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Using paracord 550 for tillering
FilipT:
Btw, Del, have you ever considered using thin steel cable as a tillering string, like Ian said in beginning of this thread?
Del the cat:
--- Quote from: Stalker on July 28, 2016, 05:04:22 am ---Btw, Del, have you ever considered using thin steel cable as a tillering string, like Ian said in beginning of this thread?
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Yes and I dismissed it when I was about 14 years old making crossbows from car springs.
Hideous idea IMO
Del
Del the cat:
--- Quote from: Stalker on July 28, 2016, 04:42:46 am ---Thanks Del. So you make this tillering string with two loops and then you put that ring in middle for adjusting?
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Yes, exactly...
It lets you adjust the "long string" to be just long enough to slip on to start with, you then can adjust for low brace, and eventually full brace. It the gives you the exact length for making the real string.
You make a string like that and make/find an adjuster and you'll never regret it. Or I'll give you your money back!
Del
FilipT:
I'll do what you say but I have trouble finding your method on internet in close up. I saw wooden ring method on your wobbly yew bow. So you push string through ring (made of metal or wood) and when you want to shorten it, you take one end and go through the ring again, and again to shorten it more. Did I get that correctly? Does that wear out string?
Del the cat:
--- Quote from: Stalker on July 28, 2016, 11:50:03 am ---I'll do what you say but I have trouble finding your method on internet in close up. I saw wooden ring method on your wobbly yew bow. So you push string through ring (made of metal or wood) and when you want to shorten it, you take one end and go through the ring again, and again to shorten it more. Did I get that correctly? Does that wear out string?
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Yes that's the idea. The string wear is pretty minimal and irrelevant as you are not shooting with the string so it doesn't take mush strain. If you make big loops and serve them tight, they will fit over even a roughed out stave. The loops get plenty of wear, but again it diesn't really matter. The ring can me made of anything tough enough not to break, I originally had a wooden one but the string digs into it, nylon would work, or any metal, but an old bearing works ok too.
Del
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