with doing that would be durability of the syntetic. If it's not durable then you are wasting your expensive gut string. Also yonex frames are pretty sensitive to tension so same string at different tension could feel very different.