FirstString USA Premium Custom Set
Good
Ranked #3 of 8 compound bowstrings
$149.99
FirstString's edge is choice: their customizer lets you pick the fiber itself — 452X, 8190, Formula X, 8125, even Dacron for a vintage bow — instead of taking whatever the shop builds on. Every set is made to order in the USA. It's a strong, flexible option; it just publishes fewer hard numbers than the others, so a couple of its specs come in as honest blanks.
Standout feature: Pick your own fiber — 452X, 8190, Formula X and more — through the online customizer.
The verdict
The FirstString USA Premium Custom Set earns a CareScore of 55.4/100 (good), ranking #3 of 8 compound bowstrings we’ve scored at $149.99. Pick your own fiber — 452X, 8190, Formula X and more — through the online customizer.
Scored by the published CareScore v1.1.0 methodology from manufacturer specs, June 2026.
Pros
- Selectable string material, not a fixed house fiber
- Made to order in the USA per bow
- Broad material menu covers modern and older bows
- Mid-range $149.99 pricing
Cons
- Warranty term not published on the pages we checked
- No clean total color count stated
- Serving and pre-stretch details left unspecified
CareScore breakdown
How the 55.4/100 was built. Each spec is normalised to a 0–100 quality score, then weighted.
Data note: Price $149.99, selectable BCY materials (452X, 8190, Formula X, 8125, DF97, Dacron), made-to-order in the USA via the FirstString String Customizer, verified on firststringusa.com. FirstString guarantees no peep rotation, no serving separation and no creep/stretch (verified on the product page) but publishes no explicit term, so warrantyMonths is conservatively encoded as 12 to match the identical guarantee its peers publish as one year. Total color count, serving spec and pre-stretch not published, left null. Sources: firststringusa.com/product-category/compound-bow-strings/, /string-customizer/.
Full specifications
| Warranty | 12 mo |
|---|---|
| Color Choices | — |
| Street Price | $149.99 |
| String Material | Premium-bcy |
| Build Time | — |
| Creep / Peep Rotation | — |
| Serving | — |
| Made in USA | Yes |
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