tillering string

[troutbum76]

Wondering if there is any advantage to using a flemish tillering string.

[DanaM]

I use one but only with one loop and a timber hitch on the other end

[Pat B]

Mine is like Dana's, Flemish twist with a loop and a bowyers knot, but I also use a parachute cord tillering string with 2 slip knots.

[troutbum76]

Mine is like Dana's, Flemish twist with a loop and a bowyers knot, but I also use a parachute cord tillering string with 2 slip knots.

this seems like the most economical way to go. i am assume that the amount of stretch in a parachute cord is similar to common bow string material.

[Hillbilly]

I usually use parachute cord or clothesline rope, at least until I get close to final tiller.

[Pat B]

For long string tiller I'm only going 6" to 8" of tip movement then I go to a short string(re-tie the bowyers knot shorter) braced at 4".

[adb]

I also use a tillering string with a single loop. I can modify it to long string, and then re-tie the timber hitch to whatever brace height I want. It is FF.

[sailordad]

i used to use a parachute cord untill recently.
i wanted to learn to make my own strings so i bought a couple of rolls of b50 dacron and twisted up a bunch of strings at various lengths.
i have one that is about 72" and then they range shorter from there and i keep them all on  nails and just keep going to a shorter string as i tiller.
not very cost effective but i think i am gettineg better at twisting a string now.

[roofus]

I use work boot strings. The brown braided kind.

[Pappy]

I do the same as Pat/Dana/adb.I have really got lazy.I make a tiller string ,and use to make a regular one when I was finished tillering,now I get the tiller string set and just serve it for the finished
bow. 
   Pappy

[John K]

Same as Pappy/Dana/Pat and adb. Sometimes i'll use my bow stringer for a long string when i'm just getting the tips bending.

[ricochet]

i use a tillering sting with leather boots on each end, they seem 2 work but are y'alls strings better 4 tillering?

[Hillbilly]

Ricochet, I think the moral of the story is that almost anything will work for a tillering string as long as it's strong enough and not really stretchy. I think Marc mentioned once that he used 1/8" steel cable for a tillering "string" on some of his highly reflexed recurves. I usually don't make up a "nice" string for tillering just because the process of tillering is tough on the string.