Has anyone used a padded fast flight on a selfbow? I was told it would be ok as long as it was padded.
Yep, never had a problem, but I only use them on bows with tip overlays. The exception is osage, I don't worry about having overlays when using it.
I switched to FF about two years ago on all of my selfbows.
ive done it on two bows now no problem. 12 strand d97 on one and 14 strands on another. no padding. if i was gonna go like 9 strands i guess i would.
I've got 4 selbows all with d97 10 strand loops padded to 16 strands. Only one of the 4 has tip overlays and I've had no issues with any of them. Definitely increases performance.
I use B-50 but I have 2 osage bows that Dano sent me, both have fast flight and neither have tip overlays.
I usually don't bother even padding the loops unless it's a really skinny string.
I have one sinew backed eastern red cedar with pin nocks and no overlays, it's been shooting for years with a FF string.
I don't even own B-50.
I use 10 strands and add 2 strands of b50 in the ends of each bundle, overlays or not