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String Making Quick Braid

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oneeye:
A few years ago Ed Scott taught me this quick way of making a string out of b-50. He called it the "Scott Twist"  Takes less than five minutes.

 Start with 3 bundles of 5.                            Twist each bundle away from you. Then 1 bundle over the otner 2bundles(1 over 2and3,  2 over 3 and 1 ...) 20 or so times and keep twisting each bundle  as you lay them over the other 2.

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                                                              form a loop and pair the bundles by twisting them together
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Then make a simple braid until your past your tag ends.  Tie a bowyers knot for the other side.  Simple
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CraigMBeckett:
oneeye,

I'm not sure from your description but are you essentially making a Flemish twist for only the eye/loop then plaiting/braiding the tail rather than laying it in?

If so then wouldn't this produce an inferior string as the platted/braided tails would stretch each time the bow is shot?

Craig.

Justin Snyder:
I think Marc St Louis did a how to article in the magazine similar to this a while back.
Justin

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