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Klip Legend 16 Uncoated vs Wilson Natural Gut 17

Natural Gut 17 leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Natural Gut 17 is 8 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Klip

Legend 16 Uncoated

Gut · 16 ga

Wilson

Natural Gut 17

Gut · 17 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
1012nd pct
810th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
154th pct
155th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
9699th pct
9598th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
1.20th pct
2.23rd pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.3708th pct
0.38616th pct
Snapback lower = strings slide and snap back
0.298100th pct
0.17396th pct

Bars are percentile against all 788 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.

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.

Coming from Legend 16 Uncoated at 52 lb

String Natural Gut 17 at 70.0 lb 31.8 kg

Clamped — the proportional answer was 85.5 lb, outside what most frames are rated for. These two are too far apart in stiffness to match by tension alone.

Coming from Natural Gut 17 at 52 lb

String Legend 16 Uncoated at 30.0 lb 13.6 kg

Clamped — the proportional answer was 5.3 lb, outside what most frames are rated for.

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.

Legend 16 Uncoated mains / Natural Gut 17 crosses

Stiffness1st pct · 1 measured
Tension loss5th pct · 1 measured
Energy return98th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential0th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite9th pct · 1 measured
Snapback100th pct · 1 measured

Natural Gut 17 mains / Legend 16 Uncoated crosses

Stiffness1st pct · 1 measured
Tension loss5th pct · 1 measured
Energy return98th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential2nd pct · 1 measured
Ball bite14th pct · 1 measured
Snapback98th pct · 1 measured

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.

Legend 16 Uncoated

~39 hours of play

Natural Gut 17

~38 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugeStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFSnap COF
Klip Legend 16 Uncoated Gut1610115961.20.3700.298
Wilson Natural Gut 17 Gut178115952.20.3860.173

Add a third string Legend 16 Uncoated in full Natural Gut 17 in full