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markinengland:
Jaro,
Mark Stretton told me that it makes a difference if the fibres are from the male or female hemp plant. He said that one is much stronger than the other. I am afraid I canot remember which one though. I hope he wasn't pulling my leg!
Mark in England

sagitarius boemoru:
I might be able to try. I will know in august, when I get the material. Since they are going to process it for me by hand anyway it should be easy to separate the material from each other...


Jaro

Yeomanbowman:

--- Quote from: markinengland on June 05, 2007, 11:00:59 am ---Jaro,
Mark Stretton told me that it makes a difference if the fibres are from the male or female hemp plant. He said that one is much stronger than the other. I am afraid I canot remember which one though. I hope he wasn't pulling my leg!
Mark in England

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Mark, I think it's femail.

SimonUK:

--- Quote from: sagitarius boemoru on June 04, 2007, 05:09:46 pm ---J.D. it becomes somehow sticky in water, but I tried to unglue some things I glued on musical instrument with hide glue and there was lots of vapour needed and in end I broke the wood off rather than having the joint coming loose.But I m not expert in these strings and save cooking glue I dont use it nearly as often.

With strings - they dont work when overdry, they wont work when soaked completelly either, but if the hide glue works instead of wax as we use it, would there be much diference if it just be sticky as hell?
(But no doubt the archers knew rain was not good for bows nor strings)

Jaro

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Off thread, but if you need to unstick the hide glue in a musical instrument, you insert a hot knife into the joint.

gpw:
Thicker strings may reduce cast, but are more comfortable to shoot and usually alot quieter...

"it's an ill string that breaketh a good bow"....

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