Waxing serving

[DC]

I read somewhere that you shouldn't wax serving. Anybody know a "why" if it's even true?

[Pat B]

I wax the serving to help prevent fraying. No one ever told me not to. 

[make-n-break]

Just use BCY Halo serving, you'll wear out the string and the serving will still look like the day you put it on, wax or no wax

I read once that for trad shooters it "supposedly" makes it dangerously slippery for your fingers, and for wheelie bows it can make the D loop slip. Also works its way down into the serving and causes it to slide around on the string. All sounds a little silly to me tho.

[DC]

I read it in "Shooting the Stickbow". I did a Google search and the only info I could find was about crossbows and wheelie bows. They were concerned about wax buildup in wheels and gears and such.

I priced some serving thread the other day and just about lost my lunch. $25 for a spool about the size of  a sewing machine spool. I've been using Dyneema. $25 for 300yds

[make-n-break]

You can find Halo for bout $10- $19 on the big auction site, free shipping. The spool looks kinda small but you'd be surprised how much is on there. I've served dozens of Flemish strings with the same color and have used maybe half the spool.

[PEARL DRUMS]

Good bee's wax will make it sticky if you over do it, other than that I cant see why it matters. I do as Pat does. Usually I wax the entire string at the build point, then just the string portion after that about once a year, I use dyneema's. 

[DC]

Thanks guys. I couldn't see what was wrong with it. I hate it when an author says,"Don't do such and such." and doesn't give a reason. Makes me think they don't know either.

[PEARL DRUMS]

Authors are just guys with a pen and paper. Like the internet, everything you read isn't true.

[DC]

It isn't???

[Joec123able]

What are the qualitys of good serving string? I personally just use the same string I make the rest of the string from works fine for me never needed a different type of string.

[Pat B]

The serving is just to protect the bow string. What the serving is made of probably doesn't matter.

[Joec123able]

Gotcha thanks

[mikekeswick]

I use BCY #62XS which is very similar to Halo mentioned above. Make and break is right the best servings outlast your string! If you haven't used this stuff before I strongly recommend it. Well worth the money as it outlasts everything else i've tried many times over.

[crooketarrow]

 If you read it on the web it's got to be true.