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Main Boards => The Bowyer's Bench => Topic started by: AndyTurner on December 03, 2020, 04:47:24 AM
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The reason I ask is, string grooves are typically very shallow, say 2mm, if you then add a “string silencer pad” then IMO that pretty much fills in the groove anyway thus negating the effect of the string groove.
So are string grooves really necessary?
Thanks
Andy
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After my thinking I would say yes. If your limb alignment and shooting technique, release were 150 % perfect probably not. Me certainly not and if that bowstring slams home a tiny bit off center it will drop into that grove.
Would be interesting to see a high speed film of it. I have no scientific proof to say this though.
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I don't think grooves are necessary. The string groove is AFAIK a 20th century invention, and they've been making recurves for something like 5000 years. Some, but not all, of the wood-horn-sinew Scythian bows from 2500-300 years ago had short string grooves, but they also had nearly 270 degree semi-circular recurves which you can't get easily with modern materials. Turkish crab- bows don't have string grooves. Some ancient bows with foot long or longer contact (string-follow) siyahs had string pads added to the limbs but not gouged into them.
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It depends. Some need them. Some don't. I've made recurves where the outer limbs where the string touches is practically round. They seem to like em.
I've never needed a 'string silencer pad' so can't speak to that.
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Yes
On Fiberglass bows
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What Bue said.
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If you add a pad over the string groove the string will still fall into the groove.