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Originally Posted by King Custard  After having so much help from members on AI - I promised I'd 'put something back in' soon as I had something to give....'wait' someone's gonna say 'It's already on a thread somewhere.'
What the hell - it's a fantastic tip!
--Have you found your brace height?
--Do you have a string that looks like a dozen or so reealy long thin snakes enraptured in the mating ritual? Odd strands sticking up here and there - refusing to 'bed' together and form what looks like one long smooth knitting needle??
I don't!
Take a 12in or so strand of waxed bowstring material, wrap the middle of it 4 times around your bowstring while it's on the bow. Pull it tight - and finding the right angle to make it possible- Draw it slowly along the unserved portions of your string.
It's amazing ( but then little things amaze little minds).
It'll take off any excess wax (and weight), while compressing your strands together to make it thinner faster and less wind resistant. It'll cut through the air like a knife on release!
I just did with my new Angel Magesty string and almost halved it's diameter to leave a glossy shiny weather resistant bowstring - rather than what looks like an old anchor rope at a disused dock.
It also just brought my bare shafts and fletched shafts over an inch closer together at 16 m which must translate to at least a couple of ounces more thrust---for nothing!!!
Now to figure out why my bare shafts land on on a 50p piece and my fletched shafts spread across a fiver.!
Please don't laugh- Im still fairly new to all this tuning malarky  |
Yes, it's a good trick once you've waxed your string (synthetic wax and hand heat only on high-performance strigns of course) to polish it like this. Actually, I work the wax in with hand heat than polish off hte excess with a piece of clean serving material. I have TS-plus custom string/cables and they polish up to a really even texture this way, almost like melted wax in appearance. The strands seem to bed down and become much more even this way.
Actually, at the danger of being really sad, I find the best type of serving for this is the braided Halo 0.019, seems much better that my Diamondback for the purpose...
P.