Angel Majesty 777 - on my bows gives a lovely tight and snappy shot but quieter than other Majesty variants (and comes in yellow). No wax, so easy to work with and makes lovely smooth round strings.

Angel Majesty serving - in the UK cheaper than Halo, gives a smoother finish too. Bombproof to boot. And once you get the nock fit right it stays right. Usually use 0.015” on the loops and 0.021” on centre.

Tried DY97 in 1997. Preferred original Dynaflight personally. If Majesty didn’t exist 8125 is my second choice.

Ymmv

Stretch

 

Happly to see someone else using Angel Majesty 777. No one else at my club uses it but I think it is great. The Angel Majesty string material was a bit harsh/loud and I think that turned off the others in my club to Angel string material. (Personally don’t care if my bow is loud) And I drank the Angel kool-Aid so I think their serving is the best too.

Cheers,

 

At my shooting level and with the super light limbs I'm still using, almost anything will work fine for me.

That said, my go to for a really good recurve string is BCY Dynaflite 97. It seems to give a "firmness" on the shot but is also soft enough to not really whack the bow when it comes to brace height like blended compound materials like 452X.

The best serving available period is Angel Majesty, but Halo is also a very good serving for the ends. AM is the best you can do for center serving, with Halo a slightly distant second.

I have had good results with the older BCY X too, even though it's a Vectran blend. But Dynaflite is cheaper and works just as well...

lee.

 

8190 string material served with 62XS serving. Been using it for years and have no desire to change. Plus, I have enough of each to make more strings than I can count.

 

Ted -

I use D97, it's cheap and it works well. It's also a little softer than a lot of the other "more expensive" types. Softer means less shock on the bow and on me.

For servings, I still use #4 Nylon. Same reasons as above. I've used monofilament in the distant past, and it was never worth the hassle.

And I'll add that most of the reasons that people give for using the more expensive stuff, like durability, roundness and smoothness don't really hold any water, but more expensive is better, right?

Viper1 out.

 

And I'll add that most of the reasons that people give for using the more expensive stuff, like durability, roundness and smoothness don't really hold any water, but more expensive is better, right?

Viper1 out.

It actually does turn out to be critical on the compound, where you have cables under literally 100's of lbs of tension working around sharp cam track corners on the shot and so forth, but I agree on the recurve bow, string and serving material design isn't that big of a deal.

I've used good old BCY 3D serving for the ends of recurve strings and it also holds up very well, even around the semi sharp corners up at the limb tips.

The serving just needs to protect the string material at the ends and that's pretty much all you need. As for separation, even a pure Dyneema braid or "twisted pair" like the aforementioned Halo, 3D, etc., will be well sufficient for a normal limb tip with no sharp edges, etc....

The Big Money generally only needs to be spent when making compound strings and cables, so fortunately over here on the recurve or longbow, we don't really need that level of high technology in our materials unless we just want it....

lee.

 

tried 777, BCYX, 8190F, all didn't work for me.

8125G wrapped in Halo both end and middle for me. Angel serving is good, but i had halo. if it ain't broke don't fix it.

 

lee -

That's kinda the point. We seem to forget that (for recurves) strings are toasters, they either work or don't.

Viper1 out.

 

yep, that's one of the nicest things about shooting what's basically just a stick with a string on it .

In fact, it's easier to list materials that don't work that well than the ones that do. And you have to go to pretty egregiously improperly made strings to even do that, such as 12 strands of 452X or something along those lines.

The other would be, maybe, something like an all Dacron string material with a basic Polyester serving on a modern recurve which will give a kind of a spongy response on the shot. Don't ask me why I know about this one, btw.

I do admit that I do my servings on recurve strings using compound construction techniques, though, because I do find that lessens the probability of something going wrong on the ends, and it does make for a very stable string as long as it's built to the correct length to begin with.

But that's really it. Tearing one's hair over the little things of string making is generally only a thing over on the compound bow.....

lee.

 

D97 with Crown Center for the center serving and Diamondback for the end loops. I sometimes use small diameter Crown Center for the end loops but like the look of Diamondback.

 

When are we going to move to fine steel cable instead of current string materials? Cheaper to make - would imaging limbs would have to be strengthened to account for lack to stretch.

 

"Spectra Fiber is an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) fiber that is stronger and lighter than other ingredient fibers. It is 15 times stronger than steel, 30% stronger than aramid and lighter than most natural, synthetic and composite fibers."

 

I have an older bow, and the string has metal serving instead of nylon. Is that not common anymore? This string has lasted 6 years of pretty intense shooting. And the serving is like new. It’s on a 2006 browning rage.

 

Do you have a picture of the metal serving? Is it on the string or the cables? Or do you mean metal speed nocks? I can't think of any serving materials available for sale in 2006 (or earlier or later) that contain any metal.

 

Angel 777 with halo center

 

BCY D97 or 8125 and BCY Halo serving for center and 62x or 3D for ends.
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