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| Whenever the current one looks too worn out/unsafe |     | 38 | 77.55% |
| Once a year |    | 8 | 16.33% |
| Every change from indoor to outdoor, or outdoor to indoor |    | 2 | 4.08% |
| I try to keep up with the fashions in bowstring & serving colours for this month. |    | 1 | 2.04% |
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02-07-06, 08:33 AM
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 How often do you swap to a new string? This kind of follows on from the question about tuning. The question & answers say almost all of it, but I'd be interested to hear your reasons.
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02-07-06, 09:15 AM
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| Recurve, I change strings pehaps on an annual basis if I have had a full shooting calendar. Otherwise I go on the general look of it. Then I make another Compound, not had a full year yet it's looking good so I'll leave it. Longbow, hardly used it over the past 3yrs... nuff said I did vote once a year, but at the first sign of danger, need I say more?
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02-07-06, 10:51 AM
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| I think the "Whenever the current one looks too worn out/unsafe" sums it up perfectly for me
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02-07-06, 11:10 AM
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| i would normally change the bowstring as and when needed for safty reasons but i am looking at a nice blue one colour co ordination is key in the end isnt it 
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02-07-06, 06:14 PM
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| I love making strings so like to experiment and change regularly.
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02-07-06, 08:05 PM
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| I have 4 good strings at a time. All are fastflight from the same manufacturer and batch. I alternate each shoot, to save on wear and tear. 16 strand outdoor and 18 strand indoor |
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02-07-06, 08:10 PM
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| I make strings annually. Usually when the old one gets a bit ratty and dirty. no other reason really - I've never had a string break on me, or even lost a strand. I was wondering the other day, after removing a centre serving - the string was so round and smooth under the serving - wonder what would happen if we served the whole string then removed the serving - a very tightly bound and aerodynamic string??  |
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02-07-06, 08:13 PM
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| Whenever it gives up the ghost or starts looking bad. Last string dropped half an inch of brace height over 3 dozen - so I chucked it. (well, after finishing that day's shooting).
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02-07-06, 09:29 PM
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| one question lots of people on here seem to make their own strings how difficult/ complicated are they to make some of the guides i have found are a little sketchy sorry if this may be off topic
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02-07-06, 10:59 PM
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| currently i only have one shootable string... my old one broke, and my other one has too many strands. I only change when my other one looks unsafe. My last one went just suddenly went during a competition. Luckly it wasn't a really important competition, so i wasn't peanalised. I fired my last arrow of the comp and the string snapped, and i de-knocked an arrow and it was in ten. I'm going to have to go up to 16 stand because 14 strand fast flight isn't supposed to be used for 40lbs + recurve
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