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Offline mrbxzzz

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Heavy bow string material
« on: November 24, 2018, 03:46:11 PM »
Hi everyone I'm wondering what string materials you self bow / laminate board bowyers  use with draw weight of +60#

I've been using Dacron B50,  low stretch linen and a combination of both with some decent results

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Re: Heavy bow string material
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2018, 04:38:01 PM »
I use only B50 or B55 for selfbows and all wood lam bows but lots of guys use the different FF types of strings. I don't know much about them so dare not suggest any specific string material.
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Re: Heavy bow string material
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2018, 04:52:02 PM »
B 50 or 55. 

60# isn't heavy -- I have several friends who are shooting nearly double that weight in their handmade wood-horn-sinew composite bows -- Turkish, Mongol and  Chinese replicas.
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Re: Heavy bow string material
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2018, 10:32:31 AM »
I use fast flight, 6 to 8 strings with padded loops and double served.  I use overlays on the tips. 
Here's strengths of most common materials:
- B50  50#/strand
-Fast Flight 100#/strand
- D97 120#/ strand

You can see that even using B50 and a 60+ lb bow you don't need a ridiculous amount of strands. 
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