I received two brand new Gearbox Solid 1.0 170 Teardrop racquets yesterday. I restrung them both at 32lbs. One was strung with Gearbox 17 gauge multifilament and one with Gearbox 17 gauge mono premium. I played 5 games with the multi and then hit the mono between games 5 and 6. I will never play with mono again!!! The mono felt like I was hitting the ball with a wooden plank compared with the soft touch and feel of the multi string. Nuff said!

Hey,

Ya same thing for me. I am all decked out in Pro Kennex and I did that a bit ago with Pro Kennex Liquid multi and then the newer mono that Pro Kennex makes and swung one night with both. Needless to say I share the same thought as you. Never playing with mono again! Its just so much cheaper to string my racquets with mono since I am such a string breaker.

I've tried a lot of different multifilaments but I still prefer the crisp feel and response of a standard nylon monofilament. I also seem to have less problems finding my range and length in the court using a monofilament.

I wouldn't string a multi and a mono at the same tension. I had a customer once come to me after restringing his racquet a couple of times with someone else.

I knocked a couple of lbs. off and the mono played well for him. In my opinion, mono is already pretty stiff and needs more slack than a multi.

I'd rather stick with multi for my own stuff.

--Joe.

Agreed. Multi all the way. It also gives the wear pattern so I can see where I'm hitting the ball as it starts to fray.

Or moreso, I should say, I have never found a mono that gave me the pop a multi will.

joedel

I wouldn't string a multi and a mono at the same tension. I had a customer once come to me after restringing his racquet a couple of times with someone else.

I knocked a couple of lbs. off and the mono played well for him. In my opinion, mono is already pretty stiff and needs more slack than a multi.

I'd rather stick with multi for my own stuff.

--Joe.

Good point. I may give that a try but, like you, I'm definitely sticking to multi for my own gear.

joedel

I wouldn't string a multi and a mono at the same tension. I had a customer once come to me after restringing his racquet a couple of times with someone else.

I knocked a couple of lbs. off and the mono played well for him. In my opinion, mono is already pretty stiff and needs more slack than a multi.

I'd rather stick with multi for my own stuff.

--Joe.

I disagree. Dynamic stiffness is the physical property of the string itself. A stiff playing string doesn't necessarily mean that it needs to be at a lower tension. Lowering tension does nothing to make a string less stiff but changes the rebound characteristics of the stringbed so that you lose more control.

In regards to tension loss not all multifilaments are the same. Monofilaments are no exception. You have to know the string you're using, specifically how stiff it is and how much tension it loses over the course of play.

More string property info (graphs/lists) than you could ever want...

-Jim

JCamasto

More string property info (graphs/lists) than you could ever want...

-Jim

Thanks for the link Jim. That's the data that I had in mind in my previous post.

Hilario

I disagree. Dynamic stiffness is the physical property of the string itself. A stiff playing string doesn't necessarily mean that it needs to be at a lower tension. Lowering tension does nothing to make a string less stiff but changes the rebound characteristics of the stringbed so that you lose more control.

In regards to tension loss not all multifilaments are the same. Monofilaments are no exception. You have to know the string you're using, specifically how stiff it is and how much tension it loses over the course of play.

I haven't used a mono string personally. I stocked mono-kill from Ashaway (for short time) and E-Force Platinum. Mono-kill felt like chicken wire and was very hard to work with. Platinum was a little better, but has broken pretty quickly by people.

When this customer came to me with problems with another mono. I dropped the tension a bit and it worked great. Customer wasn't a hard hitter or anything just wanted the string bed to last.

I use the Gearbox Mono on a couple of frames and has worked well at lower tensions. Basically I'm afraid of people popping a string hitting too close to the frame or something.

Idk, I'll try the Gearbox mono personally and see what happens.

Later,
--Joe.

"Mono-kill felt like chicken wire and was very hard to work with."

Have you tried the Ashaway 16g Ultrakill (black). Holy cow.

Ultrakill 16g? Nope, now I'm afraid. Do you have to use pliers to bend the string into the holes?

--Joe.

some 50lb muskie line might work well in that regard too...