I did not mean to alarm you with my Restring thread. My thing is for me that is an important issue. I do hunt out of state and in Canada so a CB being easy to service by me is important. My bro in law has the Cyclone and he wouldn't even look at the Excaibur saying it is ugly. he has had zero problems with his Cyclone. I have no idea how many times folks have had to have their CB restrung. Actually i do not know of anyone in our small area.