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Q: Maybe it’s just because I deal with a lot of older, eclectic racquets, but it seems to me that a lot of them aren’t in the Stringer’s Digest. I’ve been calling tech support and they often can find the stringing instructions I seek, but I also just found out that almost all of these patterns are on-line at RacquetTECH.com. It’s difficult for me to get to the computer while I’m stringing. Why don’t you just put all the patterns into the Stringer’s Digest?

A: The Stringer’s Digest is not a complete listing of all the racquets for which we have stringing instructions. In fact, it represents only about half of the patterns we have in our database. We take the older and more obscure out of the Digest to speed up locating the racquets that are being restrung more often. As you note, there is an almost-complete listing on the Digest On-line, on our website. For some of the odd-balls that are missing from the Digest On-line (such as the Wilson T-2000 series and the Dunlop DP series frames), we have downloadable files to which you can refer. We do have some printed stringing instructions in our files that have not made it to the website, so if you are looking for instructions that are not in the Digest and not on-line, it may still be worth a call to us, just in case.

The same holds true for the really new frames. We are able to keep pretty current on the new releases, but we don’t reprint the Digest every time we get a new pattern. We generally have new patterns on the website within a couple days of receiving them, so if you do have Internet access, you are likely to find what you are looking for, no matter how new.

In either case, if you make it a point to look for the stringing instructions for each racquet when it gets turned in, instead of waiting until the day it is due to be picked up, you will probably find that all the steps won’t seem like such an ordeal because you won’t be under the pressure of a quickly-approaching deadline.

From the June 2004 issue
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