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Pat B:
B-55 has wax on it. Make your string and wax it later after you get it. You can take a small piece of leather and work up and down the string on a braced bow. This will melt the wax on the string to get through the string and help pre-stretch the string.

osage outlaw:
Would chapstick work as string wax in a pinch?  Toilet seal wax rings are very soft and tacky.  If you found some plain paraffin wax you could try mixing the two.  I made a bunch of string wax from toilet rings and beeswax.

AndrewS:
I made my string wax from beeswax,  a little bit of tree resin (collophonium) (may be 5 percent) and drop of sunflower oil.
You can use parrafin based wax (normal candles) instead of beeswax.

Melting the wax with the powdered resin, put in a drop (or two) oil, mix. After cooling down itis ready to use.

In an urgent case you can also take a piece of candle and rub it into the string threads.....

Corvus:
Not in a rush, will wait for my beeswax. Yeah the b55 is wasee, but I just like waxing it up when I do the loops otherwise I would just twist up some strings and wax later.

Corvus:

--- Quote from: Hawkdancer on April 29, 2020, 11:17:20 pm ---Maybe find a beeswax candle at your local a ce(no space)hardware, they seem to have a bunch of stuff!  Soaking the sinew should save a lot of banging and pounding, and is easier on the sinew!  It helps to have the string jig finished, too (lol)
Hawkdancer

--- End quote ---

Just thank you so much for mentioning soaking. Made it zero pounding and banging and it comes out way cleaner with practically zero wasted. Way less work and you get more sinew out of the tendon  ;D

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