No, I never made a bowsting out of it. At the time I had made one bow before I learned to work with nettle. It was a lemonwood longbow, about 70 lbs pull when I was 12. It broke after limited usage. I built it along the line of a yew longbow, used information from The Archer's Craft by, I believe, Adrian Elliot Hodgkin (I'm going back in memory 47 years!!) But while I could draw the bow It was too powerful for me at the time. Anyhow, I have made a lot of cordage, but never a natural bowstring. I haven't found any nettle locally, there is some milkweed. I don't know how to identify dogbane. Currently I'm recuperating from some surgery, spent a lot of time on the net, which is how I found this forum. I have a nice hickory overbuilt flatbow, slightly recurved, with a (sorry for this) nylon cable back. About 80 lbs, it seems to have very good cast. I am wanting to make a few more bows soon, I have some really excellent hickory that was cut for me. I have to get healed up and catch up on work (self employed, no insurance, I need to work!!) I am making my own shafts, and I have a nice, simple, 3 fletch jig I want to got pictures of and explanation on how to build on the 'net. It will take me a while right now.