After market strings?

[jkm97]

What are some good string options for a Black Widow PSA? Should I just order one from Widow, or are after market strings better? Coming from the compound world, we usually replaced factory strings, but not sure with stick bows....

[Jasper2]

The new widow that a buddy of mine bought came with a factory string made of D97 with 2 sets of their spider silencers installed. While it was a well made string, it was more strands than necessary and was crazy loud without both sets of those silencers which is overkill and unnecessary IMO.  I believe that you would benefit greatly from a smaller diameter string, made of a different material, from a competent string maker.....and there are many on this site.  Champion Custom, SBD, and Oliverstacy just to name a few.

Take care,
Jason

[Gdpolk]

I've been very pleased with Silent But Deadly strings.  I've had strings from 5-6 makers now and won't be shopping for another vendor after trying Pierre's strings.  

My SBD string made me buy new arrows as it weakened the spines of my existing arrows, which was a little expensive so I just waited to install it when I needed a new batch of arrows anyway.  What I really like about it though is that it seems more quiet than the others and the serving seems to wear well.  I've had other strings that sounded like a piano or had the serving wear down very quickly.  These aren't problems for me with my SBD string and that is what really sold me on them.  The minor performance boost in speed was just a bonus.

[jkm97]

How do I contact SBD?

[gunfixrjoe]

Rick ****** makes some fine strings!

[gunfixrjoe]

Why was the last name censored on my last post?

[bowhuntingrn]

gunfixrjoe...probably because they / he is not a sponsor here...you can however PM the OP with the info if you want and it shouldn't be censored. PM to jkm97

[smokin joe]

SBD is a sponsor here.

I have SBD strings on all of my fastflight recurves.

I highly recommend the 6-strand ULTRA string from SBD. The performance is incredible. My recurve with 53# limbs and SBD string shoots faster than it did with 63# limbs and conventional string. I am impressed by that kind of performance.

[jkm97]

Sounds impressive for sure...

[petalumapete]

I've shot a lot of different strings, most mentioned earlier. Ricks strings are the best I've found. There is extremely little stretch which is important to me he's a great guy to deal with and I don't have to wait a month or so for my delivery.
Very happy with my service. It's best to call him the first time you order. The way he measures strings is different. But very precise.

I get a kick out of the censorship on the last name. It's like the name that cannot be said hahaha

[Eric Sprick]

Originally posted by jkm97:
How do I contact SBD?

http://www.sbdbowstrings.com/

Great strings, did wonders for the PCH I had.  Have made my Mohawks virtually silent.

Eric

[thunder1]

SBD

[Sirius Black]

Lefties R Us also makes great strings. They are a sponsor here.

[finkm1]

I had Allen Shafer from lefties are us make me a string for my PSA this last march. String is ultracam and I had him put 4 small cat whisker type silencers on. Im very happy with it and I had the string in a couple of days. Allen is a great guy to deal with.

[spotteddog]

Lefties r Us strings are as good as the come with a fast turnaround.

[Thunyor]

Been shooting my new SBD string about a week and love it

[Stump73]

SBD

[Bjorn]

Aftermarket is the only way to go. Chad at Champion and SBD.

[Fletcher]

Don't forget Oliverstacey.  Most of the sponsor stringmakers have posts in the sponsor classifieds.  You will be impressed with the strings from any of them.

[Nativestranger]

I have been shooting a 12 strand XS2 string from Lefties R Us. Works great on my recurve. Avoid going too low in strand count though. 8 strand of D10 creeps quite a bit on my 45# bow but it could be the high temperatures here.