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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Hopewell Tom on December 03, 2012, 06:02:00 PM
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To set or change my brace height, I unstring the top end, keeping the bottom end attached, twist to the desired direction (longer or shorter), then restring the bow.
However, I just received a new Zipper and the instructions say to do the twisting from the bottom end. Also, I've been reading Fred Asbell's Instinctive Shooting books, and he says to completely unstring the bow and twist up or down and then replace the string.
It seems with the Zipper way, I'd have to reverse the stringer to make their system work and Mr. Asbell's string might lose some twist in the exchange.
What do you do?
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I let top loop slide down limb and twist at bottom.
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Same as Rob W. ! Maxx
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Same as Rob W.. How do you get the top off without taking the string off at the bottom? The top should slide down the limb when unstringing and stay on the top limb until the bottom is removed from the bow. The top loop is the larger loop.
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same as above, from the bottom.
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Okay, that makes sense. Thanks.
Gotta love this site...
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Originally posted by Rob W.:
I let top loop slide down limb and twist at bottom.
Yup, here too.
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Guess I am the only weirdo in the group. I take it off completely and step on the bottom loop twisting top loop. When it comes time to re string i just hold the bottom loop in place.
I will say twisting from the bottom loop is going to be my preferred method now because stringing and un-stringing during tuning is flat out :banghead:
Learn something on this site every night.
Thanks, Craig
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I do it differently too. I have leather tip protectors on all my lower limbs so I use my stringer and just slip the top loop off, twist it and then put it back on. I can't see where it's going to make a difference whether you twist at the top or bottom unless it's a matter of being more convenient to get the string off the lower limb.
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Originally posted by Rob W.:
I let top loop slide down limb and twist at bottom.
This way as I shoot a longbow and push pull to string and unstring.
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Originally posted by ChrisM:
Originally posted by Rob W.:
I let top loop slide down limb and twist at bottom.
This way as I shoot a longbow and push pull to string and unstring. [/b]
Yes Sir. Me Too. :campfire:
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I'm with wapitirod, I pull loose at the top, twist what I need, and put it back.
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Originally posted by ChrisM:
Originally posted by Rob W.:
I let top loop slide down limb and twist at bottom.
This way as I shoot a longbow and push pull to string and unstring. [/b]
Same here up to 75#, heavier bows I use the webster.
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Originally posted by Rob W.:
I let top loop slide down limb and twist at bottom.
Me too.
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I twist from the bottom.
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Originally posted by Roger Norris:
I twist from the bottom.
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I twist the bottom loop too.
Allan
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From the bottom.
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Originally posted by ksbowman:
How do you get the top off without taking the string off at the bottom?
With a Selway Stringer. I twist from the top loop and leave the bottom in place.
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Same as Stump.
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Bottom here too
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Same as stump.
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OK, so it's unanimous then - from the top or the bottom!
I was trying to figure out how to do it from the bottom and have that now. I've always done it from the top as Stump does with the Selway. I'm not sure what the difference is, top or bottom, but the instructions from Zipper and Fred Asbell got me thinking on the variations.
Thanks for all the responses.
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No, its not unanimous! There is actually another way to do it!
I twist both ends of the string an equal number of twists. Why? My nock point doesn't move as much.
At least I think it doesn't. I've been doing it that way for 20 years, so I can't remember just how much my nock point moved before.
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I like to take my string off,loop top over pin in door hinge and twist from the bottom. Run my wax over the string and burnish with a piece of leather.
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I do it like Tall Paul. I un-string the bow, slide the top loop down the limb. Remove the string from the bottom nock. Then I twist above the for the top of the string, then hold the serving and twist from the bottom loop the same number of turns. It just seems to make sense to me.
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Like Rob said.
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Like many others I slide the top loop down the limb and then take the bottom loop off and twist from the bottom.
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same here twist from the bottom if you go to striker bows web site rick ellis explan how he does it on his long bows. 60"@28 @50lbs striker stinger 3pc.takedown
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Son of of gun! I've learned another thing on Trad Gang!
I like stringers that have pockets on both ends. For this reason I always take the bottom loop off the limb and change string twists to adjust brace height, like many above.
The thing I've learned (duh) here the advantage of the stringer types that have one pocket and a rubber or leather pad that fits below the top limb tip when stringing. I now realize that stringer can be used when one wants to take the string off the top limb so one can twist from the top!
I've never liked those single loop stringers because they are more difficult for me to string and unstring with -- not enough leverage I suppose? Now I see their advantage.
Thanks!