Hello, I recently had a friend make a couple of Dacron strings for my new 60" recurve. They are 14 strand, but they came out alittle too long. My question is how many twists can you put in a bowstring before you start to seriously weaken the string. Right now they are wound pretty tight. The bow is 60#@28"...Thanks for any input that you might have.
Ideally you want fewer twist per inch. I don't remember the right or wrong number but 6 or so per inch isn't bad. If the string knots up before you string it onto the bow it's probably not good. I've shot fast flight with a lot of twists would not do dacron as tight.
Maybe some some else will have a better formula.
Ron
Brownell recommends 1 twist in the string for each 2-3 inches of string length.
Bue--.
Thank You for the Tip Buemaker!! :readit: just to be safe. :rolleyes: :archer:
I'm going to say that the Brownell recommendation is for endless strings. You want more than 1 twist per 2-3" for flemish. I've seen some that would probably come apart with no more than that.
On the original question, if they are flemish you can get away with quite a bit, but you are loosing performance and can compromise the string with too much. I guess 4-5 twists per inch would be the max.
Chad
Brownell says 20-40 twists for flemish.