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Legend
I was on yet another hunt for wooden frames and went in looking for the assorted sporting goods. I found tucked away in the corner of the store a bunch of golf clubs.
Underneath the golf clubs were the tennis rackets they had. An old metal junior frame...a beat up Pro Kennex wooden racket...a wooden junior racket (my two year-old daughter said, "That racket is for kids.). Then at the bottom of the pile I saw a leather gripped handle with the old Dunlop logo script.
I fished out the frame and it was a Dunlop Maxply Fort without strings. It was a bit banged up, but there was no real court rash. Any damage was strictly from being handled carelessly and thrown in a corner with a few rackets and an assortment of golf clubs piled on top.
I looked closer and realize that the frame had never been strung (no indentations in the wood characteristic of the past presence of tensioned strings). It is a "heavy" frame with a 4 5/8 grip size.
I don't intend to string it up. Strictly for a personal collectible. When I went to ring it up, the young woman at the register asked why I wanted one without strings. "There are ones in the back with strings," she said. My wife explained to her that I like to collect rackets.
I was pleasantly excited and I decided to check out another store.
There I found a beat up Slazenger Challenge No. 1, "light" with a 4 1/2 grip size with old dead natural gut strings for $0.99.
Thought I'd share with other racket geeks.
Underneath the golf clubs were the tennis rackets they had. An old metal junior frame...a beat up Pro Kennex wooden racket...a wooden junior racket (my two year-old daughter said, "That racket is for kids.). Then at the bottom of the pile I saw a leather gripped handle with the old Dunlop logo script.
I fished out the frame and it was a Dunlop Maxply Fort without strings. It was a bit banged up, but there was no real court rash. Any damage was strictly from being handled carelessly and thrown in a corner with a few rackets and an assortment of golf clubs piled on top.
I looked closer and realize that the frame had never been strung (no indentations in the wood characteristic of the past presence of tensioned strings). It is a "heavy" frame with a 4 5/8 grip size.
I don't intend to string it up. Strictly for a personal collectible. When I went to ring it up, the young woman at the register asked why I wanted one without strings. "There are ones in the back with strings," she said. My wife explained to her that I like to collect rackets.
I was pleasantly excited and I decided to check out another store.
There I found a beat up Slazenger Challenge No. 1, "light" with a 4 1/2 grip size with old dead natural gut strings for $0.99.
Thought I'd share with other racket geeks.