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Title: High Performance string at Denton
Post by: MCS on July 14, 2014, 05:33:00 PM

Any word of venders with skinny strings at Denton?

Title: Re: High Performance string at Denton
Post by: wingnut on July 14, 2014, 05:50:00 PM

I tell ya a good string maker could do very well at Denton Hill.  I've had to buy strings a number of times and there is no body making strings there.

Mike

Title: Re: High Performance string at Denton
Post by: zipper bowss on July 14, 2014, 05:54:00 PM

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Originally posted by wingnut:
I tell ya a good string maker could do very well at Denton Hill.  I've had to buy strings a number of times and there is no body making strings there.

Mike

SSHHHHHH   :D
 
We always have a bunch of extra strings a long.

Title: Re: High Performance string at Denton
Post by: MCS on July 14, 2014, 05:56:00 PM

I think so too. I thought I herd of a reputable string maker being there this year. Well I hope so.

Title: Re: High Performance string at Denton
Post by: trx63 on July 14, 2014, 05:59:00 PM

I've bought strings from a guy that makes them there. I can not think of his name right now. He sets up on the outside row under his own tent.

Title: Re: High Performance string at Denton
Post by: MCS on July 14, 2014, 05:59:00 PM

Zipper Bows could I buy a string that's not attached to a bow?LOL.

Title: Re: High Performance string at Denton
Post by: LBR on July 14, 2014, 08:00:00 PM

I quit making strings at tournaments several years ago.  It's just not a money making venture--if you can pay for your spot and trip, you did well.  

That's besides gathering up and hauling your supplies, risking getting it all wet and/or dirty, being stuck in one spot the whole time you are there...

I was generally the first person at my spot in the morning and the last to leave, Thursday through Sunday.  My wife would get me something to eat and I kept bathroom breaks to a minimum.  If I was set up under lights, I might work until 9 or 10 pm and back at it before 7 am.

I could make up strings ahead of time, but with at least 4 different materials, three different servings, at least 3 different sizes of serving, over 30 colors of string material, longbows, recurves, low strand counts, 2-bundle, 3-bundle, endless, Flemish, etc. etc. etc. a fellow could have literally a thousand strings on hand and not have the one someone wanted.

It served it's purpose though--now I don't have to set up, I get plenty to do in my shop.

Anyhow...that's why you don't see a lot of string makers set up at tournaments--especially those of us who have a well established business and clientele.

I will be there with BCY though, and plenty of string making materials.

Chad

Title: Re: High Performance string at Denton
Post by: zipper bowss on July 14, 2014, 08:34:00 PM

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Originally posted by MCS:
Zipper Bows could I buy a string that's not attached to a bow?LOL.

:biglaugh:  Yes but a string is much prettier when attached to a new bow.   :D