Where to get string material?

[Soilarch]

I want to make my own strings.  Where do you guys get your material from?

Is there a place to get BCY fivers?  3 Rivers and Kustom King and Cabelas only have Brownells...and then usually only TS-1 Plus, "flastflight", or Dacron.

Also, I know different diameter and weights make this hard to answer but I figure I need 50-60' of material for each of my strings...so roughly how many strings does a ~$35 roll make?

[ishiwannabe]

Im pretty sure I saw BCY in Lost Nation's catalog...

[mparks]

Good call Ishi.  I've got the Lost Nation catalog in front of me and it shows B-500, BCY, Dynaflight 97.  Nylon and Halo serving material.

[Grey Taylor]

I get my BCY materials from Chad at recurves.com.

Guy

[Lefty]

You can order direct from the bcyfibers, just give them a call.  I have in the past and they only charged me actually shipping even for small orders.

[dakota tim]

The Nocking Point

[buckracks7]

Like Lefty said, you can order direct. You will get the maximum choices that way, and they are good to deal with.

[frank bullitt]

Soilarch, Hello, like said, you can order direct, and they do sell 1/8 lb spools. You might also ask, someone might have some leftover to try. Possible trade?

  I just finished doing 30 strings for 58" recurve, f.f. 18 strand, black and red ,1/4 lb spools. 12 strands of black, 6 of red. No black left, but enough red to probably do about 12 more strings. I hate 3 ply strings!

 Hope this helps! If you have any questions about strings, pm me. Good shootin Steve

[Soilarch]

Thank you guys.  Dang....30 12-strand strings for a 58" is better than I hoped for.

[LBR]

BCY asked me to keep my dealer orders to a minimum of.....around $100, I think.  No problem when I'm ordering for myself, but most folks don't care to order all that much.  I don't mind ordering for folks if you meet the minimum, but you can order it just as easily yourself from  www.bcyfibers.com  .

I kept up with how many strings I got once when making a bunch for A&H.  12 strand strings, from 59" to 63", I got 80 strings from a 1# spool of Dynaflight '97 (padded the loops with dacron).  The same color (black) was used for both bundles.

Chad

[UKarcher]

BCY will accept orders of $25.00 minimum. They are good people to deal with, and the choice of color is excellent. I only use B500 but they stock all the fancy FF materials too.

[LBR]

I figured they had a minimum for retail orders, just didn't know how much.  I was referring to dealer orders.

Chad