I can tell this was the brighest of the bunch! I can hardly find any paint flaws unlike my other racquets! It's a precious gem that doubles as a weapon of mass destruction! wow, I didn't even notice that "Gunmetal" wording difference. "Rubber-metal" aka ELASTICTi like on my other ones I'm assuming
I dont quite understand what you mean but err Gum-metal = ゴム ( rubber = elastic ) -メタル (metal [titanium] - from English) Bleh Gummetal and Elastic-Ti are the same thing >___>
I mean, that is the written Japanese -> English pronunciation? I believe it's called Kanji/Romaji or something. Ie. like in those fan subs in a song, where you see the English translation on the bottom and on the top you see the Japanese-English pronunciation. Similar to what you had in your initial response. From what I know is that the word GUMMETAL cannot be used outside of Japan. It is something to do with a patent that applies outside if I recall.
Hmm.. in that case, it would be 'gom-metal'. That just doesnt sound right in English, so I guess that they changed it to Gum-metal instead. Oh but hey wait, the JP coded ones are mostly used by Japanese residents, so anything written in English doesnt really matter to them.
Concerning the word "GUNMETAL". As far as I know the word has a Copyright print, which meants it is protected worldwide and could be used also outside Japan. Therefore i do not know why it isn't print on non-japan-coded rackets. :-(. Maybe to underline the privelegs to own a "genuine" Japan racket that has been bought in JAPAN.
True, there is a copyright however, there is a patent outside of Japan which is essentially the same thing, therefore it cannot be used.
Great to hear that then! Elastic-Ti=Gummetal!Probably JP uses the word Gummetal just because the pronounciation is similar to the japanese,so that the japanese knows what it means.
Gary did this one himself with the electronic Prince machine. As for Optiblue's AT900P from Japan, as ph_leung mentioned, we picked it out at the Windsor Racket shop in Shinjuku as seen here: We also checked out Wembley's in Ikebukuro here: And we also visited the Windsor Racket store in Ikebukuro as well:
woah~ talk about selection! I think it would take me a few hours before coming out of of any of those stores!
Nice high quality pictures!! It probably was not a busy day when Gary did it on the electronics. If you come on weekends when it's like busy, most/all badminton rackets are on the crank and all tennis rackets are on the electronics. I am not quite fond of electronic machines so I'll stick with the Prince Neo 1000 (crank).
Nice pics.. i always like to see the pics of other peoples racket. Eventhough all the rackets looks the same.. to the respective owner.. the each racket have their Individual "soul" in it. That is what make it special. Respect your racket.
People in Vancouver are lucky to have Tad's. In comparison to the stores we've seen in HK and Japan, Tad's has an impressive range of brands for rackets and grip. One thing we noticed about the 900s overseas is that almost the whole rack of them had cones glued off angle. It is very noticeable especially if you hold it with your thumb on the cone or stare down the racket shaft. I'd say about 5 degrees.
