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WillS:
Right. I feel like a moron posting this, but I'm utterly stuck and need some guidance.

I've finished long string tillering my 130# yew warbow.  It's been ready for brace height tillering for about a week now.   I made a new string from 14 strands of FastFlight Plus.  I put the string on the bow, and unstrung but held tight the top loop is about 2 inches from the nock.  I put the long string on, wind it back on the tiller until I can string the bow.

The real string now sits tight with a 5 inch brace or so.  I let the winch down slowly to take weight off the long string.... And the bowstring just stretches until the brace height is zero.  Over and over again! I cannot get this bow to brace. 

I've even resorted to tying the new string to the tiller and winding it back on it's own, leaving it at 160# so it stretches.  Doesn't make a bit of difference! I've never come across this before.

The real problem is that to get the bow back far enough to string it, it takes about 100# and I have to leave it sat at that weight while I wrestle the string on which is causing the bow to start taking some serious set and nothing I do will get this damn bow to brace height!

toomanyknots:
I've never heard of ff stretching significantly. I don't know, but I would opt for more strands, as I have read it is more stable. And I am really not the person to give advice on strings, but I would just keep reducing the length a bit until you have an acceptable brace height I guess. Sometimes if you have a lot of twists in a flemish it will need to settle in a good bit. If you using a flemish, try out an endless loop with as little twist as possible, it will stretch/settle less I find.

WillS:
Awesome, cheers dude.  I'll make up an endless and see what happens! This one does have a LOT of twists in it...

adb:
Are you positive it's FF??

WillS:
Yup! Brownell FF Plus.  According to the sticker on the spool.

Sure as heck doesn't feel like FastFlight though.  I dunno if the "Plus" stuff is lower quality than "FastFlight"?

Think I might start calling it FartFlight for all the good it is...

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