String Theory

I wanted to teach myself to make a Flemish string for my bow. I thought it would be easy I had seen it done before. I built a jig that would free me from the measuring of individual strands and cutting them to the proper lengths allowing for an even stagger of strand ends in the bundles. That was the hard part, I thought, but I was wrong.

It turns out that learning the technique of twisting string has to be learnt twice, once by the brain and later stumblingly, by the hands. Like plucking a difficult series of notes, knowing can only come to you by doing.