Whats the best stringer for a 50's style recurve with skinny tips?

I have had a tone and the one I always go back to is the selway!

Webster is the best I've ever used. Look it up.

Selway longbow stringer.

Black widow Tip to tip stringer

Black widow Tip to tip stringer

I like any tip to tip. If one of the pockets is too deep stuff some paper in the bottom of it. The other type bends one limb much farther and sometimes slips a bit. I just don't like em.

I use a Selway and it's great.

I made my own with a little para cord and leather. I'm a cheapo I guess!

this ankle strap?

I use a Black Widow and a Webster, both great stringers and easy to use.

I use a Black Widow and a Webster, both great stringers and easy to use.

The Webster is my favorite but it depends upon the tips and the draw weight. If the tips fit fine and its a heavy bow, the webster is much easier. On lower poundage bows, the standard cup on one end and sliding loop on the other works fine for me.

Selway...used it on a hundred different bows

Webster. I always used Black Widow with pockets until one bow had too small of tips.

Selway

Someday, I'm going to have a Selway lover prove it's me and not the stringer by using mine to string a bow. I can't even string a 30 pound bow with the pile of junk. It has to be me.

Joe

X2 plenty coups Thunderhorn all day

The one with the long deep black canvas pocket on one end.

Selway for me

Thunderhorn no doubt!!!

Selway. And it IS you.

Selway and thunderhorn are good.

I'll have to check on the Webster and Thunderhorn apparently but my Selway is good for any length and weights up to 63# so far.

Haven't twisted a limb yet 8>]

Bobby

Hi I use the Shooting Star Universal Bow Stringer it has a heavy pocket. If you have pointy tips the Shooting Star Universal Bow Stringer is the way to go

The Webster is the best I have seen.

Wall mounted boat rollers is the best. It's just not portable.

"Wall mounted boat rollers is the best. It's just not portable." x2

Selway works great and for your lil bow area at home...X3 on setups like the above 2 stated or like setups.

Selway..easy to use

Not an attempt to Hi-jack thread but I find that most "stringers" regardless of type are simply not long enough to accommodate bows in the 69 or longer inch category. Or it could be that my arms aren't long enough.

Its easy nuff to swap in a longer paracord

I really like my Selway

Selway all the way

Two kitchen chairs set facing each other..Two saw horses..Lay a towel on them place your bow on them where the tips won't slide down between them then push down on the limbs until you can slip the string on..This method has been used for years..They even made bow stringers based on this same principle which Archery companies used to sell...Much eaisier than wresting with those other things.

Hi,

I do not like sringers with round rope. As a matter of fact, I have two stringers that I changed the rope to flat nylon material out of tie downs. I have attatched the leather tip ends to the nylon flat material with small bolts and large washers. I walk barefoot as much as I can and the flat material is just easier on my feet - plus I can roll the whole unit up in a roll, which makes it way easier when you set up the stringer for use.

shoot straight - skookum bow

Selway.

I have 6 stringers I think now have no ideas what their names are either and if I can't use one I go to next and most of the time I end up with the rubber block on the limb to string. Skinny tips are hard no matter what stringer I have used that I have.

Especially with my Drakes that are real narrow.

selway

Oldbow...your method is not practical if I want to unstring and restring my bow at the range to adjust brace height, while tuning.

Selway is the best so far for me.

Oldbow...your method is not practical if I want to unstring and restring my bow at the range to adjust brace height, while tuning.

Selway is the best so far for me.

Oldbow...your method is not practical if I want to unstring and restring my bow at the range to adjust brace height, while tuning.

Selway is the best so far for me.

Sorry for three posts

I wish I hadn't listened to all the people who told me to get a Selway. Talk about a pile of junk! If you have any sort of lower back injury at all, you can't use one. I can't get one to budge on a 30 pound bow! Just an all around crappy design- unless you're a member of the great ape family.

Joe

There were several, old time bowstringers back in the day which were better than some of these new models...Jack Howard sold a good one he advertised in his Bowhunters catalog..Someone have a picture of Jack's bowstringer they can post?

I have a few different style stringers but this one is my favorite. I got this stringer back in 1974 when my Dad bought me my 1974 Bear Grizzly. I've used it on different recurve bows I've owned through the years and never had a problem. I never had a limb slip out of it like some of my newer ones. It's been so long I can't remember who made it, properly Bear Archery.

Really frisky?

I use mine on 30# to 63# longbows and recurves never had an issue Seems like alot of others here use selways to get it done also Might be operator error : )

Have several but my favorite by far is a Black Widow stringer.

Webster.

Agree with Frisky about gawdawful Selways. They're risky...right Frisky ?

jk- Selway's really do suck, but I still think it's something I'm doing wrong. Probably too short of string length. Maybe that's why I can't get the limbs to budge? Maybe not, because I've complained for years and nobody has ever told me what I'm doing wrong.

Kodiak- I think you have a Ben Pearson stringer. I got mine in 73', and it looks like yours but has a black cord.

Joe

The ankle strap,you'll find them on the Kingfisher bow Web site.

There. Now we know exactly which is the "best" per the original poster's request. LOL Like every thread about the "best" anything. Having said that, in my 50+ years of bow shooting, I received the Safe Way stringer pictured above on Bowaholic's post. That's custom bowyer Ben Graham demonstrating it. I have never had a stringer that I felt was safer or easier to use on a recurve.

So then it's unanimous. Just like every other Leatherwall question. Guess you should try a few eh?

George, I have and have hated my Selway for a decade-plus.

Thank goodness for this LW thread.

Never occurred to me that there actually were intelligent alternatives because that was the only thing I happened to find in stores or online.

Luck of the draw, I guess.

I'm going to modify/butcher my Selway with a proper leather cup to replace that absurd rubberoid thing. Will look like Black Widow's.

Hard to imagine a more dangerous design than Selway's.

I gotta go with Frisky on this. After all he hoop law of the Selway stringer I had to have one. NEVER did like it or feel remotely comfortable using it. I use one like kodiaktd uses and had it so long I don't know who made it. Leather tips finally gave away and I made new ones several years back. Still use it. I make my own bows and have always specifically made the top tip longer just for this stringer. BUT the stringer works great on any other bow I've tried too.

I like the E W Bateman stringer, similar to the old Bear Archery stringers.

I like the Bateman too. It works great on small tips.

Joe

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