Give us your Favorite String Material and why!

[Weylin]

Fastflight, all the way though I'd like to play around with natural materials at some point.

[Pat B]

Looks like its you and me George.     I'm comfortable with my old school ways. 

[Lee Lobbestael]

Hold on Pat I'm with you! I use B-50 exclusively. Mainly because I have been too cheap to try FF. I know B-50 does the trick.  FF out performs B-50 i'm sure, but then again...so does a Mathews Solo Cam!

[zenart]

Brownell D-75 = A responsive, snappy, FF. On release gives a satisfying tactile 'whip-wisk' sound. Love that!!
B-50 = mush

[Badger]

     I prefer the d-75, I often weave 4 strands fastflight into my linen strings for insurance. I recently have been trying silk, lots of stretch, very similar to b-50. The natural strings are nice to shoot but are much fatter and a tad slower than the modern. Last year at the flight shoots I entered a primitive bow in a modern class and shot a fast flite string, 353 yards, I switched to a linen string and entered the same bow and arrow in the primitive class and got 343 yards, not a big difference.

[lesken2011]

I bought a bunch of B-50 back in the 90's in various colors I am still going through. I have a little FF in black and white that I used on some FG bows I own but have been reluctant to put it on bows I make. I have a couple under construction right now that I may have to experiment with, though.

[H Rhodes]

B-50 works for me and I have a lot of it on hand.  My mind isn't closed to FF strings, I just haven't tried it yet.   

[Marc St Louis]

If you just tend to build your standard straight limb bow of modest draw weight then B50 is perfectly adequate.  Once you move into the high string tension designs or high draw weight bows then using a FF material makes a world of difference.

[Del the cat]

Looks like its you and me George.     I'm comfortable with my old school ways. 

I'd have thought you'd be twisting 'em up out of beard combings Pat
The only reason I'm bald is 'cos I used it all up on bowstings 
Del

[George Tsoukalas]

Yes, Pat, old school for us. Imagine that! Jawge

[TimBo]

Would there be any issues with switching to D97 on bows that have only had B50?  Would you need to go slow and "re-train" the bow since it would be used to some stretch? 

[Pat B]

Too brittle, Del. I have however, added a strand or two to the string while shooting. 

[Don Case]

I should add that I build up the loops with 4 strands of b50 on my 8 strand strings.

Is there a buildalong or something that would show me how this is done? Does anyone serve their loops?
Thanks
Don

[missilemaster]

Would there be any issues with switching to D97 on bows that have only had B50?  Would you need to go slow and "re-train" the bow since it would be used to some stretch?

If possible I would add tip overlays made out of a hard tropical,  pad the loops of the string and give it a wirl!

[PatM]

B-50 is as modern as any other high tech string, it was just invented first. 
 It does make me chuckle a bit that trad purists have decided that a type of Dupont plastic product is a throwback to simpler times.