Simple Method to Serve a Bow String

Hey everybody, this is Nick, the Backyard Doyer. Today, like I promised you, I'm going to show you how to serve a string using the string server we made the other day. This is one of my red oak longbows, so I'm just going to use this and show you how to do a center serving. So what you want to do is you want to pick a space, I mean it really depends on you how long you want your serving to be. I usually go from where the arrow rests, and I usually go about three to four inches on either side. So what you want to do is you want to start at the top, you want to take some thread out of your server, and you want to lay it down with a string like this. So then what you want to do is you want to actually bring your server up and around, and then you want to do this fairly loose, you want to do this a couple times, and we're going in this direction. So you just bring it up and over, up and over. So now, if you look, you can see it's all under there, right there. So you just want to pull it tight, and then you want to keep going. And now what you can do is you bring the server up to the string itself, and just tighten your end there, and you see how nice that looks. And so what you want to just do is you want to just keep going, and you want to keep the tension fairly tight, where you can kind of still pull it out, where it's going to give you that nice tight serving. Now I prefer to just use this the way it is. There's some people who do like a high-speed twisting, but with this type of server, it's a lot easier just to do this. So once you've gotten about a quarter to a half an inch, I like to pull the string back, and then just continue serving, making sure that everything is nice and tight. So you just want to keep it moving. Okay, so now that you've got near the end, you just want to keep going until you've got maybe about a quarter inch left that you need to serve. So now what you want to do is you want to actually pull out maybe 10 inches to a foot of your extra string, and then you want to cut that. Okay, so now what we're going to do is something called a back serve. Now that you have your 10 inches of string, what you want to do is you want to make a little loop here, and then you want to bring the end of your string up and in, into your loop. And you want to do this as if you're serving towards the string here. Okay, let me get that, okay. Okay, so now that that's set, you just want to do that about 5 or 6 times, so 3, 4, 5, 6. Okay, so now what you want to do is you want to take this loose end and bring it up over here. Now what you want to do is you want to take this loop here and actually bring it down, and then come around, and you want to make it tight on this side, and you're basically taking these loops and transferring them to the other side. Do that, and bring it in, bring that down, bring that down. Now that you have this little loop, take the end of your string here, and you just want to pull it through slightly, and then you want to make sure everything's all set up and then you just pull it tight, just pull it real tight, and there you go. So then what you do is you just take a knife, hold it flush to the string, trim it there, and then trim it up here, and there it is. So once you've trimmed your ends, that's it, your serving's done. So thank you for watching my video, bye.