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July 24, 2024 2 min read

Stencilling Your Badminton Racquet's Strings is EASY!

Check out this video to see how:

Here's the step-by-step breakdown in writing!

Tips to stencil your badminton racquet strings

The 4 things that you’ll need to stencil your racket are…

  1. A badminton racquet WITH STRINGS!
  2. A stencil
  3. Stencil ink
  4. Something to cover the floor table so you don’t stain it
  5. And if you’re clumsy, maybe some gloves! 

Steps

Step 1: Place the racket on top of the paper or whatever you’re using to protect the floor or table you’re working on

Step 2: place the stencil the right side up as indicated by the word TOP. it should fit perfectly! You can tape it here if you like, or just hold it securely with your fingers

Step 3: Give the ink bottle a good shake

Step 4: Now to apply the ink onto the strings using a brushing motion

Step 5: Switch to the other side and repeat

Step 6: Allow to dry and VOILA! You now have a stencilled racket

Volant badminton racket stencil

For those of you who don’t want to do this yourself, know that the majority of stringing services will stencil the racket for you and you can ask them to do it the next time you need your strings strung - just pass them the stencil that you got with your racket!

But for those of you who are trying this at home, we hope you have fun, and don’t create too much of a mess!

Did you know that we offer FREE customised stringing for our S1 Racket orders (Flight S1, Havoc S1, Rogue S1)? EXPLORE THE RANGE!

We'd love to hear your comments, suggestions, tips and tricks so please feel free to comment below. If you would like us to write about something in particular, please let us know!

Jeffrey Tho
Jeffrey Tho

Jeff is an ex-international badminton player who represented Australia at the Commonwealth Games (twice as a player & once as a coach), World Championships, All England Championships and multiple Thomas and Sudirman Cups. He was the Australian National Coach, Senior State Head Coach and is the co-founder of Volant badminton & The Badminton Podcast. Jeff is extremely passionate about building the worldwide badminton community & showing the world how incredible our sport really is.


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