Wow I was looking at luxilon natural gut and remembered the video you made in Palo Alto and when I searched for it on TH-cam and you had uploaded this review 25 min ago. 😳
I used to use Prince Synthetic original gut 17 gold. I had 50 reels in the 80s thru early 2000s. When I finally ran out, I bought two reels from Tennis Warehouse.....it was TOTALLY DIFFERENT. They changed the formula.
I used the Luxilon and strung my Clash at 58 lbs. It's not like Wilson's original gut and it had more of a polyester stiff feel. For a 58 year old USTA tournament player I think the regular gut is much better for my elbow.
Hello from Ireland. The cow is sacred in this country. Ireland is one of the most successful producers of beef and dairy products in the world. They are exported all over the world. There is also a successful industry in Ireland over the 'fifth quarter' or what is left of the cow after beef and dairy. These include protein products, whey powder etc. It doesn't surprise me that natural gut from cow intestines is also made in Ireland (also part of the fifth quarter). I have played with Luxilon natural gut, which is very powerful and has great feel but unfortunately not suited to the climate of Ireland, where it rains a lot.
Glad you did this review as I tried it for the first time last month and it was excellent. Amazing feel, soft and great spin potential. Your assessment prior made no sense to me.
Great string. I hybrid 1.30 with Kirshbaum Max Power 1.25. Plays slightly stiffer than VS, which I like. I break VS in 5 hours, I get about 7-8 from the Lux.
Started playing some actual competitive matches again lately (singles -- wow, I totally suck right now!) and noticed that I no longer have much feel anymore. I've been trying out too many polys and decided to fall back to Triax and synthetic gut. Much, much better feel. I might have to try out natural gut again. The last time I tried natural gut was a long time ago and it was Klip natural gut. It was kind of as you described stringing that older Luxilon natural gut. It seemed a bit squeaky when it tensioned. But it played pretty well. It just didn't seem all that much better than synthetic gut at the time, so I abandoned using it because of the value difference. I'm thinking now that I need to keep three different racquet setups. One for power and touch, one for control, and the last as a sort of inbetween, just depending on how I'm playing. I'll definitely have to keep Luxilon natural gut in mind...
Enjoy your love of the game - cannot be sheep gut as the long lengths needed for today's larger frames cannot come from sheep. Beef intestines are needed for these longer lengths - sheep was exceptional in the very early wood frames. In fact, many post WWII pros envied the responsive gut strings of that earlier era. I am glad that Lux has changed their gut to a softer process - I found their introductory gut very dead and stiff as compared to the gold standard of natural gut. Yet as stiffness and durability seem to be necessary for today's large frames and the "marketing" of spin, spin, & more spin, I doubt that the magical, softer dynamics of earlier guts will ever come our way again...
Hardly anyone really wants to pay the price for natural gut, but there is really no equal for playability. Greatest rationale for stringing your own racquets.
I thought that you would create a hybrid for this video. How many people do a full set of gut these days? I thought Eric might be from Dublin, Ireland where the gut is made!
@Will Forney “four-to-five” sounds similar to “four-ty-five”. Most online sources say that it takes on average 2-3 cows to produce 1 40ft set of Natural gut.
Wow I was looking at luxilon natural gut and remembered the video you made in Palo Alto and when I searched for it on TH-cam and you had uploaded this review 25 min ago. 😳
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Thank you for your comment-o-a
FINALLY! I saw the video where she mentioned it at the other shop, and didn't want to buy it until Harry made a video on it.
I just gooogled it 5h ago
I used to use Prince Synthetic original gut 17 gold. I had 50 reels in the 80s thru early 2000s. When I finally ran out, I bought two reels from Tennis Warehouse.....it was TOTALLY DIFFERENT. They changed the formula.
I use Luxilon Natural Gut 1,25 in the mains and Luxilon Alu Power Rough 1,25 in the crosses. Nice hybrid. Great durability
Do you hit flat? How long it works before it breaks on you?
What tension do you use?
I used the Luxilon and strung my Clash at 58 lbs. It's not like Wilson's original gut and it had more of a polyester stiff feel. For a 58 year old USTA tournament player I think the regular gut is much better for my elbow.
