New Tips

[copicasso]

I just bought a 57 kodiak and need to put new tips on. I just need to know where to buy the material.
Thanks,
Todd

[b.glass]

I have elk antler and phenolic I could send youe enough for your needs or you could look up Three Rivers Archery online. You could let me know the deminsions you think would be sufficient if you want.

[PEARL DRUMS]

Put some phenolic on it Todd, make it FF compatiable. I think FF strings are better for the bow myself, and the shooter!

[copicasso]

Appreciate the info guys!!
Thanks,
Todd

[DVSHUNTER]

I wouldn't put a ff string on a 57. Fix the tips but no ff. I heard the glue used then doesn't stand up to the stress. Just what I heard and that's good enough for me.

[PEARL DRUMS]

What type of stress does a FF string put on the actual bow itself, not the tips?

[Roy from Pa]

FF string doesn't stretch hardly at all, compared to B-50. But once B-50 is stretched out, it is  stable and much quieter than FF string is. FF stays stiff and when the bow is shot, and it brings the bow to a quick halt, where B-50 is a little more forgiving. Less shock on the limbs let's say.

[Art B]

I like to mix the two different string materials in the same string Roy. How's them apples!    

That way I've nothing to complain 'bout! Art

[Pat B]

My Treadway bow has a mixed bow string; so many strands of FF and so many of B50. I guess it doesn't have as much stretch as B-50 alone but is not as rough on the tips as FF can be plus it probably weighs less that just B-50.

[Roy from Pa]

Geeze Oh Man Art, now ya really confused The Pearly Drummer Boy:) I think FF is for Sissy Pants and Compounders. Real Trad guys use B-50:)

[PEARL DRUMS]

My question was rhetorical I guess. My feelings are a FF string is the best string for a bow providing the tips are strong enough for the smaller diameter. B-50 strings x-fer energy to the bow rather than the arrow because they dont settle down after release, they flop back and forth at brace. A FF string delivers considerably more power to the arrow and lessens stress on the bow because they come to abrupt stops. I have read this more than once from a few very experineced bowyers?

[Art B]

It's a new world Roy, a new world!

You should take note of what Pat and I wrote. It's for real and the coming thing.........Art

[Roy from Pa]

You guys are getten too high tech for me. What ever happened to horse hair strings, or squirrel hide strings? How about Hemp Strings?  

[Art B]

Horse hair and squirrel hide strings went out with the advent of the boo backed bows Roys. Reckon you're partly to blame    .......Art

[Art B]

Originally posted by Art B:
Horse hair and squirrel hide strings went out with the advent of the boo backed bows Roy. Reckon you're partly to blame     .......Art

[Roy from Pa]

I seen it the first time ole boy:)