Bad string job, less durability?

[sixone90]

I normally string my KBlade Tour with Tecnifibre X-One Biphase 16 in the mains and Luxilon ALU Power in the crosses @ 54/52. On average I play once a week and this string set up lasts me about 6 months.

I normally get my racquet at strung my local tennis shop but they have since jacked up the price for restringing so I went to another place.

At the new place, I got my new BLX Six One Tour strung at the same tension and same string set up and it has lasted me 2 months before breaking. I almost always hit the sweetspot. Is this a result of a bad string job? Or is it just me?

 

[mrtrinh]

Probably due to the string pattern. The kblade tour is a dense string pattern and the blx tour is an open string pattern which is more prone to breaking strings more often

 

[pvaudio]

I honestly couldn't tell you. I cannot even imagine keeping ALU in my racquet for two months, let alone half of a year. It goes dead so quickly. But simply from a factual standpoint, it's more surprising that you'd get 6 months out of it in the first place, and now that you're getting 1/3 of the durability probably means nothing.

 

[Donny0627]

As others have said the string pattern definately was part of it....

Did the string break in the middle of the string bed?



BTW, "congrats" on getting that long out of a stringjob, Oh the good ol' days...

 

[sixone90]

Broke in the mains. Then I cut the crosses.

 

[jmverdugo]

So X-One doesn't fray? cool. I do not think it broke due a bad stringing job.

 

[Donny0627]

The only thing I would say is if you have this person string your racket again, when you get it back, pull on the cross strings slightly(up and down) and see if there are already notches in the mains. If so, then the stringer made an error(probably out of laziness) and didn't pull the cross strings through correctly, causing friction burn.

 

[jmverdugo]

Actually he could still check that ^^ on the outter mains or at the bottom part of the mains.

 

[stringwalla]

Looks like some decent knotching there. Normal breakage as far as I can see.

Unless the tension was low to allow for more sliding and cutting, I don't see a bad string job at fault.

As stated above, lux/t-fibre after 6 months would be a "mush-mat"

 

[sixone90]

OK, good to know it wasn't a bad string job. I know the strings don't play so well after 6 months. Heck, even after 1 month they feel bad but I just have to adjust to it.

I'm from Australia and stringing and strings aren't cheap, I just can't bare to cut strings out when they go dead and being a uni student doesn't help either.

 

[Lara Richards]

Probably due to the string pattern. The kblade tour is a dense string pattern and the blx tour is an open string pattern which is more prone to breaking strings more often

I agree with you. Blx tour is an open string pattern that's why it easily breaks.

 

[dave t]

x one most definitely frays. My last full x1 job was shredded up and looked like I was hitting cotton-coated balls right before it broke.

 

[mhj202]

The only thing I would say is if you have this person string your racket again, when you get it back, pull on the cross strings slightly(up and down) and see if there are already notches in the mains. If so, then the stringer made an error(probably out of laziness) and didn't pull the cross strings through correctly, causing friction burn.

Agreed- I hate seeing new string jobs with significant notching from friction burn. It was something I was very conscious of back a long time ago when I strung rackets but I feel like I see a lot of lazy string jobs lately.

 

[Donny0627]

Agreed- I hate seeing new string jobs with significant notching from friction burn. It was something I was very conscious of back a long time ago when I strung rackets but I feel like I see a lot of lazy string jobs lately.

I think it mostly occurs at big box stores...