My first attempt I used a method I found in an old issue of Prim archer. Basically you get enough fibers to span about 24 feet that would be the thickness of 1/4 of the finished string diameter. You then tie off one end of a bundle, splice another bundled then another until you get to a 6' mark then wrap it around something stationary and go back to the point where you tied off. Now you have 12 feet. Then work your way back to your 6' mark wrap it and back to your point of origin now you have 24 feet. Then unwrap so you now have a 24 foot straight string. Twist until it kinks than fold and now you have 12 feet reverse twisted. Then repeat that and you have 6 feet again reverse twisted. The magazine explains this much more clearly than I do.
When I did this then tested it the splices kept ripping out. I was really PI@@ed. That was a lot of fiber. And a lot of time. The string I am making now is more like the TBB shows. Basically a Flemish twist staggering splices like you would do with sinew . Much easier and hopefully much stronger. I am sure the way in the Prim. archer article describes works, but I must have missed something. Here are a couple pics of the unfinished new string.
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