One of my good customers has shown me one of his racquets that his coach in Hong Kong has done for him. He likes it as he says the sweet spot feels higher. Here it is, I need a pattern on instructions to try and replicate it.
Don't want to crush any illusions, but you can't move the sweet spot of a racket with using different patterns. And without seeing the strings on the outside of the frame it's impossible to tell which pattern was used. Only thing to say is that it's one piece.
Yeah fair enough. It seems like the best fit at the moment, but I'm making an educated guess at where the strings are coming in and out. Shame the right side been cut off, since I was trying to trace where the string goes ATW.
Looks like the exact same pattern I use. Can you post pics of the sides? I can tell if its haribito or not.
Just took a closer look at the picture on a bigger screen. Is that top knot really stuffed in one if those top shared grommets together with two other strings? That's somehow against nature...
But why would you want to do that?! Just to move the knot away from the sweet spot strings? Stuffing three strings through one grommet must be a real pain in the lower back.
This is a common case of "Someone good uses this, so it feels good when I use it". I think the best way to counter this is to string his racket the normal way and tell him "This is a special pattern that was created specifically by Lin Dan himself and he refuses to play with something else". The player will still feel that his racket plays incredibly well and you'll save the complexity of reproducing this bs pattern and the increased risk of strings breaking from mis-hits. Just my very cynical 2c though.
Skipping one cross towards the bottom of the racket was apparently quite common in the "old days" and you still see this from time to time today. Just look at the racket of TTY (it was also discussed in her player's thread). Her dad is a true old-school stringer. But in the end it comes down to this - if there was a significant advantage in doing this, at least the majority of the pros would have it also. So I use my precious stringing time to care about other things that are ensure a consistent result in the end and don't bother with stringing-voodoo stuff like that.
Hahaha I have no clue, I don't do it because it looks really ugly, I just don't like one piece in general.
Here's a video I just took. Been in a bit of a rush since posting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0hT5A7zOd8
Dude, that seriously is a weird pattern. And I have just learned that it's damn difficult to figure a pattern just by looking at a couple of seconds at pictures and not being able to touch the rackets and actually feel where the strings are coming from and going to. First of all, I struggle with that strange knot in the top shared grommet. Should be around 0:07 in the video. I just can't figure a third string going into that shared grommet. Or am I blind? Apart from that, I would say it's a Haribito pattern with a skipped cross at the bottom. But that top part is seriously confusing me...
Ok so I have Kwun's Haribito video. Looks like I need to buy a starting clamp, or would a couple of flying clamps do?
[MENTION=113405]s_mair[/MENTION] It looks like he's skipping to loop back around so like.. -------4-------- -------2-------- -------3-------- -------1-------- I guess it could also be the Panzhuan. I've been meaning to try the pattern but I couldn't do it properly first time. I got lost at the first crosses.
What is a Panzhuan pattern? Man, you are trying some fancy stuff right in the beginning! [MENTION=96935]dbswansea[/MENTION] Flying clamps are prefect for that. Just use a small piece of cardboard between the frame and the clamp to protect the frame and surrounding strings.
With the AE coming up my budget is tight. Anyone used the PP red clamp? I regularly string around 30lb.
I've got the red PP flying clamp and it holds my 32/34 jobs against the frame absolutely no problem. Just put a bit of beermat in between.