B-50

[Don Case]

How much string is there in a 1/4 lb roll? For a 40-50 lb bow how many strings would you get,approx.
Thanks
Don

[kevinsmith5]

I've made 12 strings ranging from 5"2" to 6'9" and 14 strand to 18 strand have definitely not used half the spool.

[adb]

Depending on length of string of course, with 14-18 strand strings, you could easily get 30-40 strings out of a 1/4# spool. Maybe even more. I've never counted, but a spool goes a long way. At $10/spool, that's very cheap strings!

[Don Case]

Thanks Guys you saved me a few bucks.
Don

[adb]

The price of strings is probably the least of any part of primitive archery!

[Ifrit617]

Anything up to 45# I use 10 strands b-50. Anything up to 50# I use 12 strands. I don't shoot anything over 50# and I have made countless strings from two spools of b-50 I bought 3 or four years ago, and they still have 4-5 more strings left in them.

Jon 

[JW_Halverson]

Anything up to 45# I use 10 strands b-50. Anything up to 50# I use 12 strands. I don't shoot anything over 50# and I have made countless strings from two spools of b-50 I bought 3 or four years ago, and they still have 4-5 more strings left in them.

Jon

If I could get myself to stop using my b-50 for everything from sewing leather projects to tying up packages, I might eke a few more bowstrings out of a spool.  Nonetheless, I think the large spools are a great buy....lotsa strings for not a lot of money. 

[kevinsmith5]

It's not so much the cost of the strings that makes me make my own, it's the freedom to make one a like the looks of. A string made of tan b-50 with brown serving just LOOKS better on a all wood longbow than a black on black one.and when I make a green stained hickory reflex deflex bow a light green string with dark green serving is what it needs....