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Title: serving tutorial
Post by: recurvericky on July 28, 2008, 08:50:00 PM

I have searched this site and have not been able to locate a "How to thread" on serving a bow string. Is there one, if not can someone direct me to one on the web?

Title: Re: serving tutorial
Post by: ishiwannabe on July 28, 2008, 09:19:00 PM

I googled it a few years ago and found a decent set of instructions and pics that were easy to follow. No, I cant remember what site specifically. It is rather easy once ya do it a few times....hope this helps.

Title: Re: serving tutorial
Post by: foxchef on July 28, 2008, 09:25:00 PM

3rivers has a clip on their website and I think Youtube has some vids too.

Title: Re: serving tutorial
Post by: Goose on July 28, 2008, 09:47:00 PM

Try this link.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT5dmmTbeo0

Goose

Title: Re: serving tutorial
Post by: recurvericky on July 28, 2008, 09:52:00 PM

I watched this several times, my confusion on this is how does he start wrapping the serving.

Title: Re: serving tutorial
Post by: recurvericky on July 28, 2008, 10:07:00 PM

ttt

Title: Re: serving tutorial
Post by: Overspined on July 28, 2008, 10:56:00 PM

ok, so to start: just take your nocking tool and make sure your serving will start below where it clips onto your string. then just pull a little extra from the spool and pinch the serving so that a 3" tag is aligned with the string and pointing to the top of the bow. just start about 2 or 3 wraps with your fingers over the string and the tag. so basically just overwrap itself. then pull the tag a touch to tighten. then just wrap with the tool over the string and tag towards the top of bow and trim the tag when you have overwrapped it by about 2" or a bit less. doesn't really matter. at the top, just take a piece of the serving material and make a loop you can wrap over the same way and then cut the main thread, place tag through the loop, then pull the loose ends to pull the tag of the main thread under the wrap (maybe 1" or so). cut and burn the tag....done

Title: Re: serving tutorial
Post by: recurvericky on July 28, 2008, 11:47:00 PM

Thanks for the info

Title: Re: serving tutorial
Post by: lowell on July 29, 2008, 11:10:00 AM

A freind that runs a bow shop showed me a little trick to pull the tag through easier.

Instead of just making a loop.... make the loop and put another thickness of the material under the serving then.... pull just that one thickness through first then you will have a bigger area to pull the loop and tag through.     :archer:

Title: Re: serving tutorial
Post by: Charlie Lamb on July 29, 2008, 12:32:00 PM

I did this nocking point tutorial a while back. It should help with getting the serving started and finished.
   Nocking point tutorial (http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=000078)

Title: Re: serving tutorial
Post by: Flints on July 29, 2008, 01:14:00 PM

http://www.texasarchery.org/Documents/DiStefanoStrings/serving.html

 http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/archery/faq/serving.html

 http://domino.htcomp.net/bhn/Columnists.nsf/d731dec9a617821886256590000646df/c2df994b307ddea686256e530080aa4d?OpenDocument  
Hope these help.