Panda Power: A Racket That Can Take 40lbs. String Tension!

**dimcorner** · 07-09-2011, 03:41 PM

Woven head and shaft? Is the shaft going to be thin? I like B

**Larsmd** · 07-09-2011, 03:50 PM

Hey my vote would be C but i thought every racket plays best without paintings on the head?

**Sketchy** · 07-09-2011, 04:27 PM

I thought more people would like C.
Oh well, never mind. I don't think Dan's very keen on gold either.
Thanks guys.

@ dimcorner -
I'm not sure if any of the technical details have been decided yet.
The last I heard, the frame was going to be woven carbon/kevlar/titanium, and the shaft just woven carbon - but that may change (if it hasn't already).

@ Larsmd -
Not having tried identical rackets with and without graphics, I can't comment.
Roughly half of the racket is left without graphics though, and even the TPro and UPro have a clearcoat on the frames (carbon without any coating at all is really not very pretty - woven or otherwise).

**Mark A** · 07-09-2011, 04:38 PM

A, B, C, in that order. B's shaft twists are a bit busy, and C's colours run over into Precision territory. A is pretty much spot on, not least because it reminds me of the black Arc 10 (IMO the best looking racket ever made). B has the best cone, though - the dc logo just needs turning 90 deg. anti-clockwise

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If the thicker frame stripes from B were grafted onto A... perfick

**visor** · 07-09-2011, 05:19 PM

C is too gold, A is too plain.

Hence B, but the twists should be toned down a tad by making them thinner.

**DinkAlot** · 07-09-2011, 06:00 PM

Update: Panda is just about all done with Mama Panda's stuff so will be back focusing on rackets and the website...after July 16th; as this coming week, Panda will be stringing for Yonex at the U.S. Open.

If you're going to the U.S. Open, come by the stringing area and say "Hi".

**j4ckie** · 07-09-2011, 06:09 PM

Originally Posted by DinkAlot

Update: Panda is just about all done with Mama Panda's stuff so will be back focusing on rackets and the website...after July 16th; as this coming week, Panda will be stringing for Yonex at the U.S. Open.

If you're going to the U.S. Open, come by the stringing area and say "Hi".

Sounds cool =) Have fun at the USO!

***cobalt*** · 07-09-2011, 09:19 PM

A is the one.
The shaft on B looks like it's wrapped up for Christmas. C is for Vegas.
But A looks like it just means business. Gets my vote. Besides, I'm a confessed lover of the W7

**DinkAlot** · 07-09-2011, 09:53 PM

As for voting on the Revelation design, this Panda likes all three designs, cannot decide.

P.S. Like the new GUI, good job Kwun.

**ormy4** · 07-09-2011, 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by Mark A

A, B, C, in that order. B's shaft twists are a bit busy, and C's colours run over into Precision territory. A is pretty much spot on, not least because it reminds me of the black Arc 10 (IMO the best looking racket ever made). B has the best cone, though - the dc logo just needs turning 90 deg. anti-clockwise

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If the thicker frame stripes from B were grafted onto A... perfick

After looking at it several time agree with Mark that if you put the wider stripes of B [head ...silver] on the A it would
look best. If the word Revelation is the same color as that stripe ties it together nicely. Cough cough have a Revelation
prototype and people love seeing the woven as it has no paint on it at all. The woven pattern is nice looking by itself so
people have to take this in consideration. The stripes on the shaft I feel catch you eye too much and after awhile take
away from the racket. Curious why C has gold on it as that is the TPro color. Would have to be another besides gold, green,
or purple as all are currently used.

So my vote is A others not considered at this time.

**alana07** · 07-10-2011, 12:53 AM

B's whole frame from 7 o'clock till 5 o'clock mated to A's whole shaft up to 6 o'clock of frame.

**phandrew** · 07-10-2011, 12:54 AM

I take the head of A and the shaft/cone of B

**teojb** · 07-10-2011, 01:40 AM

B with the cone replaced by that in A.

**Mark A** · 07-10-2011, 07:57 AM

Originally Posted by ormy4

Cough cough have a Revelation
prototype and people love seeing the woven as it has no paint on it at all. The woven pattern is nice looking by itself so
people have to take this in consideration.

Yep: there's a lot more happening on the Revelation than you can see on those graphics - like ormy, I know

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**Teebs** · 07-10-2011, 10:45 AM

I would go for A but why are we returning to the older style of panda graphics? I thought the TPro/UPro styling was so unlike any other racquet that it defined them. Also made them look like beasts, particularly the purple/blue Upro.

**demolidor** · 07-10-2011, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by Teebs

I would go for A but why are we returning to the older style of panda graphics? I thought the TPro/UPro styling was so unlike any other racquet that it defined them. Also made them look like beasts, particularly the purple/blue Upro.

It's not a Revelation Pro now is it

? I agree with Mark A on the wider striping on the frame of B for A, that's why I opted for a null vote alternatively

. Also if all the black was replaced by just clearcoat I'm sure it would look snazzy

. Not so sure about that cone of b though

or turning the logo 90 degrees ccw. Looked awkward on the T2 already ...

I wonder if all the B pickers chose it for the xtra visible woven or they actually like the Voltric snake twirl stripe copy? Which on it's own looks quite good but as mentioned as well perphaps with the thinner stripes on the frame of A ...

I do actually like the gold of C over B but not in combo with that shade of gray (and I'm having a really hard time picturing that cone irl)

**ormy4** · 07-10-2011, 03:53 PM

Bit of a rethink

With the shaft I believe staying woven need to show that off

so to make this simpler

pick b
- take the silver stripes off the shaft and just blend into woven or have
a neutral pinstripe.
- put cone from A on it

Will see if I can do something in paint to see how this looks hopefully a few
others can be creative as well