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Originally Posted by TJ Mason Do you know what material your current string is?
For wooden bows, it's best to use only Dacron. 12 strands is usual for this material, varying to 10 strands for lighter bows and 14 strands for stronger bows. |
That's a matter for debate. I always used to be of the opinion that dacron was best for wooden bows, until talking to a bowyer (I can't remember who) he pointed out that hemp has very little stretch, and he would only use fastflite. His reasoning was that the stretch in dacron shook the bow as it stretched and recoiled which did more damage than the single sharp shock of fastflite. When I got my osage bow from Pip Bickerstaffe he supplied it with a fastflite string. My lemomwood/hickory from Ron Palmer and my self yew from Don Adams both had dacron. The Lemonwood and Osage are going strong, the Yew snapped at the lower nock.
My take on it, stay with the string material that the bowyer recomends.
Daniel