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Title: Actual String length question??? Need some help!
Post by: Oliverstacy on April 15, 2010, 06:13:00 PM
I was wondering if someone could help me out on a string length.

I have a request for a string for the St. Jude's action...it is going on the following bow.

1962 Bear Grizzly (longbow or Recurve)...I believe it's a recurve but I'm not sure.

45# and is 62"

It measures 59" tip to tip unstrung.

If you need more info I can get it but I don't have the bow...it is being refinished by Joe "Whip" Lasch and will be done hopefully when the auction is complete.

Thanks,

Josh
Title: Re: Actual String length question??? Need some help!
Post by: Bjorn on April 15, 2010, 07:15:00 PM
A 1962 Grizzly is a recurve it takes a standard string for an AMO 62 recurve.....I just measured one and it is 58".
Title: Re: Actual String length question??? Need some help!
Post by: vermonster13 on April 15, 2010, 07:19:00 PM
Yes it takes a 58" string, not a standard AMO which would be 59".
Title: Re: Actual String length question??? Need some help!
Post by: Oliverstacy on April 15, 2010, 07:47:00 PM
Thanks!!!

I'll get this built tonight and it will be heading to Joe's tomorrow.

Josh
Title: Re: Actual String length question??? Need some help!
Post by: Jeremy on April 15, 2010, 08:29:00 PM
AMO standards weren't adopted until Feb 1968 and state that a bow's length is determined by measuring the string that braces it correctly (measured under tension) and adding 3"  :)

The string for '62 Grizzly should be in the neighborhood of 58" when measured under tension.