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sleek:
Cabling. What is it and why is it bad?

Griff:

--- Quote from: sleek on January 16, 2016, 10:15:19 pm ---Cabling. What is it and why is it bad?

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looks as if cabling is bad because your string cant handle it and breaks. If I'm picking up what bubby is putting down then I'd guess cabling happens when you have twists in your string body that are much like what you would have in your loops. real tight and twisted over as well. the string that came with my bow had a definite difference in the string pattern from the loop ends to the main body of the string. I'm thinking bubby is saying that its acceptable to twist your overall string after you get your loops made but you don't want to twist the individual strands AND twist them together.

osage outlaw:
Cabling is when your two bundles are twisted before you twist them together.  The entire string will look like the twists out of the loops.  I don't know if it hurts performance.  If you had one bundle shorter than the other when you twisted it up I'd guess that was your problem.


This string is smooth with no cabling.




This string has some cabling

bubby:
Besides looking really crappy if one bundle has more twists than the other it makes that bundle shorter, putting more stress on one bundle and not both

sleek:
Hmmmmm this is interesting. I suppose i cable all my strings because they all look like the bottom one. But, i reverse twist. Will that make a difference?

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