BCY B55 Polyester Bowstring Material Review

I will buy this product again

old favorite good product

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Beginner Bowyer love it

Easy to use wonderful stuff i have had no problems with it first ever bow string I made its great

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Nice quality.

Works great along with the Browning serving thread.

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Negative experience with B55 for older recurve

I bought a spool of B55 hoping, per the BCY literature, to add a few FPS to my older non-fast-flight-ready recurve. BCY made it clear that it worked with ALL recurves, so I felt confident it would be ok. I made a string with B55, the product feels very much like B50 when making strings, it comes pre-waxed, the colors are good for traditional archery. However the string I made didn't… read more work at all with the older recurve for which I had made it. The B55 string had almost no give and a huge amount of vibrations. The bow was a Ben Pearson Lord Mercury, with the mercury capsules still intact, so it's normally a bow that is extremely well dampened and very forgiving, but with the B55 I felt I was shooting a longbow, not a recurve, with tremendous hand-shock and vibrations. I stopped after about 6 shots because I was seriously worried about damaging my bow. Too bad, I really wanted to get a bit more speed. BCY says that B55 is fully compatible with ALL recurves, but that was definitely not my experience, unfortunately.

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My husband hated this bowstring material

He was unable to make a decent bowstring because it kept stretching.

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Great String

This is wonderful material for building a bowstring with!!

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So far so good

I recently started making my own Flemish twist strings for my recurves. There has been a little learning curve as how to accommodate for stretch, but this is due to my inexperience not the products quality. I've found it to be easy to work with quiet shooting and makes a good looking string! I'm pleased with it and will definitely buy more as needed.

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I would buy this product again and again.

Great product. Made my own flemish loop with this stuff and it came out great. Would recommend having extra wax. A+ so far.

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Slow

I tried this as a replacement for Brownell Dacron, using 16 strands for my 60# & 45# Elm/glass longbows. I found that even pre-stressed endless loop strings had more stretch than the old dacron, (though I won't dare to test theese old worn ones now) A 12-strand FastFlite string cast an 520 gn arrow a full 50 fps faster(!)

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Great for a new string maker

Used many strings in 35 years of shooting. Now making them gets me exactly what I want. This material is so affordable, you wonder why you should buy a made string. Very strong and not nearly as stretchy as B50. Some say it stretches and I don't get it. 1st string I made, I used a recipe of another and shortened the length to accommodate the stretch. I was very surprised after… read more a week on a stretcher, It had only moved about 3/8" and has held very close to that since. The stretch is very acceptable to me and easy to compensate during the building process. I found with 14 strands and Diamondback .018 serving, I get the magical .110 ish zone for perfect nock tension. This was the hardest part to figure out in string making. With X amount of strands, what serving Diameter do you use to get the .110 serving thickness. No one wants to say it as there are a few variables. Follow the above and you will be in the zone from what I experienced. All in all, you can use the stronger FF products with even less stretch but at a higher price. For the beginner, I can make a lot of string with this product and still have acceptable stretch.

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