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Offline paulsemp

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Re: Fast flight fears
« Reply #30 on: June 04, 2015, 04:14:39 pm »
or you could invite pearly boy over and stick all of it in his work bag and send him home with it. that's what I did
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« Reply #31 on: June 04, 2015, 04:22:59 pm »
Somebody left Marshall with it, not sure who grabbed it?
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Re: Fast flight fears
« Reply #32 on: June 04, 2015, 04:23:25 pm »
Use the B50 to make friendship bracelets for everyone on PA.
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« Reply #33 on: June 04, 2015, 04:24:33 pm »
Good thinking J dog.
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Re: Fast flight fears
« Reply #34 on: June 04, 2015, 04:37:43 pm »
Did pauly stuff a bunch of crap in your big old man purse pearlie
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Re: Fast flight fears
« Reply #35 on: June 04, 2015, 04:38:43 pm »
Use it up , it makes fine strings. Just don't twist it up like a coil, no more than 3 twist per inch and it is fine. The problem with most is they have way to much twist,people make them to long and then twist to fit. Then you have a coil spring but if you only put a few you will be surprised at the difference. Pappy
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: Fast flight fears
« Reply #36 on: June 04, 2015, 04:44:53 pm »
Quote from: bubby on June 04, 2015, 04:37:43 pm
Did pauly stuff a bunch of crap in your big old man purse pearlie

Yup.  A 3/4" copper elbow, baseball size piece of rock, 2 spools of B50, and a couple goose feathers!
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Offline Tree_Ninja

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Re: Fast flight fears
« Reply #37 on: June 04, 2015, 06:29:41 pm »
Just ordered some d97.

I think I will attempt to use up my b55. Pappy shed some light on the issue at hand(too many twists).  I will also make some bush strings and put em in my cruiser vest incase I find a nice piece of wood I can turn into a bow during lunch.


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Offline huisme

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Re: Fast flight fears
« Reply #38 on: June 05, 2015, 01:10:23 am »
You shouldn't twist the bundles so hard that they're super tight as you go. Like Pappy said, the twist from three-per-inch is more than enough to keep the string together and keeps the string from stretching.

The string on the lift, black and white, is a recent string and is made pretty decently in my opinion, about one twist every inch before setting brace properly. The string on the right is pretty old, from before I started making at least one a week. Both need wax ;)

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Re: Fast flight fears
« Reply #39 on: June 05, 2015, 04:38:16 am »
I had a string maker from Ohio show and tell me that, he can make a B50 that will perform maybe not quite as good as FF but pretty dang good and settles in fast.Maybe 1 brace adjustment after shooting it a while. I still use D97 now but have no problem with B50 if the string is made right. :)
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Offline bow101

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Re: Fast flight fears
« Reply #40 on: June 05, 2015, 01:31:18 pm »
I use this stuff just to lazy to twist a string and to busy making dust in the shop.  :P  it claims safe work load of  40#. 
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Offline huisme

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Re: Fast flight fears
« Reply #41 on: June 05, 2015, 01:38:31 pm »
Uh... Is that a funny? 'Cause I mean, it'd probably stay in one piece long enough but... It takes less than twenty minutes to make a string... And that stuff is made to stretch... ???
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Offline bow101

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Re: Fast flight fears
« Reply #42 on: June 05, 2015, 01:55:03 pm »
Quote from: huisme on June 05, 2015, 01:38:31 pm
Uh... Is that a funny? 'Cause I mean, it'd probably stay in one piece long enough but... It takes less than twenty minutes to make a string... And that stuff is made to stretch... ???

I pre-stretch it and some of my bows have over 200 shots and they are hung on the rack by the string, so far no problems in the last 3 years.   "twenty minutes to make a string"    :laugh:  takes me 2 minutes.  Try it you will like it, no hand shock and really no stretch when pulling.
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Re: Fast flight fears
« Reply #43 on: June 05, 2015, 02:12:45 pm »
Maybe it was the string I was buying. I've never been able to pre-stretch enough to keep a fifty pound bow from dropping brace height every five shots. Your string looks considerably thicker so that might do it.

All that aside though I'm not switching from Flemish twist :P I hardly make any bows for myself anyway, the ones I ship need their nice Flemish twists.
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Re: Fast flight fears
« Reply #44 on: June 05, 2015, 02:59:25 pm »
huisme I'd like to see some of your BL bows.  Hopefully in the future I'll make one, heck the BL trees are right in front of me.     8)
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