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Primitive flax string
Trapper Rob:
Do they stretch & did you ever have one break friend of mine made one of sinew got about 300 shots then it broke.
Rob
Stringman:
Very little stretch to a flax string, less than Dacron. It will break cause it's just Plant fiber, but that's ok with me. Long as ya know what it is and not expect something different ur fine.
Scowler:
That is too cool!
BowEd:
Nice step by step job and estimation of your weight on that string.Your pictures are very good.You had'nt waxed it yet though when you weighed it correct?You did'nt do any type of breaking test then.I've gotten some 7ply irish linen from a company that I'm going to break test for a string.If it'll break at the low thirtys I figure to use nine strands in a three ply.
JEB:
OK, under there is no such thing as a dumb question catagory. What is flax and isn't flax fibers also used to back self bows?
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