Does Natural Gut compensate for dead poly?

[Lawn Tennis]

When Poly dies (about 2 weeks), would natural gut be able to save the day in hybrid form? In other words, as long as the natural gut strings are still intact, will the stringbed feel alive enough to use? Also does anyone know how long Prince's synthetic gut original, performance life lasts? Not how long until it breaks, but how long until it feels dead.

 

[scotus]

I used to play with PSG a long time ago. It is not really a string known for durability.

Anyone 3.0 or above should be able to break the string before it feels dead.

 

[scotus]

Regarding your question about natural gut hybrid, yes, natural gut's liveliness will compensate but it all depends on how sensitive you are to the feel.

I used to cut out the gut-poly hybrid after 2 hitting sessions because of the drop in playability.

 

[Mig1NC]

Are you talking gut mains or gut crosses?

 

[Lawn Tennis]

Are you talking gut mains or gut crosses?

Both ways.. which ever way would work. I'd be willing to try 15 gauge poly and gut for a longer life if this helped.

 

[2Hare]

As long as you keep the strings lubricated, the stringbed should be lively enough to play with gut in the main. As main get stretched the most and provides most of the spin for the shots. so you want the best tension maintaining string there. But yea gut does tend to break before the stringbed feel dead. make sure you don't string this setup too high.

 

[Keifers]

When Poly dies (about 2 weeks), would natural gut be able to save the day in hybrid form? In other words, as long as the natural gut strings are still intact, will the stringbed feel alive enough to use? Also does anyone know how long Prince's synthetic gut original, performance life lasts? Not how long until it breaks, but how long until it feels dead.

I'm not a string breaker. I've found the playability of POSG lasts a long time. I've bought old racquets strung with it and the strings have still played well after many, many years.

 

[jk175d]

When Poly dies (about 2 weeks), would natural gut be able to save the day in hybrid form? In other words, as long as the natural gut strings are still intact, will the stringbed feel alive enough to use? Also does anyone know how long Prince's synthetic gut original, performance life lasts? Not how long until it breaks, but how long until it feels dead.

imo, yes. But the key is to have 5-7 lbs difference between the gut mains and poly crosses. AND don't have the poly over 50lbs. I do 55/48 or as low as 53/46

I have changed out the poly crosses sometimes when experimenting with different polys but now that I've settled into MSC-co-focus I just play until it cuts through the mains.

 

[parasailing]

Interesting suggestion so far. I string my VS mains at 58lbs and copoly at 53lbs. I find that SPPP lasts about 8 hours before I cut them out and put a new set in there. I have about 20 plus hours on this type of setup by cutting out the copoly every 8 hours. I will be on my third set of copoly when the gut will break.

This has made it economically to use gut and you get all the benefits of having both in a racquet.

 

[The Big Kahuna]

imo, yes. But the key is to have 5-7 lbs difference between the gut mains and poly crosses. AND don't have the poly over 50lbs. I do 55/48 or as low as 53/46

I have changed out the poly crosses sometimes when experimenting with different polys but now that I've settled into MSC-co-focus I just play until it cuts through the mains.

Agreed.

Always put the GUT in the MAINS, however - you are wasting the gut if you reverse it (you might as well have any good multi in there in the crosses as opposed to gut). Gut mains and Poly Crosses is the benchmark with reagrd to hybrids.

 

[The Big Kahuna]

Interesting suggestion so far. I string my VS mains at 58lbs and copoly at 53lbs. I find that SPPP lasts about 8 hours before I cut them out and put a new set in there. I have about 20 plus hours on this type of setup by cutting out the copoly every 8 hours. I will be on my third set of copoly when the gut will break.

This has made it economically to use gut and you get all the benefits of having both in a racquet.

Even cheaper if you go to a KLIP or Pacific string ($25.) in the mains with an MSV C0-Focus or Kirshbaum Pro Line II cross (which is on special right now at TW.com) at about $7. a set.

Two racquets with gut mains for $32. - $16. per set! Plays great!

 

[jk175d]

Even cheaper if you go to a KLIP or Pacific string ($25.) in the mains with an MSV C0-Focus or Kirshbaum Pro Line II cross (which is on special right now at TW.com) at about $7. a set.

Two racquets with gut mains for $32. - $16. per set! Plays great!

I think my plan now is to keep one frame with Klip and one with VS. I like VS a lot more but the Klip still plays great. the Co-focus 1.18 cut through the VS in a week, but after a 10 days with Klip in the mains, the Klip was barely notched at all. So with Klip I can get at least 2, and we'll see, maybe 3 crosses.

I'm trying out some string savers on a fresh stringing of VS/Co-focus to see if that makes a difference in VS durability. Never used stringsavers before.

 

[dozu]

When Poly dies (about 2 weeks), would natural gut be able to save the day in hybrid form? In other words, as long as the natural gut strings are still intact, will the stringbed feel alive enough to use? Also does anyone know how long Prince's synthetic gut original, performance life lasts? Not how long until it breaks, but how long until it feels dead.

compensation only to a certain degree... the overall feel is still pretty bad.

never used PSG original... PSGD is an EXCELLENT cross for gut, as it's low powered, soft, and holds tension very well.

 

[Lawn Tennis]

thanks for all the replies everyone

 

[parasailing]

Even cheaper if you go to a KLIP or Pacific string ($25.) in the mains with an MSV C0-Focus or Kirshbaum Pro Line II cross (which is on special right now at TW.com) at about $7. a set.

Two racquets with gut mains for $32. - $16. per set! Plays great!

I tried Pacific Tough Gut and not a big fan of it. Which one of the KLIP or Pacific one closest resembles VS Team? I don't break strings that often anymore with the hybrid setup so going with VS Team doesn't hit the wallet as much.

I hope to give PL2 a shot as I do not really like Co-focus as you might as read in my other postings.

My favorite setup is still VS Team with SPPP crosses.