# Lesson Learned about Vintage String
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/lesson-learned-about-vintage-string/357739
**Category:** General Yo-Yo
**Created:** [May 22, 2022, 8:54pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/lesson-learned-about-vintage-string/357739 "2022-05-22T20:54:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Roy\_Dodge](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Roy_Dodge)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2022, 2:04am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/lesson-learned-about-vintage-string/357739/21 "2022-05-23T02:04:37Z")
It was intended as a joke. Apologies that it didn’t translate well through the interwebs.
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### Author:  [@StrangeBird](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/StrangeBird)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2022, 2:06am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/lesson-learned-about-vintage-string/357739/22 "2022-05-23T02:06:42Z")
Haha well damn that’s a whoosh for me.
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### Author:  [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2022, 3:14am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/lesson-learned-about-vintage-string/357739/23 "2022-05-23T03:14:05Z")
> [@StrangeBird](#):
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> Thanks for your input and observations/suggestions.
As I noted, that was then. Processes have evolved and dyed cotton is probably better now. Based on my past experience I only use white cotton, primarily on my looping yoyos.
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### Author:  [@rajones19](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/rajones19)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2022, 3:59am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/lesson-learned-about-vintage-string/357739/24 "2022-05-23T03:59:46Z")
It translated just great. I’m probably double your age, and virtually everything from my youth is not only “vintage,” much of it is in the museum. It’s always sobering!
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### Author:  [@Hanker](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Hanker)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2022, 12:52am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/lesson-learned-about-vintage-string/357739/25 "2022-05-24T00:52:13Z")
I don’t think OTS normal is the same thickness as Kitty fat, it’s thickness is more similar to Kitty normal instead.
@StrangeBird if you like the RBC string and think it’s great you can just get it, if not, you can buy the thinner version. There is a slim version of the Original Throw string.
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> Shuyun Tang, founder of Original Throw, and his friends have worked with factories to make the “perfect” yo-yo strings which could handle all styles. They sent sample strings to over 100 players all over China and after 9 prototypes they believe...
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### Author:  [@mable](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mable)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2022, 1:01am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/lesson-learned-about-vintage-string/357739/26 "2022-05-24T01:01:46Z")
OTS sizes are one size up from Kitty. Other players will echo this too, I know other players have done more in depth comparisons. I have a pack of OTS fat that I use for 3A/5A and it’s the same thickness as Kitty XL.
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### Author:  [@Hanker](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Hanker)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2022, 1:07am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/lesson-learned-about-vintage-string/357739/27 "2022-05-24T01:07:04Z")
Interesting, because I have a pack of OTS normal and it’s quite similar in size to Kitty normal, about the same as YYSL Nytro. Did they accidentally send me the slim size then?
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### Author:  [@mable](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mable)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2022, 1:19am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/lesson-learned-about-vintage-string/357739/28 "2022-05-24T01:19:54Z")
Slim is the outlier with OTS and is actually like a thread thinner than kitty normal. Nytro should be thicker than kitty normal though, more in line with OTS.
I think what’s actually the case is just that string thickness is a lot of personal preference and to an extent it doesn’t really matter what you’re using as long as it works. There’s people who play with fat in yoyos with a 4.0mm gap, personally that’s too much for me and I think normal plays better in them. The point is that both work.
The better you are the more of a difference it’ll make, but as long as you can bind in a way you’re happy with, it whips enough to do the hooks/whips you want, and it can handle the amount of string layers your tricks require, it kind of doesn’t matter what the actual thickness is.
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### Author:  [@Hanker](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Hanker)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2022, 1:27am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/lesson-learned-about-vintage-string/357739/29 "2022-05-24T01:27:16Z")
Hmm fascinating. I’ll check again when I get back and maybe post some pictures as well so we can get to the bottom of this.
If what you’re saying about OTS normal is right, then I guess that would be the case because for me OTS normal plays like Kitty normal in its response.
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### Author:  [@Hanker](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Hanker)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2022, 1:35pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/lesson-learned-about-vintage-string/357739/30 "2022-05-25T13:35:22Z")
Found time to dig out my strings, I find that they all have the same thickness.
Top to bottom:
Kitty Normal (old formula)
Sochi Normal
Kitty 1st Class Normal
Original Throw String Normal
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