Endless vs Flemish for Traditional Bows

[Shakes.602]

What is YOUR Preference for Your Traditional Bows? ALL Kinds!!

[Shakes.602]

Just Out of Curiosity....Oh Yeah, i forgot, and Which String for Which Bow??

[bigbadjon]

I always shoot flemish, just cause I like the look. I can't tell the difference shooting either though.

[robtattoo]

There's no option for 'Don't Care'

I trully don't care, one way or t'other. There's no difference I can see/feel/hear between endless or flemish. They both work for either longbow or recurve.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

flemish.. Because it sounds Traditional

[JRY309]

I shoot mainly flemish on all my longbows,but shoot an endless on my Harrison HSS.They are easy to make sitting and watching TV.I do like endless dacron on my older recurves.I do make all my strings including the endless strings.

[Chris Shelton]

Well they both have there pros and cons.  I love my flemish strings for the simple fact that they are adjustable.  But on the flip side sometimes when unstrung they can untwist, but that is a easily fixed problem, just use a string keeper or loop it over the bow.

Endless strings cannot really be adjusted, but that is something I like about them, they will basically always stay the same!

[robtattoo]

Originally posted by Chris Shelton: Well they both have there pros and cons.  I love my flemish strings for the simple fact that they are adjustable.  But on the flip side sometimes when unstrung they can untwist, but that is a easily fixed problem, just use a string keeper or loop it over the bow.

Endless strings cannot really be adjusted, but that is something I like about them, they will basically always stay the same!

You can adjust an endless string just as easily as a flemish. You can twist them up & down in exactly the same way.

[LBR]

For me, I give a slight edge to flemish for adjustability and quietness.  Endless are easier to make the same from one maker to the next, and easier to be consistently the same with for some folks.

[LBR]

Almost forgot--there's gobs of fables floating around about both--I've even seen where warranties would be voided if you chose one over the other.  Go figure...

[James Wrenn]

Flemish because that is what I can make.  I also think they are stronger and since I shoot small strings that is a plus for me.I know they are quieter.   :D

[Spotted Quoll]

Black Swan used to reccomend endless strings in non stretch modern material. I use flemish on my Back Swans and they shoot fine...

On the other hand, I have a 86lb Kramer HH style longbow and it loves a well made flemish style dacron over the endless fastflite string it came with...

[COMPOUNDLESS IN CONCRETE]

I have an endless on mine but it came with the bow.  It must have been cheap material because it stretched like it was made out of the waist band of an old pair of underwear.  It stretched so much that when I twist it up to my 8" desired brace height, it wants to start twisting back at the looped ends.  So I have a flemish string that should be coming in the mail today made of low creep fast flight material. I bought it from a string maker with a lot of years experience and a lot of postive feedback about his quality.

[David Mitchell]

For accuracy, which do the Olympic shooters choose?  Endless, I think just about exclusively.  Maybe there is an accuracy difference that I cannot shoot well enough to see.  I'm sure they try to maximize accuracy as they are not into looking trad but rather shooting their best. That said, I love flemish twist....just 'cause  

[LBR]

Consistency is why Olympic shooters choose endless.  There's less room for error, and easier to get the same string from different makers, although 99.999% of us will never be able to shoot the difference (myself included).

[Mack_S]

I prefer the Flemish for the simple reason that I make my own.

Otherwise it doesn't matter to me.  I've shot both and haven't noticed a difference.

-Mack

[eric-thor]

flemish are just too cool to shoot anything else. ive found no reason to shoot anything else

[Eugene Slagle]

I shoot Flemish Twist, mostly because I make my own & haven't gotten my lazy butt to make a endless loop jig yet.

[mnbwhtr]

Endless for simplicity. Flemish are always getting longer and longer.

[LBR]

Properly made, flemish will have more initial stretch but once shot in they will be the same.