Got a Fora at worlds….kind of need a pack of Canopy Rope now….
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I will soon receive some canopy rope as well l, based on cake’s review. Can’t wait!
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OT Sitanggang is my new favorite string. I really liked original OT Fat but hate the way it feels once it starts to get worn out. It’s like a feeling that messes with my sensory feelings if thats the term. These don’t do that. Still haven’t got to try Hunter’s I heard they last longer.
Another thing that confuses me is I have the Crescendo and have no clue how Johnathan binds so well with his signature string.
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Very sticky pads
I’ve been thinking of swapping them. I like the crescendo alot.
Safe to assume softer pads or is just really used to it at this point.
I play his OT string a lot and it used to play kinda slippery in his older sig, the GTR-JS, until I did a pad swap.
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I’ve never had that issue! I even tried the string with a Crescendo I have and it felt great. I don’t remember the kinds of pads in it though
Maybe its just my Crescendo. My yoyos with pads down to almost the metal bind better than the Crescendo I have 
Did you try swapping to a more shallow bearing?
I haven’t. What kind of bearing do you mean?
I believe Duncans come standard with a concave bearing. If you swap it for a more shallow bearing, i.e. CT, DS, VIP, etc, it should help with slippy binds as the string will be closer to the response area. However, if your style of play involves loading lots of string into the gap, make sure the bearing you swap it with isn’t too shallow, or it will be more likely to snag. You likely gonna have to try out whatever you have on hand to see what works best for you
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how so?
In my experience, (my Summer Solstice during 1July is a great example) when I noticed binds were slipping with a CT, I swapped it for a VIP and binds were normal again until the pads recessed even further. When that happened I swapped the VIP for a flat. The yoyo was snaggy for a bit afterwards as the Solstice has a more narrow gap. You will need less string to bind with if the bearing is shallow. In other words, the tail you have when you set up for a bind won’t be as long.
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I think this is not correct. Flat bearings require less string for the bind to take. Center track requires bit more and concave require bit more than than.
Please correct me if I am wrong!
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That’s exactly what I mean. A flat is more shallow than a CT, which is more shallow than a concave. Sorry, I should have specified
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sry my quote got cut off before i intended, but i was asking how a flatter bearing would lead to being closer to the response area
It isn’t necessarily closer to the response area per se, but a flatter bearing will more easily contact the response area as there is nothing to stop or “correct" the course and movement on the string.
Practically if you put something in a U-shape rotated around a plane, gravity will tend to make the object stay around in the trough of the U instead of how a flat surface would work
I’ll give you a visual when I get home. Think of it this way: if you have a line at the inner wall of the response area, and a dot at the lowest point in the bearing, the flatter/more shallow/less deep a bearing is, the closer that point will be to the line
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In short, kinda like how the hypotenuse of a right triangle is longer than either of the other legs of that triangle. Idk if that simplifies things seeing as how I’m using trig but that is the comparison that comes to mind
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@theendofcake - When can I send you some new strings?
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