Got a new to me bow. Osage Orange with rattle snake skin backing. The string on it seems wrong on it. The knock on it seems well above the shelf either way its put on. Believe its 60# at 28 but I can't get the brace height past 3 to 3 1/2 inches. only thing I can come up with is its the wrong string. Twisting the string any tighter seems like it would be too much. Came with bamboo arrows with 60# on it and the name of the bowyer, S. Carson Jones. How to get the right brace height? Determine if this is the right string. I'll post pics.
Anyone around you from whom you could borrow a likely string and work from there? I would think the string would be in the neighborhood of 3" less than the bow length. Even if you find one and it braces at 8 1/2", you could then measure that string and order one 1" shorter. Or if there is an archery shop nearby, they could probably fit you up with one. Even if it isn't the string you would like to have, you would then have a benchmark for the cost of $8 or $9. I have a recurve that is supposed to be 60", but it really takes a 57" string.
Wow hmmm.....the current string is pretty taught and about an inch or so shorter than the bow. I don't have prob with my 50# bow as far as drawing but I can't imagine this thing with a shorter string as far drawing it. Then again the brace height is so short...it must need a shorter string. Local shop is pretty much compound only.
What is the length of the bow?
For a general rule of thumb: If the bow is a recurve, the string is usually 4" shorter than the length of the bow. If the bow is a longbow, the string is usually 3" shorter than the length of the bow.
Yeah, that string's a couple of inches too short. You could make up, or have made, a string with a loop on one end only. Use a timber hitch (bowyer's knot) on the other. That way you can change the string length if need be.
Length of bow is 60 1/4" tip to tip. Knock to knock its 59". String is 55 1/2 inside loop to inside loop. Brace height from front of riser is 4 1/4". Can't be right.....unless I get arrows with 3" or less fletching.
Ahhhh I forget how to post pics.
take the string and hook it in the lower string notch... then pull it taunt wrapping it along the belly side both of the limbs and tell us how much you have left between the end of the string and the upper string notch. it should be about 3 inches on both recurve bows and long bows. Most of the older recurve's that has a 4 inch shorter string were braced between 8"-9".
even a long bow shouldn't brace any lower than 6" or you'll be biting your wrist....
Oh the wrist has been bitten HARD!!!!! somehow I didn't notice due to the sheer awe of my arrow hitting the Target like a freight train but she bites....will measure tomorrow. My uneducated mind knows something is amiss just can't finger it.
I think before you do anything I would call the bowyer and ask him this question.
How to post pictures using photobucket (http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=129;t=000087)
See if this will help you with the pictures.