Natural Gut / Fishing Line?

After reading about my past fishing line experiments, an acquaintance got really curious. He pestered me to string one up for him to try.

With the ridiculous amount of time needed for string prep and prestretch, coupled with the low success rate and very short playing durability, I put on a straight face and quoted him something absurd.

Within seconds, he stuffed that amount into my hands. Ouch!!! Guess I have to re-live my nightmare on elm street again...

Thus far, fishing line was the only "string" that snapped and cut my hand and face during tensioning. When the string slipped, it also sent my flying clamps literally flying. The dropweight also crashed into and dented my table top. My pinky was also cut when tugging at the knot. 

(If you have not read how difficult it was to string with fishing line, you can click here to find out)

While digging through my spools, and looking at the shimmering slick smooth surface, I wondered how would it perform as a cross with natural gut mains. Could it outperform poly?

Since I had plenty leftover from a previous "sponsor" and a worn set of poly needing replacement...

(Just a note that this was my personal setup. That friend had requested for something else to be paired with fishing line.)

Playtest:
- Just by tugging the mains aside and releasing it, I could see how fast and easy the snapback was. 
- On court, it did not disappoint. The spin was fantastic and the strings always remained straight.
- The feel was actually identical to a freshly strung gut/poly stringjob - soft, comfortable, powerful, controlled and spinny. Perhaps a little softer since there was no poly.
- The differences was there was zero break-in needed. 
- With poly, sometimes the first hits were a little tight and low-powered. Then it played better after an hour. But since fishing line behaved more like a nylon, there was much more liveliness to it.
- I would describe the fishing cross string to have "the comfort of syn gut with the slickness of poly".
- Another distinction was the consistency of tension holding. After two hours, it seemed to hold up much better than poly. 
- Among all the natural gut combinations I have tried, I have no hesitations ranking this as the best for spin, comfort, power and control. The incredible slickness of the fishing line simply allowed much more free sliding between gut/fish and even fish/fish.
- The paramount task now, would be to hunt down my fishing line sponsor and find out which brand and specs of the fishing line he passed to me previously!
- The next few sessions would be interesting.