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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: bushboy on December 07, 2013, 05:48:16 pm

Title: fast flight plus?
Post by: bushboy on December 07, 2013, 05:48:16 pm

Just got a spool of ffp,how many strands should I use for a 65# recurve?I build strings simular to a flemish twist.thx's!

Title: Re: fast flight plus?
Post by: JackCrafty on December 07, 2013, 06:50:50 pm

For wood bows (self bows and laminates), most of us use about 12 to 14 strands although you can get by with a lot less and pad the loops and nocking area.  I think 8 strands would be the minimum.

Title: Re: fast flight plus?
Post by: SLIMBOB on December 07, 2013, 06:59:45 pm

45-55 I use 8 strands.  65 # recurve I'd probably go 10 if it were me.  Maybe 12.

Title: Re: fast flight plus?
Post by: huisme on December 07, 2013, 07:02:42 pm

I have one string built up to twelve strands at the end and just four strands between. It's a good string, but I don't plan on doing it again unless I get a request. I have it on a sixty five pound vine maple.

Title: Re: fast flight plus?
Post by: Weylin on December 07, 2013, 07:44:07 pm

Quote from: jackcrafty on December 07, 2013, 06:50:50 pm

For wood bows (self bows and laminates), most of us use about 12 to 14 strands although you can get by with a lot less and pad the loops and nocking area.  I think 8 strands would be the minimum.

What Patrick said.

Title: Re: fast flight plus?
Post by: bubby on December 08, 2013, 04:39:35 am

10 strands is plenty, two eight in pc of b-50 in each bundle on each end to pad the loops

Title: Re: fast flight plus?
Post by: Gordon on December 08, 2013, 11:18:02 am

I use 12 stands when I make a string out of FF+ and that is more than enough for a hunting weight bow.

Title: Re: fast flight plus?
Post by: Marc St Louis on December 08, 2013, 12:04:43 pm

I never use more than 8 strands unless it's a 100# plus warbow