themitchmann
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Anyone run into this issue with Pacific Classic Gut? I started stringing with it when Babolat Tonic went up in price and have had multiple issues from shearing.
Anyone run into this issue with Pacific Classic Gut? I started stringing with it when Babolat Tonic went up in price and have had multiple issues from shearing.
Anyone run into this issue with Pacific Classic Gut? I started stringing with it when Babolat Tonic went up in price and have had multiple issues from shearing.
I did buy from TW, but as I said earlier, it was a while ago.
I'm surprised I'm the only one to encounter this problem. Maybe I just got unlucky. I've got a set of Prince Gut on order. If it happens again, maybe I've got an issue with one of my clamps.
Just about any string can shear from a mishit near the frame. An older, dried out batch of gut would certainly be more likely to do this.
The concern is that I've strung a number of racquets for both clients without any issues aside from racquets strung with Pacific Classic Gut. They have sheared any string (other than an occassional poly).
I understand what you are saying, but I string with VS touch 16g. not only for myself and family but for clients as well, and I have strung a decent amount of nat. gut and with the VS there always is the issue of mis hits causing shearing and snapping. Sometimes it is not even that evident, as a player can have a mis hit nothing happens and later in the bag the string snaps due to the earlier mis hit. You can have a real hard mis hit and nothing happens, later have a light mis hit and the string snaps at the mis hit or sometimes later in the bag because of the shearing of the mis hit. Gut is sensitive to this.
In other words , you can have an all gut set up last for a long long time mis hits and all, and the string finally wears out and breaks normally after a good long while, then restring, have one decent mis hit and the string snaps early either at that mis hit or next time when you use it, or in the bag, all from that mis hit. Its the nature of the beast.Thats the thing about nat. gut, and I tell clients this before I string a nat. gut job so they do not come back to me with this issue.Anyone that strings a good amount of gut should inform the customers of this when they ask for nat. gut as after a while it would come back to you as they would have no idea.
The NatGut shearing disclaimer is a good idea.
As is the 'dead within 10 hrs' warning for Poly.
The NatGut shearing disclaimer is a good idea.
As is the 'dead within 10 hrs' warning for Poly.
I've never had any issue like that. The only problem I've ever had was the gauge thickness. At the ends it ends up way too think, almost to the point of not being able to get it through the grommet holes on occasion.