Guide to Spinning Bowstrings for Money 1. Introduction ----- Hi, my name is Jesse, and my RSN is Sara Reaper. Recently, I've been itching to do something useful with my boredom. I've also been looking for ways to make a decent amount of cash. I came upon a way to sort of merchant, but you can even do it without starting money(but this way will just take up some time). How, you ask? Bowstrings! It may not be able to make as much as other methods, but most of those other ways are harder for lower levels. 2. Table of Contents --- 1.0 Introduction --- 2.0 Table of Contents --- 3.0 Obtaining Flax -------- 3.1 Short way: Buying -------- 3.2 Long way: Getting it yourself! --- 4.0 Spinning the Flax -------- 4.1 Bought the flax -------- 4.2 Picked the flax --- 5.0 The Numbers -------- 5.1 Bowstrings made an hour ------------ 5.11 Bought the flax ------------ 5.12 Picked the flax -------- 5.2 Profit an hour ------------ 5.21 Bought the flax ------------ 5.22 Picked the flax --- 6.0 Closing 3.0 Obtaining Flax ----- Obtaining flax can be as easy as yelling in a bank, or running back and forth for hours. I, myself, like to take the short way. 3.1 Short way: Buying This way is very simple. Just go to Seers bank and start yelling something alon the lines of, "white:wave:buying all flax 100ea!" The general price is about 90-110gp a piece. You should get a couple of trades. You can also buy them off of the forums if you buy them in bulk amounts. When all of your cash is ehasted, find a way to Lumbridge. This can be through home teleport on standard spell book, Lumbridge teleport, or you can even get yourself killed on purpose somehow if your respawn point is in Lumbridge. How ever you get there, go to the bank on the top floor. 3.2 Long way: Getting it yourself This way is longer then buying, but you will make 100% profit. It will take a little bit longer to make the same amount of bowstrings than buying, so I only recommend doing this if you don't have the money to buy flax. See "4.2 Picked the flax" to see the steps in doing this. 4. Spinning the Flax ----- There are two methods on spinning the flax, depending on how you got your flax. 4.1 Bought the flax If you bought your flax, you should get yourself to Lumbridge. Go to the top floor. Withdraw 28 unnoted flax, and go down one floor. There is a spinning wheel located in the southern room. Go into the room and left-click on the spinning wheel. Right-click the flax option, and then left-click "Make X." What I do to shave off about half a second is just enter 33 and hit enter. The 3 is right next to the enter button on a number keypad. If you don't have one, just hit 99 and press enter. When your load of flax hase been spun into bowstrings, go back up the stairs. Bank all 28 bowstrings, withdraw 28 flax, and reapeat. 4.2 Picked the flax If you plan on picking your flax, just go to Seers and head to the flax field south of Seers bank. Find a flax plant and pick is until it disappears. When that happens, move on to another plant, and pick all the flax from that one, too. Do this until your inventory is full. Then run northwest to the house next to the yard with the yew trees in it. Go in and go upstairs where a spinning wheel is located. Left-click on the spinning wheel. Right-click the flax option, and then left-click "Make X." What I do to shave off about half a second is just enter 33 and hit enter. The 3 is right next to the enter button on a number keypad. If you don't have one, just hit 99 and press enter. Once your load is done, go back down the stairs and run to the bank and bank the items. Run to the flax field and start the cycle over again. 5.0 The Numbers --- Here is where you see the amount you make and how much money you make an hour. 5.1 Bowstrings made an hour --- 5.11 Bought the flax My average trip to complete a full load was about 1:20(I had run on full time to because while you're psinning, it recharges back to 100%). This translates into 80 seconds. Since I am finding out how much you will make an hour, I will convert the hour to seconds. Here is the equation: [3600(seconds in an hour)] / [80(time it takes for one load)] * [28(amount of bowstring in a load)] = 1260. You will make about 1260 bolwstrings an hour. --- 5.12 Picked the flax My average trip to complete a full load was about 3:00 while walking. While running, my average time was 2:25. So that means 180 seconds while walking and 145 seconds while running. Here are the equations: Walking - [3600(seconds in an hour)] / [180(time it takes for one load)] * [28(amount of bowstring in a load)] = 560. Running - [3600(seconds in an hour)] / [145(time it takes for one load)] * [28(amount of bowstring in a load)] = 700. 5.2 Profit an hour --- 5.21 Bought the flax Since you can make about 1260 bowstrings an hour, you multiply this by the price you sell by. Here is the equation for selling them at 200 each and buying at 100 each: [1260(bowstrings/hour)] * [200(selling price) - 100(buring price)] = 126,000. You will make about 126,000 an hour by buying your flax. --- 5.22 Picked the flax Here is the equation for selling them at 200 each. Walking - [560(bowstrings/hour)] * [200(selling price)] = 112,000. Running - [700(bowstrings/hour)] * [200(selling price)] = 140,000. By picking your own flax you will make about 112,000 an hour walking and about 140,000 an hour running. 6.0 Closing --- Hopefully, someone has been inspired to make some cash by my ways. This was mainly a test guide, to see if I'm able to make a decent guide. Of course, there are other ways to make money that would get you about double to triple this way would, but some of those ways are not able to be done easily by lower levels. Note: If this guide becomed popular, I will add pictures. We just have to wait and see.