Still rasping at the Osage stave Mullet gifted me. In the meantime I bought a old Ben Pearson longbow. It's 66 inches nock to nock. That should make the string 63 inches. The bow has several inches of curvature to it. So a 63 inch string doesn't give you enough brace height, it slaps the fire out of my wrist. I made a temporary string out of 550 paracord. It has no arrow shelf, I never shot a bow like this before. It shoots really good, I like it better than my oldvrecurve. No idea what draw it is. Anyway I shortened the string to 61 inches and it shot better but I think it could use one more inch brace height to get me enough room to clear 5 inch feathers on my soon to be finished self nock arrows. I have s 27 inch draw I think. Am I going to hurt the bow by having a string that short? It has another piece of wood to make the handle bigger to hold. I do need to put a arrow rest on it. Oh yes the upper limb is longer than the lower.
