How to Make a Tillering String for Bow Making 

All ya need to know re tillering string. Including the all-important guidance re how long to set your tillering string for long-string tillering. New bow builders really need to know about how long to set long string at. Also, it's great that ya carefully explain the "whys" of your recommends. ALSO, wrapping each bundle around something looks to be big help in keeping them untwisted. Thanks!!

Very useful information and beautiful nature shots .

Really awesome video, very helpful. I am attempting my first bow soon. Thank you.

Excellent! You should make a series on tillering (all kinds, and all steps), that would be very nice and very useful. Thanks for sharing.

Very informational.

i only subed today but i love youre content and i love this place

In an earlier video you mentioned a beeswax, pine tar and olive oil mixture you put on drawknife handles. Do you have a video describing the mixing of such? I'm looking for a source of pine tar too.

Hi Dan, Do you ever make three ply bowstrings?

Hello, could you perhaps record a more detailed video about your table where you create bows? I'm interested in the dimensions and how the mechanism is made.

I have a question, i got a 1.3-1.5 meter piece of cherry. Thickest end around 10 cm and the other to 8 cm. And its alreadly slightly evenly curved. Do i need to bend it back to straight or keep it like that?

Can i make arrow shafts out of chinaberry wood?

i wish you'd have shown all that first twisting and counter twisting without your chuff8ng hands in the way lol

horrible missed half the video because of frogs coming up and cant see what you do from your angle

Okay a true amature here who just likes bow but know nothing about them, is there anyone who'll help me make a bow( I live in a city where there's not a lot of trees but I want to make one from scratch instead of buying it)

That’s great !!!! No longer need to buy !!! Very well explained. Thanks

That cardboard wrapping idea is such a handy tip. Newbies need to do that! I’ve had to start again so many times from a big knot and tangle down the bottom of the loose ends from untwisting them soo many times

Wow! I've watched other tillering process that were good, but you have opened up a different way of looking at the tillering process...especially the concept when you first start out with a different perspective of how the back twist is used and then rolling into a bundle to help from getting twisted and tangled. Such a great video! Thanks!

Dan, Just tie a bowline knot for your top loop. If you tie it correctly- very easy- it will never let go!! Quicker and much easier!! Keep up the good work.

😄👍 Serendipity, I'm tillering 2 bows currently, with a dismantled 3-ply jute rope. Nice beasties.

You explain stuff so well wish this vid had been around when I irst started making strings

Hey Dan! Could I make a suggestion for a video? I'm really really enjoying all your content, absolutely chewing it all up. But while I notice that there's plenty of advice for tillering, I think perhaps you forget that your eye has a lot more experience than mine, and many other viewers. I'd like to ask you to put together perhaps some kind of tillering mega compilation - or something of that sort. A kind of "Look at this tiller - can you see the problem? Here's the problem." because as you've said in many videos, you just need to remove wood from areas that don't bend enough. It would just be GREAT to see more tillering, perhaps a little more explanation on how profile affects tiller, and such. Thanks for any time you take to read, or reply!

Thank you so much for this video. It helped me a lot when using my first tillering rope. What kind of wax do you use? If it's homemade, could you tell me how you made it? Thank you so much!

I have some 1000lb dynema cord, is there a reason not to use it as a tillering string?

Great video as always, but I have to ask. Is it just a thing bowyers do adding videos of animals at random points in the film? It seems a lot of bowyers do that. Just curious as I am tryina pick up bow making and if I make videos I wanna make certain I’m doing it correctly. Haha!

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Which wood is good for a good bow