Breaking string

[loon]

loon..were you using fast flight string?

yes, something like that..
Maybe I should make a dacron string now that I think about it, although I glued the notch back on and filed the notches deeper so the force actually goes through the wood

[loon]

So far I'm just playing with pork sausage casings. I've twisted some and they are drying. I'll figure a way to do some strength testing without breaking my scale.

Very interested in this! Apparently Magyars might have used gut strings for their hornbows?... ...

[Marc St Louis]

You should look into tennis racket gut, it is quite strong for its diameter.  The stuff I picked up was from a source south of the border and I think the shipping cost as much as the gut