Not the best pic, but it's the only one I have handy. The maroon and navy were the colors for the university I played for. Nothing super flashy, but I love it, and the glossy paint really does make it stand out.
I would love to see a picture or walkthrough.Even the 2 grommets side by side would help.
Oh i agree with you but the feel on the it is not a blade but its the closest I've come to it.
Both the CV and the 2015 blades have parallel drilling so the grommets should fit.
I have. The only thing you need to use is the green top insert from the 2015. Everything else fits. The bottom bridge grommets are a little snug, but go in fine with a tap from a rubber mallet or just press them in and the string tension will snug them up.
If you have a 2015 Blade 16x19 (with the green grommets/ headguard), the top 8 main string holes of the grommet are an insert that fits into the headguard grommet. So if you pulled the grommets off, the headguard would have a space in the top that the insert for the 8 mains would fit in (that's the best way I can describe it). If you purchase the CV grommets, the insert is black and the string spacing is only slightly different. You can probably get it to work on the 2015 with a hairdryer/ heat gun, or you could use a Dremel tool to widen the holes. I opted for the Dremel tool.
Thank you very much ! This is very clear now !
If you plan to use the green insert, you won't necessarily have to buy new green grommets, you could just used the existing insert (since the holes don't get widened/ flared from use or stringing) and only get the CV 16x19 grommets.Thank you very much ! This is very clear now !
I wonder what Mackie MacDonald did when he used his '15 Blade 16x19 when he played at UCLA, since he had black grommets?. He then used a CV pj in the pros.
I guess you talking about leaving off the 2 outside mains and a top or bottom on the cross? You could certainly try it. Maybe guess is that it won’t play much differently. The string pattern is pretty uniform on these, so I can’t think of another way to string it, where you wouldn’t have large gaps.
Yep, I like this one (BLX black and silver) the best. I wasn’t impressed with the Clash technology. Grommets are getting a little hard to find though.
Does the 2015 fit the 2013 ? Maybe it would be easier to find.
No. The 2015+ Blades switched to parallel drilling so these grommets won’t fit the older versions.
It’s just the middle main strings that are a little off. I’m not sure if the parallel drilling affects it. Either, the 2015 is pretty similar to the ‘13, so you could just find these racquets. Here’s the part number for ‘13 grommets WRT71620U.
The parallel drilling does affect it. A customer gave me six.one 95 16/18 grommets for the parallel drilled version to install in the six.one blx 95 16/18 non-parallel drilled version and they definitely did not fit. I tried.
Okay I guess it does. I have green grommets on my 2013 right now (the guy sent me the wrong ones) and the only holes I had troubles with were the mains in the throat (8 I think).
I took out the throat grommet piece of a 2013 and compared it to an 2015 piece. The 2015 grommets appear to be thicker.
Yeah. It was the center holes that would not fit. I’m sure if I cut the individual grommets off of the strip, they would fit.
I took your advice and played the 2015 without my dampener and the vibrations were minimal, I continued playing without one.
depends...which version did you get [emoji14]
