As you know in all major tournaments, the strings are painted with the product logo on it e.g. YY and some people have their string painted as well, using gloss paint?. My question is will the paint spoil/affect the performance of the string?
Re: Does paint affects the performance of the stri hmm thats a really good question.........I dont know! i want to find out toooo
Re: Does paint affects the performance of the stri perhaps it becomes more slippery ,if you slice or slide (which is the right word?). --olli
Re: Does paint affects the performance of the stri No not necessarily. What it does do, is muck up your shuttle really good. Basically the logo is just to help promote the sponsors equipment some more. But here's an interesting subject to think about... could you make the paint on your racquet a certain consistency, and possibly cheat, by making it stickier??? I don't know, just my though... I think the paints are supposed to be tried completely though before you're allowed to play with it. I don't get the logo put on anymore as it's a fairly messy thing to deal with.
Re: Does paint affects the performance of the stri Ni, they dun affect. cos the string is able to absord the wet competely so it will not be slippery. The string is made of syn. It is the same theory as wearing a painted shoes and running in the field and wearing a non-painted one so u can see that there is no differences
Re: Does paint affects the performance of the stri Yes and no. There are basically two types of stencil color: ink and paint. The most common one is the red ink which is thin and will not affect performance. On many new racquets (Carltons for instance) the color is a black paint which is sometimes laid on quite thick. This increases the wear of the string (the paint can result in "grooves" with quite sharp edges) so that it will break sooner.
Re: Does paint affects the performance of the stri Anyone of you here has got the original Yonex stencil card, which is for the logo and the Yonex stencil ink???????????
Re: Does paint affects the performance of the stri Kelvin where did you get those stuff? Is it original from YY?
Re: Does paint affects the performance of the stri Yes, I bought it from Yonex a few years ago... You have to shake the ink up really well, or it will come out all clumpy, and yuck. I don't use it anymore though. Only cost me a total of $10 Canadian. which is about $4-5 USD. Special deal, since I bought in quantity back then, but it's allll but gone now. I still have a clean new stencil, and black ink bottle though.
Re: Does paint affects the performance of the stri Did you have the stencil card? Do you want to sell it to me?
Re: Does paint affects the performance of the stri Come on guys... it's the simplest thing to do your own!
Re: Does paint affects the performance of the stri Mag, I also noticed that black paint on the factory string on my new Airblade 600Ti and it did seem a bit thick. By the way, it appeared to me the factory string on my Carlton was a monofilament line and from both its appearance and from everything I've ever heard about factory string from any brand of racquets, it seems that I should replace it with a better string. What do you think? What string do you use on your Carltons? A friend of mine who strings racquets has a reel of Ashaway Microlegend and I was thinking about using some of that (he also tells me that Microlegend keeps its tension much better than the BG-65 that I have been using). Of course, I may wait a while to restring, depending on whether and how Carlton responds to my inquiries about a replacement under warranty.
Mag is right... It's honestly nothing really important. I was helping friends do that way back in highschool. Now they don't even give a crap. It's only for show anyways. However, I garauntee you that if you do the job yourself, it's a lot better than the job that the factories do, eg. Brett's factory strings... it's done by machine.
Re: Mag is right... now why would u want to paint a yonex logo on ur strings? i think that looks too OEMish
