serving tutorial

[recurvericky]

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?

[ishiwannabe]

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.

[foxchef]

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

[Goose]

Try this link.

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

Goose

[recurvericky]

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

[recurvericky]

ttt

[Overspined]

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

[recurvericky]

Thanks for the info

[lowell]

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.    

[Charlie Lamb]

I did this nocking point tutorial a while back. It should help with getting the serving started and finished.
  Nocking point tutorial

[Flints]

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.