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my stringing business has been growing and I’m stringing more and different racquets every week.
I’ve strung 100 racquets all two piece and never ran into a problem. Until yesterdays 15 year old Prince.
I’m on the last cross and about to tie off and I just can’t. The grommets are all tiny and not a chance I slide another string in. (Other than where the mains were already tied off at)
F it, I’ll cut them out and do a one piece. But then I realized the last cross will end on the same side as the tied off main, I won’t be able to tie that off either!!! There’s only one suitable tieoff grommet on each side of the throat end of the racquet.
After way too much deliberation, I decide I can either string my crosses from bottom up or try to do some sort of ATW action. I’ve never done ATW before. but I engineered a decent plan in my head for what would make sense.
I pulled off a pretty good ATW, if I may say so myself, and voila! The two knots are on opposite sides of the racquet and zero problem. 90 minutes and two packs of strings later I’m done.
Never again….
Until my very next customer’s racquet. This is a typical $75 general sports store type racquet.
I noticed that the original string job only had two knots and once again, no grommets looked suitable for getting another tie off done after the main! So I do the same exact pattern again. Easy this time.
My question: am I going to have to check every time that the grommets can accommodate two piece stringing from now on? After 100+ other racquets this never came up and now it’s twice in a row.
Am I stupid and just missing something?
I’ve strung 100 racquets all two piece and never ran into a problem. Until yesterdays 15 year old Prince.
I’m on the last cross and about to tie off and I just can’t. The grommets are all tiny and not a chance I slide another string in. (Other than where the mains were already tied off at)
F it, I’ll cut them out and do a one piece. But then I realized the last cross will end on the same side as the tied off main, I won’t be able to tie that off either!!! There’s only one suitable tieoff grommet on each side of the throat end of the racquet.
After way too much deliberation, I decide I can either string my crosses from bottom up or try to do some sort of ATW action. I’ve never done ATW before. but I engineered a decent plan in my head for what would make sense.
I pulled off a pretty good ATW, if I may say so myself, and voila! The two knots are on opposite sides of the racquet and zero problem. 90 minutes and two packs of strings later I’m done.
Never again….
Until my very next customer’s racquet. This is a typical $75 general sports store type racquet.
I noticed that the original string job only had two knots and once again, no grommets looked suitable for getting another tie off done after the main! So I do the same exact pattern again. Easy this time.
My question: am I going to have to check every time that the grommets can accommodate two piece stringing from now on? After 100+ other racquets this never came up and now it’s twice in a row.
Am I stupid and just missing something?