FF strings

[daniel boon]

enyone shoot FF strings out of non FF bows?

[Stinger]

Only if they don't care about the bow tips coming apart and possibly causing an eye injury.  Bows made for FF strings have normally been built with FF in mind and have had the tips built up to handle FF.

[Rob DiStefano]

help me here - why would you even ask this question?

[Javi]

Not likely...

[bigbadjon]

Your non ff bow with nimble tips and a b-50 string is probably faster than a ff bow with beefy tips anyway. My advice is to just use the recommended material.

[JRY309]

I don't,the only bows I shoot dacron on are a couple of older vintage recurve.And I prefer to spin up an endless dacron string on them.

[TWarrows]

No..Why would you even try to break a bow????

[Knapper]

Maybe he just does not know or understand that fastflight can damage the bow.  Actually, I have shoot fast flight on self bows for years, are self bows  designed for fastflight?

Don't be so hard on him at least he asked before he tried it.

[AdamH]

Well Fellas, I personally have been told by I guarantee one of the Most Well Respected Bowyers in the business, he'd shoot a FF string off of ANY L/B out there if HE BUILT THE STRING, L/B only, and the string would definately be built with Padded Loops of B-50 ... Go Figure , huh ? Would "I" ... No ...

[LONGSTYKES]

I like all my pieces.

[KochNE]

I'm using a 12-strand FF string w/ loops padded to 18 strands.  On a paper-backed red oak board bow.  68" ntn, 52# @ 29".  Soaked tips in super glue prior to stringing.  2000+ shots later, still going strong, no worse for wear.  First 1200 shots or so were a 12 strand FF w/ no padding.

Edit:  I suppose my particular situation depends on how you'd define "Non-FF".  You could argue that the superglue makes it a "FF safe" bow...  As for vintage glass/ lam bows that I didn't make myself...I'd likely be too scared to risk de-laminating a piece of history.

[daniel boon]

hey boys-  before you all get on your high horses ,i am only asking a question. just something that i wondered about.i have read in some of the threads on Tradgang that some do use  FF on non FF bows . So i thought that i would ask   THAT IS WHAT THIS FORUM IS FOR   (or so i thought)      

[Bighornangler]

I see no reason why you can't use FF strings on all wood bows if you use Micarta or Cape Buffalo Horn for the tips. Stim Wilcox does and I would think that with all of his experience, he would know what he is talking about. I have used Micarta and deer horn on some of my wood bows with no problems to date. I would not use FF strings on any of the older vintage recurves etc. because they were not made for FF.

[Rob DiStefano]

Originally posted by Knapper:
Maybe he just does not know or understand that fastflight can damage the bow.  Actually, I have shoot fast flight on self bows for years, are self bows  designed for fastflight?

Don't be so hard on him at least he asked before he tried it.

my question was as valid as his.  i need to understand where he's coming from, as his question may have been shy of his intent.  

self bows are another matter when it comes to hmpe fiber strings.  they're fine, for the very most part.

and now that he fully explained his intentions, your first sentence gave him his answer.

[daniel boon]

Thanks to everybody that gave me their ANSWERS AND OPINIONS, cheers