Bowstring

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Bowstring
Detailed
Release	25 March 2002 (Update)
Members	No
Members	No
Quest item	No
Quest item	No
Tradeable	Yes
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	No
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Unknown
Disassembly	Unknown
Value	Unknown
Value	Unknown
High Alchemy	60 coins
High Alchemy	60 coins
Low Alchemy	40 coins
Low Alchemy	40 coins
Destroy	Drop
On death	Unknown
On death	Unknown
On death	Unknown
Exchange	383 coins (info)
Buy limit	10,000
Weight	0 kg
Examine	I need a bow stave to attach this to.
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Bowstring is used in the Fletching skill to create bows. It is created by using flax with a spinning wheel, which requires level 1 Crafting and grants a player 15 Crafting experience.

In Dungeoneering, bowstrings are purchased from the smuggler.

A full load of 28 flax will generate 420 Crafting experience (15 x 28). It takes about 50 seconds to spin a full inventory of flax. It takes approximately one minute and fifteen seconds (1:15) to do a load of flax in Lumbridge. So you can do 48 loads per hour, which means you can do about 20,160 xp per hour, if you stay at a constant rate.

Historically, the only reasonable place for anyone to spin flax into bowstrings was Seers' Village, however with the addition of the bank at the top of Lumbridge Castle, it became on par with, or slightly better than, Seers' Village, but only if you pre-picked the flax and placed it in your bank, otherwise it would be extremely counterproductive because Seers' Village is the most financially efficient place to pick and spin all at once. Later on, an even better spinning wheel was added, this time on Neitiznot. While technically further from a bank than Lumbridge, travelling to the bank in Neitiznot does not require climbing any stairs, thus cutting down clicking times and increasing the efficiency of spinning. In order to use the spinning wheel, players must have started The Fremennik Isles quest and have reached the part where they are able to go to Neitiznot. Currently, it is also possible to pick flax from the field in Taverley and deposit bowstrings at the bank counter at the small gnome tree in Burthorpe, as there is a spinning wheel along the path between the two.

For players who have not yet started The Fremennik Isles, another option is to use the spinning wheel in Seers' Village while wearing a Seers' headband 2, the reward from the Seers' Village Tasks, which increases the rate at which you spin flax.

Spinning flax into bowstrings is a good way for players with low skills to make money. Because of this, bowstrings were commonly made by macroers, as they can easily be sold in bulk and for fairly good profits. Therefore, it used to be common to see macros in Seers' Village picking flax in the field, and spinning them into bowstrings at the spinning wheel at Seers' Village.

Obtaining

Dropping monsters

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Spiritual ranger	115; 118; 122; 127	7 (noted)	Common
Lesser reborn ranger	87	2 (noted)	Uncommon
Zamorak ranger	81	10	Uncommon
Elite dark ranger	79	1 (noted)	Uncommon

Other

Bowstrings can sometimes be found inside barrels. Noted bowstrings are a possible reward to choose from in Temple Trekking. An easy way to obtain a fair amount of bowstrings.

Calculator

Method	Profit/Bowstring	GP/XP
Picking Flax	383	25.5
Buying Flax	287	19.1

Trivia

• Although flax is a member's item, bowstrings are not.

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