Dunlop S-Gut 17 vs Gosen OG Sheep Micro 18

Measured, side by side

Bars are percentile against all 791 strings, and the marked side is the one that measures better, which is not always the one you want. A firmer bed is worse for your elbow and better for your control, and no measurement knows which of those you came for.

Which one wins, by problem

Each string's standing on the site's rankings, out of every measured string in the database. This is where a comparison stops being arithmetic and starts being a decision.

• More spin and shape

  S-Gut 17646th

  OG Sheep Micro 18668th

• Easier on my arm

  S-Gut 17190th

  OG Sheep Micro 18146th

• More control, less launch

  S-Gut 17645th

  OG Sheep Micro 18690th

• More power and depth

  S-Gut 17111th

  OG Sheep Micro 1865th

• Plays the same for longer

  S-Gut 17167th

  OG Sheep Micro 18160th

• Lasts longer before it breaks

  S-Gut 17704th

  OG Sheep Micro 18715th

• Best feel and touch

  S-Gut 17131st

  OG Sheep Micro 1881st

Swapping between them: what tension?

Bed stiffness is published at one reference tension, so the only honest conversion is to scale it. These are starting points from 52 lb, not prescriptions. The calculator takes your own tension.

Hybrid: what if you used both?

Estimated, not measured. No hybrid combination has been tested as a bed. These figures are the two strings' own lab measurements weighted by how much of the bed each one actually is. Treat them as a guide to which way a pairing moves, never as lab data.

Open this in the hybrid builder

Which goes dead first?

Estimated from tension loss, which is the only thing the database measures about ageing. This is when the bed stops playing the way you strung it, not when the string breaks.

Both strings in full

Add a third string S-Gut 17 in full OG Sheep Micro 18 in full