Racquet Stringing [Stringing With Natural Gut - 5 Tips]

Are you one of those stringers who got into stringing to save money by restringing your racquets? And now that you're into it, you want to try natural gut strings but are intimidated by the price or fear of messing up?
Since natural gut strings require special care compared to synthetic or polyester strings, I'll demonstrate five special things when working with these special strings.
STRINGING WITH NATURAL GUT - 5 TIPS
0:22 - #1 Clean & Adjust String Clamps
2:02 - #2 Pre-Stretch - Manual & Electronic
3:23 - #3 Uncoiling & Inspecting
5:17 - #4 Taming the Strings
6:54 - #5 String Integrity
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[@Javi_C]

Great tips, thanks Albert! Merry Christmas! 🎄

[@AMstringing]

Mele Kalikimaka and Hau'oli Makahiki Hou!

[@dannylefevre1016]

Hi again, a good way to judge the clamp adaption to another tstring then the one you did priorly is to clamp the ends of the string in order to check the impact before you get started. The ends wil not come out in the stringbed anyway.

[@AMstringing]

Aloha Danny, That's a good tip for checking the string clamp pressure. The goal is to avoid ghosting or teeth indentation marks in the string. However, sometimes it might be necessary to tighten the string clamps if they are slipping. And unfortunately, this can cause ghosting or teeth marks. The main priority is that the string clamps are holding the tension. If the string clamp slips, it can fray the strings, which in my opinion, is far worse than ghosting or teeth marks. When I made the comment, "you have to know your clamps," I was referring to the stringer's experience working with other strings (mainly multifilament strings), therefore "knowing" the amount of clamp pressure needed to hold the string and avoid slippage. 🤙

[@dannylefevre1016]

@@AMstringing yes indeed, slipping is what you certainly want to avoid! Knowing your clamps is key. When clamping down the first an experienced stringer will know right away if it is good basée on

[@dannylefevre1016]

based on the bite of the clamp on the string

[@dbk7238]

hi albert. i havent strung natural gut in years, in fact due to rising costs, the improvement of multifilaments and introduction of poly, co-poly strings, gut has lost much of the market. i do remember how gut tends to kink just outside the grommet, so i would stabilize the u-bend with a wood dowel about the size of my finger and pull snug by hand to shape and relax the bend, then removing the dowel and tension as normal...

[@AMstringing]

Aloha DB, Yes, I rarely get to string a full bed of natural gut these days, so I was happy when my client dropped off his two racquets that I could use for this video. Just curious, when you mention the "u-bend," and the wood dowel, did you have to use it for every cross-string hole, or just the blocked holes?

[@dbk7238]

@@AMstringing hi albert, i used a dowel or even a pen or pencil for just about every u-turn for mains and crosses. the areas i dont use this method is on tieoff's because these usually skip a few grommet holes. doing this has kept me from kinking gut strings just outside the frame...

[@MiS-jy4gm]

Instead of "Crazy glue: I use nail polish (no colored but just clear), put on the bottom of the knot (to "seal" the tie of the string to the anchor string)

[@AMstringing]

Aloha Mi, Yes, I've heard of stringers that use nail polish too! And I'm glad you clarified "clear" and not "colored." 🤣

[@alwayscausingaracquet]

I noticed that the second to last cross wasn't tensioned. Would you normally tension that one, then do your hard weave so avoid the string twisting? Thanks!

[@AMstringing]

Aloha Tony, I'm assuming you're referring to the "String Integrity" portion of the video where I'm installing the last cross string. If this is the case, look again at the second to last cross, and you'll notice that is is tensioned. The reason why you don't see a string clamp holding that string is because I'm using my "Around the World with a Twist" pattern. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoimhZlpf7SdqtE However, if I was stringing the racquet 2-piece, and had enough string length to leave the second to last cross string un-tensioned, I would do so. In other words, I would be stringing one-ahead, like the rest of the crosses. The exception would be when there is a blocked hole, like the one on this racquet. Then I would tension it like you mentioned, then do a hard weave, to eliminate having the string loop twist on the outside of the frame. I hope this makes sense. 🤙

[@alwayscausingaracquet]

@@AMstringing Absolutely makes sense! Thanks a bunch, I'm practicing trying to weave crosses like you, happy holidays!

[@AMstringing]

@@alwayscausingaracquet Mele Kalikimaka & Hau'oli Makahiki Hou!