Hello from Ireland. The cow is sacred in this country. Ireland is one of the most successful producers of beef and dairy products in the world. They are exported all over the world. There is also a successful industry in Ireland over the 'fifth quarter' or what is left of the cow after beef and dairy. These include protein products, whey powder etc. It doesn't surprise me that natural gut from cow intestines is also made in Ireland (also part of the fifth quarter). I have played with Luxilon natural gut, which is very powerful and has great feel but unfortunately not suited to the climate of Ireland, where it rains a lot.
Glad you did this review as I tried it for the first time last month and it was excellent. Amazing feel, soft and great spin potential. Your assessment prior made no sense to me.
Great string. I hybrid 1.30 with Kirshbaum Max Power 1.25. Plays slightly stiffer than VS, which I like. I break VS in 5 hours, I get about 7-8 from the Lux.
I found the lux natural gut very durable and non-fraying, almost as durable as a soft poly. Notches over time but doesn't fray much.
Started playing some actual competitive matches again lately (singles -- wow, I totally suck right now!) and noticed that I no longer have much feel anymore. I've been trying out too many polys and decided to fall back to Triax and synthetic gut. Much, much better feel. I might have to try out natural gut again. The last time I tried natural gut was a long time ago and it was Klip natural gut. It was kind of as you described stringing that older Luxilon natural gut. It seemed a bit squeaky when it tensioned. But it played pretty well. It just didn't seem all that much better than synthetic gut at the time, so I abandoned using it because of the value difference. I'm thinking now that I need to keep three different racquet setups. One for power and touch, one for control, and the last as a sort of inbetween, just depending on how I'm playing. I'll definitely have to keep Luxilon natural gut in mind...
Enjoy your love of the game - cannot be sheep gut as the long lengths needed for today's larger frames cannot come from sheep. Beef intestines are needed for these longer lengths - sheep was exceptional in the very early wood frames. In fact, many post WWII pros envied the responsive gut strings of that earlier era.
I am glad that Lux has changed their gut to a softer process - I found their introductory gut very dead and stiff as compared to the gold standard of natural gut. Yet as stiffness and durability seem to be necessary for today's large frames and the "marketing" of spin, spin, & more spin, I doubt that the magical, softer dynamics of earlier guts will ever come our way again...
Hardly anyone really wants to pay the price for natural gut, but there is really no equal for playability. Greatest rationale for stringing your own racquets.
Hey, so the next question is if they are the same price would you pick the Wilson guy or the Lux?
So wilson is really out there watching people's videos? That's crazy
Is it possible that the Lux Natural is just Wilson Natural with Lux packaging?
ive wondered this as well
I thought that you would create a hybrid for this video. How many people do a full set of gut these days? I thought Eric might be from Dublin, Ireland where the gut is made!
Kerrygold butter is from Ireland too? Moo...
Try the 2x speed, is a really good time saver
Are those the St Mary's courts in Moraga?
I switched from VS to Völkl gut, $15 cheaper and works just as well for me
What’s the tension you used?
At how many pounds did you string it.
i'm trying this on one of my new strikes...
What tension on the Clash?
Gotta try it
What gauge?
Do you not get calls for bumper guards and grommet sets or do people not replace them.
You are wasting your time texting him unless you are trying to buy him coffee. Lol.
@@GeneralRock114 I agree
He has some interesting videos.
I always knew about the yellow loxilon ...ididnt know there is an old suck version.
It’s a lot easier to string with the no kinks
Ireland export beef all over Europe. One of the biggest exporters of cow meat in Europe. So I am sure there is lots of cows over there. :)
It is cow gut. I was talking to a Luxilon rep at the Miami open and apparently it takes 45 cows to make 1 racquet worth of natural gut
you sure it isn't 4-5 cows?
@@UnFutura93 I was shocked as well but he said 45 twice
@Will Forney “four-to-five” sounds similar to “four-ty-five”. Most online sources say that it takes on average 2-3 cows to produce 1 40ft set of Natural gut.
@@UnFutura93 don't know what to tell you man. I was there. He said 45 and we talked about the absurdity of it
It's Gorilla gut
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