About Us
Gem County Archery strings are the finest pre-stretched handmade strings you can get for your bow. Owner Robert Martin makes all bow strings.
Robert has been hunting with a bow and competing in 3-D tournaments for over 17 years. When strings are made by one person, each string is made with the same great attention to each spin of the serving tool.
All strings are pre-stretched, and then serving is applied. Each string has the serving locked in, so there is little or no serving movement. Center serving is done in the same manner; however, there will be a small gap at the end where the serving is locked in--this is normal.
All strings are from BCY material. They are servered under tension with a servering machine that has been able to keep up 300 pounds of pressure on the strings while it's being served. If needed, Gem County Archery has also developed a string stretching machine. With this machine, strings or cables can be put under 530 pounds of pressure, with digital readout to let you know how much pressure is dropping due to stretch. Our strings and cables do not stretch with this new stretching technique that we use.
Gem County Archery standard colors are green/black. We also have BCY two-color combos in various colors that BCY offers. The standard two-color combo we use is brown/black.
Choosing Your Bow Strings
8125 is a smaller diameter for higher speed and good for two color strings. The standard is 18 strands.
450+ is a good material for cables or strings. No creep standard is 12 strands.
452 is half the diameter of 450+. No-creep standard is 22 strands.
Materials
Gem County Archery only uses 450+, 452, and 8125.
End serving is #2D; center serving is #62XS.
Halo is available (by special request only) on end serving and center.
Colors
8125: Black, red, blue, yellow, OD green, dark brown, light brown,purple, and green. Two-color combinations: black/green, black/yellow, black/red, and black/brown.
450+: Black, red, blue, and purple or any two-color combination of these colors.
452: Black or brown/black two-color combo.
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