Hi everybody, i have been on the periphery watching this community interact for a while now - 1st post. Jack i am with you in the two pocket camp. I was visiting a friend who builds knives in his shop about twenty years ago. somehow the topic of stringers came up and the next thing i know he had whipped up a simple stringer for me and another friend with a couple of leather scraps and a couple lengths of parachute cord. I have been using that stringer since. a few years later i had a custom "Trails End" recurve made for me and that came with a pocket & block stringer. I can make the pocket & block work but feel the whole stinging process takes more effort and is less satisfying. The pocket & block stringer was misplaced sometime ago but i know right where my double pocket stringer is. I do think there is some validity to Urban Bob's post about the bow's well being and the difference in where the stress load to the tip is, but we are talking about the force to string and unstring the bow. And, a fraction of a inch lower that bow tip can support what ever fulldraw may be. There must be an engineer out there with a better understanding?
Topic: Stringer question (Read 613 times)
