What Do You Make of This? (Serving)

[tman74]

I had my string served at a local shop and within a handful of shots I noticed this little stray appear. It's difficult to tell in the pic but it's not unravelling (yet ) , however there's an 1/8" gap where the string is visable.



Cause for concern, or hunt away this fall? Thanks!

[georgiaboy]

I would carry it back & have them reserve the string.
I wouldn't want to start the season with my serving looking like that...one man's opinion.
The best advice i can give you is to go on Boo's website & learn how to build your own serving jig and reserve your strings yourself.
It's not to hard, the back serve was the tricky part for me but after a few try's even i got the hang of it!!

[Boo]

I would carry it back & have them reserve the string.
I wouldn't want to start the season with my serving looking like that...one man's opinion.
The best advice i can give you is to go on Boo's website & learn how to build your own serving jig and reserve your strings yourself.
It's not to hard, the back serve was the tricky part for me but after a few try's even i got the hang of it!!

You got that right!

[vixenmaster]

Yo it doesn't look like yer servin, it looks more like a strand of yer string ? I say that as its white servin is black, unless they got an extra piece of material in there

[newbie]

I would carry it back & have them reserve the string.
I wouldn't want to start the season with my serving looking like that...one man's opinion.
The best advice i can give you is to go on Boo's website & learn how to build your own serving jig and reserve your strings yourself.
It's not to hard, the back serve was the tricky part for me but after a few try's even i got the hang of it!!

I agree, I just built one of Don's metal string jigs and figure I can't do any worse then most shops around by evidence of your serving. Plus brother inlaw is making some inserts to slip in top of jig to use the jig as a gun vise.
Mike

[rej]

X2 for all comments this thread. Took me 10 min. to make Don's jig. While I wait for the correct serving tool to arrive I put some heavy twine in jig and use some 100 lb. braided fish line to practice the technique, especially the backserve.

[wabi]

There are a couple ways to finish the serving off. One is to "back-wrap" the serving (like Boo does), and another is to wrap the final few turns of the serving over a "loop" of serving material and pull the tag end back under the last few wraps.

Could be they used a piece of white material (serving or line) to wrap over and pull the tag end of the serving back through (and it broke on them). I've had that happen a few times.

[tman74]

Thanks for the replies folks. I won't be going back to that shop anytime soon and will pop on a spare string for the time being.

[Dash]

Over here some of the shops are not up to scratch with crossbow serving either as they do so few of them. They serve them just like a vertical bow and serving generally ends up seperating. You can get away with a lot more on a low poundage vertical bow than a crossbow. The equinox at 225lbs and with a very acute angle around the trigger claws needs a quality serving job done or it will see a problem very quickly.

[joe171]

This may be a little O/T
But i bought a half dozen Excal strings in Hamilton On 4 of these string didn`t give me 50 shots befor the serving went for a crap LOL
I called Excalibur this morning really nice people to deal with problem solved 2 minuets gave me a RA number for replacement of the bow strings no questions asked WOW

Sorry my point call Excal

But I built Don`s jig yesterday

Joe