Skinny string on old bow

[Jesse Peltan]

Has anyone here actually broken an old bow with a skinny string and padded loops? For example an old 60# bear bow and 6strand 8125 or d97 padded to 14strands at the loops. Also didn't a lot of the old bows have glass tip overlays? Wouldn't that make them fast flight compatable? I am asking because I have never heard of a case like this.

[JRY309]

I wouldn't shoot it on an older bow,you may get by for awhile.But I don't believe the glues used on older bows are as good as today.Plus I think older recurves just can't take the new string materials.For me I just used dacron on my older recurves.But I usally like an endless loop dacron on them.