How to Make a Bowstring : Page 384

I might suggest that 21/2 inches thin finishing nails, cutdown to 1 1/2 inches long and with the cut ends smoothed up,make good nails for this board.

Go to your shoemaker and get a 4 ounce ball of Barbour'sNo. 12 shoemaker's thread. This is a rather fuzzy white threadand will test about 6 pounds. It is packed in a round, red boxwith the end of the thread coming out of a hole in the lid.Do not let them sell you the No. 12 twisted thread which isput up in one pound cones. Go to your sporting goods dealerand get a cake of bowstring wax and a spool of 6 thread,

white, cutty hunk fishing line. This is all the materials youneed.