You can get 100 ft. of the mule from Amazon for 17 bucks.
1/2" steel rod, get the 20 ft from some steel supply, should be less than 20 bucks, I bought three 36" from tractor supply but should have bought the 20 ft. my bad.
I like the topless form for long bows , R/D and working recurves.
I have a short 50" static recurve that is hard to get good results but I worked out the bugs.
This short Korea bow is 50" (not the static I was talking about) has 14" of reflex so the 2 piece form would not work in my hot box, so the topless worked fine. This is the form, and the first time I did a topless form.