Have you used fishing leader for serving?

What weight? Any tricks?

I bought a B50 with "standard" serving that turns out to be too skinny for any of my arrow nocks. I'm thinking to re-serve using fishing leader...I've heard that works.

Yes it works but its Old School years ago used it don't like it anymore with skinny strings looks weird to me. 40 pound test old big nocks new age now. Slick is trick.

I've been thinking to try some new-generation dental floss. The stuff that is basically Gore-tex/Teflon-coated and so slick that I have to use twice as much to get enough friction to keep it from sliding off my fingers when I try to use it.

Seems like that would let go of an arrow very cleanly indeed!

GF,

IMHO - I doubt the floss would hold it's lay as serving, and therefore fail, in it's primary purpose, to protect the string.

Fishing leader is the same stuff as the monofilament serving that used to be common, especially for compound bows. Its very slick and durable but, in my experience, a bit hard to serve and prone to slip after a few months.

I hate mono-filament. I used it for awhile back in the 70's but twice it broke while I was shooting, and when it does...it unravels like a Slinky. With #4 nylon, or some of the new softer materials, a broken serving can simply be retied by hand without losing the tension it was put on with. You can try it...it works fine as long as it holds, but it does have a different feel as well. It's an option like anything else, but there is a reason it's not used as much anymore. 8^)

Amen to what George said.

I wonder is some of the newer braided fishing lines like the spyderwire type would work? If so what pound test would be a good starting point?

I'm with Bowbaker used it for several years, and you don't need the expensive stuff. Use the cheep braided squiding line, and it lasts forever.

Bob

Why not just buy some thicker bowstring serving from 3 Rivers?

I've had good success with spyderwire over the years in a number of different serving applications. I've had good success using it for serving those areas of compound strings and cables that go around cams and modules with narrow grooves.

It's durable, abrasion resistant, and is readily available in different thicknesses at just about any Walmart.

I've been told by a chemist friend of mine that it's characteristics are very similar to Halo, but I've never substantiated that.

I built a string with spider wire a couple months ago just to do it. It was a bit skinnier than planned but made a serviceable string. It needs a very sticky wax for a Flemish splice.

It won't be a go to material. Just did it to see if it could be used in a pinch.

Anything will work. I've used monofilament fishing line (comes in cool colors) braided casting line, bowstring material, carpet thread, the new braided fishing lines as mentioned above, single strand floss, single strand yarn (makes a nice soft serving that works well if you don't want to use a tab or glove). Serving material isn't anything special.

When I started in archery, Black Mono was all I was aware of. Even then I was using braided fishing line because like George said when it pops you are done until you can re serve. It will spring unwound full length. There is no tying off to finish a hunt.Get the right diameter of either one to fit your nocks and it will work though.I put about a dozen wraps on the string and try the nock. Then go up or down in size as needed.>>--> Ken

fwiw I simply took off the lovely skinny mystery serving that came from some string source (not 60X) and replaced it with .14 dacron (nylon?) that I bought ten years ago. Perfection.

...btw, it was fun (after an hour or two of re-learning via Youtube) re-serving that string. Thank goodness I hadn't tossed the cheapo serving gizmo with the Brownell .014 #4 I found in my archery junque box :-)

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