Ok, that's interesting. I have 3 PFs, all grey. My Pro is black, though.
Softest prince 90 made ?
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Grafil Injection
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Might be dark grey actually, given the cover is grey. Are yours labeled 1986?
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NewcomerfromBalkan
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I found Prince Vortex Sb Mp,very cheap(around 15 bucks) and bought it for my friend.He is begginner,playing for 2 years not too often,and i hope that will suit him.
I am surprised about condition.It is almost new,such a old model with HH Balance.I put replacement+2OG's and some electrical tape under grip.Balance is reasonable 33.5cm.Can someone share other specs or playing charateristics?sorry about mess around little kid throw everything
I am surprised about condition.It is almost new,such a old model with HH Balance.I put replacement+2OG's and some electrical tape under grip.Balance is reasonable 33.5cm.Can someone share other specs or playing charateristics?sorry about mess around little kid throw everything
WYK
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Im a big fan od the standard aluminum pro 90. Hard to find one in good ocndition nowadays though.
It's the racquet that helped me switch to the graphite 90 back in the early 90's.
After hearing that the QC on the woodies were all over the place, I put another one in my cart on the bay and forgot about it. Last week, I bought a couple camera bodies and lens and didn't realize that the $29 woodie was in there when I checked out.
Got it today, and it's more headlight than my other one, which I'm happy about. It's strung w a full bed of nat gut, so I'm going to have hit w it this weekend. Shadow swinging it, it feels similar to my 97ps. But then I weighed it, and it was 376 g! I added an over grip to cover the old leather, so probably north of 380 g now. I weighed my previous one, and it was 381 g w/o an overgrip.
Got it today, and it's more headlight than my other one, which I'm happy about. It's strung w a full bed of nat gut, so I'm going to have hit w it this weekend. Shadow swinging it, it feels similar to my 97ps. But then I weighed it, and it was 376 g! I added an over grip to cover the old leather, so probably north of 380 g now. I weighed my previous one, and it was 381 g w/o an overgrip.
Hit w my "new" woodie today. It felt great; didn't feel like it was heavy, even though it's about 30 g over my normal static weight. It lasted about 15-20 min before I snapped a cross string, even though I loaded up a diamond pattern of elastocrosses in the mid section.
After I broke the strings, I switched to the evenly balanced woodie, and it felt a bit more sluggish.
I'm going to string the head light one up again and give it another go. Going to string it up w nat gut mains and monogut ZX crosses to tame the power a bit. Volleys were sublime, landing just inside the baseline. The flex is addicting and my elbow loves it.
After I broke the strings, I switched to the evenly balanced woodie, and it felt a bit more sluggish.
I'm going to string the head light one up again and give it another go. Going to string it up w nat gut mains and monogut ZX crosses to tame the power a bit. Volleys were sublime, landing just inside the baseline. The flex is addicting and my elbow loves it.
thenewbig3
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My 3 woodies are like this specwise (below) with OG. All 3 pretty HL but a good spread. The 385g unit is a Bear. Most older wooden rackets I have are closer to the Heavy Woodie specwise BUT being smaller headed and probably lower twistweight easier to swing around.
#1 375g 317mm 326SW
#2 364g 318mm 316SW
#3 385g 320mm 348SW
Wow, your #2 sounds awesome. I returned serve at my son's lesson today, and it was amazing how stable it felt (he hits a pretty big serve) w/ all the mass behind it. I might have to start looking for more HL examples of it to use regularly. I imagine the wood makes the specs all over the place.
thenewbig3
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Damn you have been so unlucky. Hopefully you aren't paying too much for these. I was initially irritated that I had ONE unit of 5 come at almost 350SW and every other was was sub 330 with 1.30 synthetic gut and all were 5-7 HL before OG too...
My last woodie came today. Luckily, it was only 267 g w old nylon strings, but it was still evenly balanced. I added 6 g of tungsten tape (all I had left), and overgrip and strung it w Axon multi in the mains x ZX crosses (@teachingprotx my last set of Axon). When I was putting the racquet in the stringing machine, I noticed that one of the top holes is cracked half way through from the inside. I don't think the seller would've seen it w the old string in it. Glad I've only been paying $20 (+ shipping) for these. Total weight is 392 g and balance is 315 mm.
Ideally, I'd like to shave off about 40 g and take the balance down to 310 mm or so.
If I have time, I might look into making some modern wooden frames for myself, using some maple wood veneer that I have and vacuum bag the layers together w epoxy. I'll finish it w a graphite layer, copying hybrids from this era. Probably going to copy the 97p frame outline.
Ideally, I'd like to shave off about 40 g and take the balance down to 310 mm or so.
If I have time, I might look into making some modern wooden frames for myself, using some maple wood veneer that I have and vacuum bag the layers together w epoxy. I'll finish it w a graphite layer, copying hybrids from this era. Probably going to copy the 97p frame outline.
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teachingprotx
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Dude . Do it man !!! Do it !!!!
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