syngut crosses to poly mains

[fgs]

my last two attempts in the realm of syngut crosses to poly mains have basically confirmed the experience of hitting through twentysomething others - definitely not my line of business.

prince lightnig xx 1,25 - a slightly stiffer version of the original syngut in my opinion with poor tension maintenance and really bagging out after about one hour of hitting.

tecnifibre s-gut 1,25 - reasonable performance for about one hour of hitting, then it starts spraying quite a lot. both half sets only lasted for slightly less than one session being rather "unplayable" at the end. this one also seems to be notching the mains quite a lot more which explains the rather good spin it provides, as the mains have been on the verge of breaking too, while the mains played with my "reference" multi lasted almost 5hrs!

if something ultra-mega-high-tech will come up in the syngut-territory i might eventually give it another try, but for now this chapter is closed and i will move over to testing multis and monogut zx pro as crosses for the next months/years.

 

[beepee1972]

You could have tried (or still can try) the standard Babolat Synthetic Gut as well. Very affordable and available in 1.25 and 1.30. Very slick surface, when new.

 

[fgs]

i played it a long time ago (must be some 4-5 years as it was in my nblades at that time) and in spite of the denser stringbed it displayed the same characteristics that i dislike - starts out pretty good and then bags out. there are only very few of the (recently) tested ones that kept going for almost their entire lifetime, but still there is too big of a difference in touch and control compared to the multis of my choice, and the ones i'm talking about come in pretty pricey in europe. it ends basically all up at price in the sense that i can get two decent hours of practice with a €30/reel syngut and then basically have to cut it out, or i can get the same two hours at a higher playing level with a multi that costs €36/reel and then have to restring as it is broken. i usually use up some 5 reels of multis per year, so economically speaking we are looking at some €30 altogether per annum and it doesn't save me the stringing after each playing session.
and that calculation is not completely correct simply because the mains have a shorter duration with any of the synguts tested, while with multis my favourite mains do last for more or less two sessions. the €30 the synguts would have been cheaper are more than compensated by the additional lifetime i get out of the mains with multis, as it has been quite regular that the mains broke in the midst of the second session, giving thus some 3hrs lifetime. that would add up to 25% more mains consumption, which is definitely well above the €30 the synguts would be cheaper.

 

[The Big Kahuna]

Best I have found so far is the L-Tec FLEX syngut for hybrids with poly. It is formulated expressly to be a cross string and plays very close to natural gut.


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