Cake’s String Reviews

all done with classes, hoping i get that fire back that lets me do this, we will see :slight_smile:

TopYo Bulk || B- (81/100)


Absolute sleeper pick, I’m a fan of this. Felt pretty averagely soft with a wind leaning towards tight. Amazing fat thickness that doesn’t overdo itself, but it’s still thicker. Slacks are nicely open and naturally slower, but can be pushed to where you need, same with whips. All those air-time string movements feel really good to perform, but everything starts to fall off (just a bit) around the 40 minute mark. My string was looking very used by 30 minutes, and an hour brought a bit more frays. All the performance qualities felt the same, but the string gets rougher and feels worse to me. I concede this is 100% a me thing, and if you don’t mind/prefer slightly sticky and rough string then go full speed for this, but it left a bad taste in my mouth. Tension holding was NEVER a major concern, but it was pretty blended into the background.

Overall, this is great. Nicely thick, slower, controlled, pretty neutral string while still being very capable, if that makes sense. For BULK, this solos tons of stuff out there. I won’t be using this because I have my preferred corner of strings, but this is amazing. Stats below.

Durability 30 min (2.5)
Durability 1 hr (3)
Personal Thickness Feel (4.5)
Whip Feel Break-In (4.5)
Whip Feel 1 hr (4.5)
Slack Feel Break-In (4.5)
Slack Feel 1 hr (4.5)
Tension Hold over 1 hour overall (4)
Softness during break-in (3.5)
Overall consistency over 1 hour (5)
Total: 40.5 x 2 = 81, 81 = B- graded based on letter system (A: 100-90, B: 89-80, C: 79-70, D: 69-60, F: 60<)

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