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Title: Linen backing
Post by: b.glass on February 16, 2009, 04:24:00 PM

Have any of you used or heard of using linen fabric for bow backing? I have linen string but saw some linen fabric on sale and was wondering how that would work for backing a bow.
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Bona

Title: Re: Linen backing
Post by: Pat B on February 16, 2009, 05:07:00 PM

Bona, linen makes an excellent bow backing. You can use any carpenters glue but I prefer TBIII. Pat

Title: Re: Linen backing
Post by: ranger 3 on February 16, 2009, 06:00:00 PM

I just put some linen on a bow and it work great.

Title: Re: Linen backing
Post by: b.glass on February 16, 2009, 09:51:00 PM

Did you guys use fabric or string? I would think that the fabric would be actually better than string. I picked up some brown, 100% linen for $10 a yard and thought I would try it on some youth bows.

Title: Re: Linen backing
Post by: Pat B on February 16, 2009, 10:34:00 PM

You could do it with the linen string but the cloth makes it quite simple to do.