Making a Survival Bow String from Bankline

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it's mission into survival say that I'm making a quickie bank line bowstring we're making four strand stay tuned so basically all I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take the bank line I'm gonna go back and forth four times and I'm gonna leave myself at each end like about a foot extra because I'd rather have a little too much than not enough because if I make it too short I waste all that cord all right so I'm going to go ahead and do that all right so it's just the same bank line with care on a site I just take it off the Roll that way it's more pliable to be different shapes and stuff in my rucksack make sure I have about a foot holding it tight while I pull so that way I don't pull obviously strength this if I do that I'm gonna lose

all right so now I have four strands just went back and forth four times okay so the next step is I'm going to cut the loops in the rope I'm going to tie a bowline on one side is my anchor that's not gonna slip on me then I'm gonna work on the other one okay so this is what I have my four strands a bank line running the whole length of my bow it has the other end here's the other four okay so that the whole length of my bow plus a foot on each side okay so now I'm gonna just make a bowline and you know I have a lot of room to play with so you don't do beat you worried about messing up right now that's why you give yourself a foot on each side so I'm sure you remember how to make a bowline right make a loop go down underneath around back through check my knot video if you haven't

so I'm doing with all four strands I'm gonna make this small enough so it fits on the knock over there but it doesn't really want to come off it's not overly huge

so I'm looking at right now for my loop it's probably pretty close I think that will work

it's going to go around back through make sure I get around all distress yeah yeah

so I'm gonna go back through that's three and the one loner there's the floor

make sure we have four in the same we do okay so I'm going to stop pulling that talk

all right

so there is a four we go for strand bowline with Bank line this will be the anchor of my string so let's put it on and work on the other side so what you do is you lightly twist the string I like to go counterclockwise that's the way that the earth is rotating and you step in here bow okay now this is how I set my my placement of mine on for the other side of my string for all my bows so this in essence is how I make my strings it's really really simple again another another technique that my buddy Kevin taught me taught me a ton of archery but I appreciate that pretty simple stuff you go around your knock you know underneath okay underneath grab a nice handful now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna step into my bow I'm gonna bend my limbs and pull at the same time so I'm shortening the string up

now I'm gonna let it relax let the string stretch out a little bit do it again

I do it again just a couple times now I'm gonna just wrap it around the knock so I can get a good look and test my brace hike rap a few times I just put a half hitch in it not a big deal

sounds like my sounds like my daughter's coming to visit me but one more half hitch in there just like that okay now see all right nice sweet huh okay my little daughter can't visit me she's only 16 months all right so here's my brace height it's just a quickie survival bow so the brace height is gonna be a low and that's fine on me I like to have on the bowl like this cookie bow no lower than my fist all right so see all right okay it's a little too low okay it's about one finger too low so I'm gonna go back undo my two half hitches tighten it a little bit more put my half hitches on again until that's where it's at I'll be right back all right so just tighten it again now really if half a finger almost there so the boats been sitting there for two minutes so I bet if I do one more time I'll be good to go this time we'll do it on camera

gonna step into my bow there's a stuff in my pockets over not in the way just put my leg right on the handle

to undo my to half hitches and grab the string bit and talk and I'm going to bend the bow now the string is lats I'm gonna take up that slack

love it right there I'm gonna go around and then keep it tight the half hitch keep in sight another half hitch okay see we wrap close enough for me all right I mean we're pretty much a fist I'm like a quarter of a finger off close enough for me not that big of a deal all right so now I'm gonna take a piece of charcoal and I'm gonna mark up the back of the bank line or whatever I'm using as a string okay now what this is gonna do has given me a spot on the string let the back of my not has to be at so for this string to still have this brace height after it I undo it and I tie the knot as long as the charcoal is at the back of my bowl line it'll be just like this

all right so have the area chart with the truck a lot I mean you guys can see right there

so I'm gonna make that the back of my not

so I'm holding what needs to be the back of my not-so this needs to be the back then you start my bowl line further down so my knot will look like this a bowline I wanna make it a little bigger than that

all right so my knot will be about this big

I want to make it bigger because it has to be big enough to move down the whole bow it has to be wider than the widest point of the bow I'll show you why in a minute and be real careful to keep my place while I tie this knot okay which is where I'm at so far keeping my finger at the back where the knot has to be the end of the knot where the knock is going to go looking for precision here not speed I'm going to do it once you want to do it right

slowly tightening it up keeping my finger where I want where I want the end of the knot to be pull on it a little bit make sure my knots couldn't balance all right so there's my bowline and it's exact length that I think it needs to be for me to have at least a fist for my brace height so let's pop it on see how she fits alright so here's why I keep it wider than the widest part of my limp there's two ways to get this loop on now first is

take my bottom loop off so this can reach and slides below my NOC here and so this can get back on I'll show you how to do that right now go to my smaller one take it off okay I'll just keep it down here for a second put my bow around put my larger one on slide it down far enough

until my bottom not can now reach people back on so now

some tough on so now the topknot it's on the limp second needs to be to be slid up and put in the knob okay that's the easiest way to do it so now the question becomes why bother making this bigger because for the future if I find that my bow starts creating set which means that basically my limbs over time are no longer where they were if I'm pulling the bull back this way

in my limbs over time set here permanently

I lose a couple inches now my strings a little too long I'm gonna lose cast notice for power okay I'm most drawing up anyways because the bows a little shorter now but at least it still has strength so when that happens instead having to make a new string you can just twist your string but here's the problem I can't twist it right now the way it is when it's on the bow it doesn't work so you do is you make this big enough this top one big enough so it can slide all the way down the bow I'm gonna hold my bottom not on for you guys so I'm gonna slide the top one all the way down the bow I'm going to go past bottom one down here okay

pull it through so now

my bottom is still on but I was just able to get my top one on if I'll take it my bottom off so now I can take it and I can twist it and make it shorter because if I twist the string to get shorter

but saw my limb anymore right so I can just do the exact same thing I just did go all the way down to my other side go over my Knock that already has a string on it

slide it all the way down my bow as long as I've made this wider and the widest part of my bow those slide all the way back down on to the limb right where it was now it has whatever twist I put into it

announce me to be a little short of string okay so for the future so I don't have to mess around the string anymore I make this top loop big enough to slide up and down my boat so I can twist it change its tension put it right back on without having to take the bottom off because what happens is when you take the bottom off all that twisting you put in comes undone because there's all this tension going to the bottom of the string so I can keep this on here twist it make all that tension and string and then just slide it right back on the bow and the problem all right so it's string it up and see how the new string works out

now this is hard make a hard time I mean you gotta fight sometimes you lose the battle to get it up there yeah it feels about right awesome awesome now let's see where I'm braced my time

whose first fitting the string boom one fist I'll take that all day take that all day nice black bank line string full of strand so now I have a little extra string on here so I'm gonna just trim it down a little bit I don't like to cut it off all the way so I have slowed up something to play with okay so I'm gonna just cut that off my more

to give myself maybe 10 inches all right it's done new strength well pretty happy with those shots the string clinic forms just a quickie cookie string you can make really easy to pawn lines one larger than the other preciate you views Tom see spot you guys in the next vid take care