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Old 09-02-2003 | 08:16 PM
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Default RE: How often to you wax your bow string?

Actually you would be surprised to find out that professinal string builders DON' T reccomend waxing a string very often,if at all.As a matter of fact,the majority will remove a certain amount of wax before buildind a string.


So the answer is a resounding,YES,a string can be waxed too much.You can wax the cables more than the string but a string needs very little waxing and too much can actually affect accuracy.The main reason most wax a string is so it doesn' t start to fray,but the fraying doesn' t hurt the string.I wax my string VERY LIGHTLY about 2 times a year so the occasional rain showers in a 3-d tournament doesn' t soak into the string.My string builder frowns on me doing it this much but I can' t help myself.And no,he doesn' t frown because he want to sell me a new string once a year.He said I could leave it alone for about 3 years before I need to replace it.That is with a lot of shooting.



This should get a response,as it goes totally against the grain of what the vast majority believe.[:-]
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