To Repair or Replace Your Bowstring... How to Know!

So many questions on how do I know when I need to replace my stringing cable. So there's a couple things. Wear like that is dangerously close to needing that replacement. I'm gonna see if I can bring this thing back to life. This string was on top of a case and that's all vibration and wear and tear. And you can see it's fuzzing up horribly. However, there aren't any loose strands coming off. So when you look at when does a string or cable need to be replaced, anytime there's an actual strand coming off, if it's been cut that much, if you've touched it with a broadhead, if it's vibrated on something, actually here on my cable, I have kind of that same type of wear and tear. It's got a little bit of fuzzing, but with a little bit of this wax and rubbing it in, it brought it back to life a little bit. So luckily I don't have to replace that cable. But the other thing to keep in mind, if you have a strand loose, chuck it. If you have a serving come undone, that can be replaced. However, if the servings are honestly down by your yokes, anytime you have yoke serving or yoke wear, I would replace it just because that's kind of a area where the amount of strands are split in half. So there's load on equal portions. So any type of abrasion or cut there, nix it. Honestly, if you have center serving separation and a lot of strings with a factory serving, a lot of strings will slowly move. And this happens a lot because people or shops use pre-cut D-loops and they crimp them into place and it just separates that serving automatically and that'll start to slide. Replacing a serving isn't a problem. However, if you have serving slippage and historically you have a peep that starts to rotate or rotates mid-pull, honestly, those are both great reasons to get rid of that string. You don't wanna have peep rotation. Peep rotation's showing you an imbalance in the string, whereas just a simple serving slip or serving movement, that isn't showing you that the string is compromised. It's just showing you that the string isn't properly balanced or put together properly. So I'm gonna try to see how far we can get here with this thing. This was about as excessive of wear as I would ever allow on my personal setup. And I just put a little bit of wax on there. I'm gonna go ahead and just kinda strip this to get a feel for, yeah, and you can see here, I'm trying to strip it to relieve some of my color or get some of my color back. There's a lot of dirt and grime. And sometimes when that dust, that little fine dust on trips gets onto your string and then is vibrating, it'll really wear it down. So this, you can see here, it's not cleaning up perfectly. It certainly will get me through the rest of the year, but because of the abrasion that was on that string, I'm able to get by, but at the end of the year, I'm probably gonna have to get a new string. So those are the things to keep in mind, whether to trust it or chuck it.