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Another ATW method

After reading Liam Nolan’s around-the-world (ATW) stringing method, I’d like to pass along mine, which also eliminates misweaves, counting crosses, and skipping multiple crosses. I also find my method a bit faster.

For frames that are candidates for ATW (that is, where the mains normally end at the throat), start off by stringing all but the outer mains. Tie off the short side at the head. With the long side, skip the first cross at the head. Weave the remaining crosses, then the last main on whichever side you wind up, then the top cross, and the remaining main. Tie off at the throat.

My simple approach has proven to be very satisfactory when stringing multiple frames in the team/tournament environment under compressed time constraints.

5 sets of Babolat Xcel Premium 16 to:

Bill Thompson, MRT, Farmville, VA

Editor’s note: Longtime stringers will recognize this as the “universal method” from the Stringer’s Digest back in the early 1990s. In addition to the benefits noted by Bill, it also does not require a starting clamp, which means it also does not require retensioning and reclamping to remove the starting clamp. You will need to measure the short side differently, however, to avoid wasting string on the short side and running out of string on the long side.

From the November 2007 issue
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