Making a Braided Flemish Twist Bow String

Making a braided Flemish Twist bowstring from Dacron B-50, for use on a wooden selfbow made from vertical bamboo floorboards.
See my other video for Serving the string.

Informally filmed and roughly edited, the content is more important than the style :-)

Comments and questions welcome, I'm not the instructor but will attempt to answer any questions you may have. Comments from idiots will be removed.

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[nephildevil]

can u use this for a compound too?

[Mububban23]

@nephildevil I would guess not (and this is only guessing). Compounds are far more efficient, so Dacron with its stretchy nature would probably be no good. The braided nature of the string might not like going through rollers. I imagine they'd also be under far more stress than a longbow string so my best guess is no.

I'm sure Youtube has some entries if you search for "compound bow string" though. Or you could just ditch the training wheels altogether :-D

Good luck!

[tao2110]

waht kind of string do you use?, is Flemish the name of string?, someone help me. im makin a bow an need some help woth the string. Thanks

[Mububban23]

@tao2110 "Flemish" is the style name.

The material I've used is called Dacron B-50 as it has some stretch in it and some believe that flexibility helps a wooden bow survive a bit longer due to less stress being placed on the timber. Dacron comes in all colours of the rainbow.

Others use Fastflight which has zero stretch in it, that gives better cast and extra distance, some swear it causes no problems for longevity, some prefer noy to use it so it's personal preference really :-)

[docmann2001]

Excellent video. Good instruction. My sound silly, but I'm glad to see someone using same-color string for both strands. For some reason, everybody feels that the strings must be different colors. Put my first bow string together from this video. No problems.

Thanks.

[Mububban23]

@docmann2001 Glad to have helped! I find that kids like the 2 coloured strings, but for my adult bows I tend to use black unless asked.

Although I suppose for the purposes of a demo, two different colours might make it easier for some to see.

[nenadracer92]

what's the lenght of the string for the 63 inches bow? and what are the proportions of that shape that you use for string? thank :)

[turulkakas]

Köszönöm , megtanultam

[nephildevil]

@Mububban23 i'm pretty sure my string is made of dacron, what goes tru the wheels is a cable not the string. The string is attached to the cables. Too early to ditch training wheels :p but yeah i should get myself a recurve to go trad with sometime, but might get a decent compound 1st instead of the cheap one i got now.

[sunmaat]

Very impressed with the video. The idea of using the hand width as a guide to making the second loop is a very good idea and as for putting the bowstring on the bow, this makes excellence sense. Thanks!!!