Shuttle & Smash started as a stringing bench in a garage, run by two league players who were tired of buying frames online by their paint job and guessing at the specs. If a shop was going to sell a racket, we thought, it should be able to tell you exactly what it weighs and where it balances.
So that is what we do. Every frame in the rack is weighed, its balance point measured, and its flex logged before it earns a spot. We only stock what we would put in our own bags — from the forgiving Nanoflare to the unforgiving 100ZZ — and we write the numbers down so you can choose like an engineer, not a shopper.
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Reference — How a shuttle is tuned
Anatomy of a tuned shuttle.
The frame gets the attention, but the shuttle is where a match is really calibrated. Here is what we check.
Feathers16 · left-wing gooseSorted by curvature so the skirt spins true and the flight stays straight.
Grain weight4.74–5.50 gThe band a shuttle must fall in. We weigh every dozen and pair by tenths of a gram.
Tip / cork25mm · layered corkA composite base sets rebound off the strings without splitting on a clean smash.
Speed number76 · mediumChosen for hall temperature and altitude — a warm gym needs a slower feather.
Skirt spread64–68mmThe cone diameter at the base. Too wide drags; too narrow flies long.