Bow string twist

[snowplow]

That other post got me thinking about a question I had a while ago. I have played with flemish twist strings a little, mostly on my kids bows.

The story starts when I received my SBD string from Pierre. I immediately noticed that the middle seemed normal, but the outer thirds looked beautiful and had a nice pronounced rope looking weave.

Fast forward to first string I made. Seemed normal in every way. Sweet, called it a win.

Then on second string for the girl I didn't roll it on my leg but hand twisted it the entire way. I ended up with that pretty rope weave all the way.

The rope weave isn't as round, simply because the pronounced valleys but I dont see how that's a problem really.

So what's the deal with this. Is one bad and one good? Just different styles or what?

[macbow]

There are many ways to accomplish the Flemmish splice.
I had never seen or heard of rolling on the leg.

The braided portion on mine are about the last 8 inches from the loops.

Are you saying your second one is braided the entire length?

[LBR]

The one you hand-twisted all the way is probably going to settle in a lot more.  Other than that, I don't know of any disadvantages.

Chad

[snowplow]

Yep, simply because I am ignorant I braided it the whole way. I ended up using a few more inches of string than I intended too because of it. But it's the prettiest little string I ever saw lol.