Those must have been a musician's nimble fingers to tie a knot with that! Otherwise you would have had to play with a starting clamp attached.
Lol nice job. But is the tension on the string only hand pulled tension? Would you ever try to extend a string by tying it to another and then pulling with machine as per usual?
[MENTION=1]kwun[/MENTION] How come that you measured the cross segment too short? Was it the last one of the reel or did you cut it too short?
It happens occasionally. I keep a spreadsheet of how much string I use for a particular racket and string tension, and once in a blue moon, a new racquet comes in that is slightly larger and I end up trying to tie the cross with a slightly too short end. Or one that requires an extra cross at the top. It all boils down to whether you want a roll of string to do 22 or 23 racquets, or more, instead of the standard 20. If this is your primary job, you just do the standard 20 because it is easier to measure out and is quicker. But for part-time, we try to be economically.
getting another string into a reel is saving like US$5-6. it is good for optimal sake. but sometimes i wonder if the effort is worth it or not. my time and frustration is worth more than a few bucks. maybe i am getting old.
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Not worth it for me. Although I try to save string, I make sure I have just enough to reach the tensionner every time and also make sure I can preweave 1 ahead for crosses and reach the tensionner until the very last cross. The extra 3-5 minutes (or more in some extreme cases) I save every string job is worth more than the 10$ worth of extra string I'd get.
yeah. stringing is a game of large numbers. save 3 minutes each for 20 string jobs in a reel is an hour saved. that's 2-3 more rackets for the pros which amounts to much more than US$6 savings for squeezing one more string out of it.
Yes, everyone is getting old! Generally, a roll of 200m is actually longer than 656 ft. Most BG-65 rolls I have used are around 672 ft - so with most racquets requiring 28 ft of string, I usually get 24 racquets out of a roll. I generally do 2 piece stringing, so most times 15.5 ft for mains, 12.5 ft for crosses - +- 0.5 ft depending on racquet head size. BabolaT racquets generally use 27 ft.
