Spiderline for Serving

[MarineR6er]

Has anyone ever tried using spider line for serving? You know the fishing line that you can buy at Wal-mart?

[vermonster13]

It's good for tying nocks and cat-whiskers.

[waknstak IL]

I used  some the other day to re- serve a string on one of my old compounds I was giving away to the son of a friend. Looked nice, Kinda small in diameter though. I used 50 lb. I want to try and tie on some arrowheads with it.

[MarineR6er]

That got me thinking...Would regular old fishing line work?  The tough saltwater line would resist tearing pretty good. Is fishing line what they call monofilament?  If so I got a ton of that stuff and would never need to buy serving.

[Allan Hundeby]

I had that same thought when I bought some this fall!  Let me know how it works!

[Jon Stewart]

I've got an old spool of monofilament serving line from Brownell.  Looks to be about 6 or 8 pound fishing line. Used it before the new stuff came out.

[WoodSpringer]

I have taken it a step further and used Spiderwire as the string strands for the string on my 125lb Mach6. I has worked great for me.

WoodSpringer

No compounds please.

[MarineR6er]

Anyone else tried spiderline?

[numbfinger]

ive been using braided spectra fishing line [ different brand but basically spiderwire], in 80# test , as centerserving over 12 strands of df 97, it works pretty well.

been told that halo is braided spectra too,so that's what i'm gonna try next.

[SOS]

Any idea the diameter of any of these fishing lines?

[vermonster13]

The diameters are written right on the boxes.

[FJTOYMAN]

I've been using Tuff-Line for my nocks/2nd serving. Makes the string a little thicker and easier on the fingers.

[Richard in OK]

I'll be interested to see how long the mono lasts. It usually deteriorates in uv light, and most fishing "experts" advise getting rid of it after a year. Any problems with that?
Richard