Making the Flemish Bow String in the Bush Part 2

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you can hold this bite in your hands and just move your fingers down over the top of it as you twist it like I'm doing right now and it won't come undone on you this stuff waxed anyway so it stays together pretty good when you're making these forming these getting they form these loops let's see what we got for a loop now remember we need this loop to be bigger than the other one and it is alright but we need something that's gonna slide down the limb of a recurve about five inches or six inches for bray sight

so i'm gonna go just a couple of more turns on this thing not too many more just a couple more and then we're gonna flip it over just like we did the first time and match our opposites up and start making our loop okay

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so I'm gonna go down here match my opposites up start with one side roll it toward me just like I did with the other mesh them together all the way down the tag in here now remember this bow string will stretch okay so if it's a little bit shorter than you wanted it to begin with it's probably not gonna be that big of a deal you can untwist it a little bit on the bow once you have the Flemish done you can untwist it a little bit on the bow and then you can let it stretch out you're not gonna want to shoot a bow after you put a string on it for about a 6 or 8 hours you know I usually let him sit overnight and let the string stretch and then readjust my brace ID on the bow after my string is stretched out by twisting it up or down to adjust it to the brace I don't want and then you won't have to adjust it anymore after that it'll pretty much stay where it's at so let me get these two melded together and we'll go to the next step all right so when we're done this is what we got you can see the multicolored camouflage and when I pull against this you've actually made a self tightening string which is why they call it a Flemish string and it's twisted and you can twist it around tighter or looser to adjust your brace height now before I go to the trouble of serving this string which is the serving is where you put the arrow you knock your arrow helps you from keep from wearing out your string I want to measure this because it looks a little short to me if it's only 39 inches or something I'm not gonna worry too much about it because it's gonna stretch anyway but I want to get my machete out real quick and measure see what I got okay it's actually about 42 inches that's okay because we can twist this this thing's not twisted hardly at all and we can twist this thing way down it's a little better to have them just a little bit long than to have them short we can twist this down just like I'm doing from either end and you can see that's twisting down and that'll be perfect on his boat and it'll look really nice for camouflage drink now let's talk about serving this bad boy okay now because I don't have a bow I have to simulate stretching this string out to put a serving on it so I've just picked two branches between a fallen tree here and I just went through and made a very simple half hitch with a toggle on this side to stretch it out came around this side with another toggle and just hooked it on the tree by a fork so it won't come undone and now I can tug on that's pretty good and it's not gonna move now we can serve this string okay guys I got this camera well I think you can see everything real good got my serving jig hanging up here on the limb so what we've got now is what we're gonna do is we want to serve probably that much of the string there abouts in the middle somewhere so I'm gonna start by just laying the string as much as I want hanging out right here I'm just going to tag that right there for now and hold on to it with this finger and then all I'm gonna do is I'm gonna start wrapping this up over the top and I just want to get a few starter wraps to begin with on here and keep them tight and not overlap them tighten up my jig just a little bit here cuz she's a little bit loose and then I'll bring it up towards the string here and wrap it around a couple more times make sure I'm going the right direction with it here that's important so it doesn't want to ride the other way on you okay now I'm gonna tighten this up my starter loops stretch this out just a little bit tighten this up together just like that then I'm gonna pull it up to the string and there's a groove in there you can see for the string and I'll bring it up to the string and then I'll start just flipping it over the string and it will self wind itself now there's ways to do this a whole lot faster if you've got this on bow you can actually bounce the string up and down on a bow and this jig will self-winding you can do this chill right here in about 30 seconds or less this is gonna take a few minutes because I'm gonna wrap this thing by hand but it's okay you can do it this way too this is a field expedient way to do it in the wild and you could use this you know you don't have to have a jig for this necessarily you could wrap this just off cordage by hand and it's not a problem that you always want to serve a bow string so that you have an area where you're gonna be knocking your arrow and pulling on it with your glove or whatever that you're not going to be wearing against the string itself that you made I'm gonna unwrap this string just a little bit because it tends to wrap around the string as you're going and keep it fairly straight out here and just keep on wrapping until I get this thing as long as I want it and then I'll show you how to tie it off [Applause]

okay once you've got that serving eight or ten inches long and that's two-fifths for me

that's plenty long and it's in the middle of the string and that's where I want it so what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to take this and I'm gonna form a loop right here you just give myself a little bit of a tag and then I'm going to continue to wrap this a few more times rec that's holding onto this string while you're doing it but after you wrap it two or three times you won't have that problem and I usually take about eight or ten more wraps holding that loop in my fingers just like I am right there

so when I'm done well I've got is hold this down a little bit wind up the runway on me that's okay I wanted it back up this way by hand they'll be fine okay so what I've got is I've got a string sticking out down here and I've got about eight or ten wraps over top of it and I've got a loop right here but now what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this string here I'm gonna cut it off real quick but I've got to kind of hold on to it after the fact but I don't want to let it go I'm just gonna hang my jig back up here on this branch for a minute and hold onto this piece of string

now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put this through my loop just like this and draw it down tight and then take this tag in pull that loop tight and what I want to do is I want to pull that string back through just like that then they have to go all the way through I thought let's pull through a few of the loops then all I'm gonna do is I'm gonna get rid of those tags very carefully just like that and that and now I have a served and finished beau stirring okay so I've taken my bowstring off of the tree now and you can see this is where we served it right here and that makes it pretty stiff right there where you serve that and you can see that it twists all by itself and when you put your fingers through that and put it on the bow will simulate a bow we stretch it out you can see that it's a self tightener it twists in the opposite directions on both ends so that it keeps it tight all the time and that's what you want like I said we made this camouflage you can see kind of what that looks like I'll put it up close to the camera so you can see it and this is Ken's posturing and I'm just going to fold it down over the serving here just like this and if you're going to make an extra bowstring that's the way you carry it just like that in your bag or your pack or whatever I usually carry at least one extra bowstring for my bow just in case whenever I'm out bow hunting in my quiver and there you go that's the way you make a serve Flemish bowstring without a jig off the cuff in the bush

well hope you guys enjoyed this short segment today on how to make the Flemish bowstring it's pretty simple if you got any questions you can send me an email at wilderness Outfitters archery on yahoo.com the meantime I appreciate your support I thank all my fans on Facebook as well as YouTube the support they've given me over the last almost two years and I'm Dave Canterbury wilderness Outfitters archery over the Pathfinder school I look forward to continuing these video series for you thank you very much one piece of information I wanted to give you guys real quick somebody asked me a question yesterday on the internet I found it hard that nobody else had ever noticed this before said anything about it and maybe people just assumed that I was totally ambidextrous when they saw these videos and I am for the most part ambidextrous but somebody asked me yesterday on one of my videos why do I carry my knife on my weak side all the time I'm left-handed that's pretty much common knowledge now but I always carry my knife on the right side except my Tom Browne tracker I custom-made a sheath for it that's left-handed carry but the reason I generally don't mind carrying knives on the right side is because I try to practice things as they would be in a real-life situation and if I go into the woods for a long period of time before wilderness self-reliance situation we talked before the two sighted the two firearms that I would carry would be a Ruger or Remington 22 rifle semi-automatic and at one at P 22 pistol okay Smith & Wesson P 22 pistol and I carry that on the left side because I'm left-handed and I shoot left-handed so for me to carry a knife on the left side and always reach to the left side for a knife every time I want my knife would mess me up in a real-life situation because in a real-life situation there's not going to be a knife on the left side there's gonna be a Scion so that's why I always carry my knife on the weak side just a little piece of information for you guys so you understand why the Pathfinder does what he does