If i could like this tenfold i would do so! I usually am not a very handy one but i was able to make my own string first time due to this awesome tutorial. You are the Man clay. Cheers!
i always wondered how to turn my reverse strings into a double looped bowstring. what a simple step I never realized. Something so simple can be so life changing…Thank you so much good sir!
The way you do this is so much more simple and practical than a lot of other methods I've seen here on RU-vid. A lot of them have a bunch of measuring and counting twists and just a bunch of extra stuff that made the process seem complicated to me. This video made it clear to me. Thanks for the great content!
Kay so after a dreadful two days of trying I was not only able to salvage the string from the first on that I thought was no good but turned around and made another, I truly was humbled by this experience, thankyou for this video, this knowledge will stay with me now, I had to break quite a few eggs, but I got two omelets out of it
I just made my first ever string for my Fred bear recurve watching your video! Thanks for such a great video, I also have some dried staves ordered to try my first shot at making a whole bow using your videos, hopefully it’ll work out for me just as well
Thanks Clay, with your channel I learned so much! I am at the tillering process, I needed a string and boom I find your video! Getting ready to hunt wild turkey soon, I am so stoked haha!
Awesome! I’m filing this away for down the road when I begin to make my own strings! I am hoping to one day get into self bows. I plan on cutting a few staves this spring and putting them up to season while I learn as much as I can with me factory made bow this year. Next year I hope to make my first bow. However I will attempt my first string this year. Thanks for the help and the inspiration.
Hi Clay. I'm about to take some Rowan to make a stave with my son to make a simple selfbow and I had been thinking forward to stringmaking so this is really timely, thanks. Obviously there's craft and learning here but at least I understand all the steps involved in terms of weaving lines for integrity under extreme tension. I had wondered how this feat was achieved and I love the simple but effective tying innovations that have evolved to solve these problems. Thanks for sharing!
Keep up the good work, you simplify things that would be complicated with worse videography, your camera angles and lighting are great, you clearly explain what your doing effectively.
Thanks Clay. I've learned alot through your videos, and I've been wanting to know more on how to make a flemish string. I'll start practicing your technique this weekend.
Awesome video! I just made strings for both of my bows following your tutorial. They were sized perfectly, I got them strung up now and will find out in the morning if my loops hold lol
Great video and very informative, but once again I was admiring the bow. Reflexed and the limbs arrow straight, not a bit of deflex. Good job on the string, amazing job on the bow.
Thanks for the great video. I’ve made my own strings , both Flemish twist and with a adjustable jig that I. made. Your method surpasses mine. When stringing a bow like you did be very careful with a recurved tip that your hand does not slip Off limb it can whip back and hit you in your eye . I’ve smacked myself before , so I’ve got in the habit of turning my head Away and feeling the string go into your limb grooves. 👀😅
I have found that you don't need to cut off the serving tool in order to back wrap the serving at the end. I just make a larger loop and then use the serving tool to wrap back the serving for the tie off then pull the string through so I don't have any waste of that wonderfully expensive serving material. Hope that makes sense but great video Clay.
This was a very straightforward and simple yet detailed tutorial. Thanks for posting! BTW, that knot you showed to begin the timber hitch isn't a square knot, but an overhand knot twisted into a half hitch. Two overhand knots would make a square knot (or granny knot, depending on how you lay the second knot). Also, what you make on the bottom end appears to be an eye splice, but I'm not 100% sure. I've made a few eye splices for sailboat lines, but that's done with three strand rope, not two, so there may be another term for what you show here. Neither of those points of terminology detract at all from how good your demonstration is, though. Keep up the great work!
File the nail heads if they're small and or sharp btw. I've sliced my hand open so many times making bowstrings with nails I never would have thought would have been sharp enough. When you're rushing and moving with haste you'd be surprised how hard you can knock your flesh apart.
I've got round head nails from the local hardware store for just cents more than regular ones, maybe get those. They also look prettier, if that's a consideration for you.
Clay, how would you strengthen the other end when you make that temporary square knot? could we make a make on the centre of the loop, untie this portion of the loop and add strengthening pieces? thanks
I have a massive amount of 80lb braided fishing line and recently had a bow string fail, I can't help but wonder if that would work to make a bowstring
That was fascinating! I have been building selfbows for a few years but have never learned to make a string. Now I have a very good understanding of it, thank you! Great channel!
I am watching this because someone sent me a tik tok of someone making a micro bow out of two dental flossers, and it bothered me they used a rubber band, so now I have to do it with a proper bow string...
I'm crazy late to the archery party here but how did you twist the main body of the string that's in between the loops. Looks like it's just twisted a handful of times but didn't catch how you did it or what direction.
Great video thanks . just one point , the serving should be served the opposite way to the twist of the string I think. Please correct me If I'm wrong .
Hi Clay….Just to confirm - The reinforcement of the short strands was only done for the first knock and NOT for the one you twisted back in after determining your length?
Out of curiosity, is this method better than the previous video you did showing a fully twisted string (meaning it's fully Flemish twisted from nock to nock)? There's only a few videos showing the other method so I thought I'd ask. Thanks!
So interesting! I guess with some practice one gets to be skillful in making bow strings. T,was the same when I started stringing tennis racquets some time ago. What determines how many strands you put on a bow string? The poundage? Thanks for your videos. Good teacher. I know: I used to teach for 35 years..(M.G., Quebec, Canada)
Brilliant, I am just waiting for some D97 from 3rivers to make a string for my first selfbow. Just some tidy up to do. Question: You only add padding to one loop or could you untwist and add padding for the second loop as well?
@@clayhayeshunter Thanks. This method of determining the string length is especially valuable for someone who might obtain an old bow without a string on it...
Great video! I've watched it a few times and will need to watch a few more times yet to get it down but thanks for videos like this! What string material do you like best for a longbow? D97?
