Subject: Re: [baidarka] Where 'artificial sinew' and skinning material from?
From: Bill Samson (bill.samson@tesco.net)
Date: Fri Oct 19 2001 - 19:38:17 EDT
Hi Carl,
As a poor "old country" boy in Scotland I, too, have similar problems. No
supplier on this side of the Pond seems to have heard of these wondrous New
World innovations. When you buy materials by mail order from the Good Ol'
US of A the carriage costs and import duties tend to stick in the throat.
Things usually cost three times as much by the time they reach these
benighted shores.
We should never have agreed to stay behind and herd the sheep/reindeer while
our craftier relatives sailed for Ellis Island . . . <sigh!> I suppose I'd
better go and harpoon another seal for dinner.
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Becher <hofnar@megabaud.fi>
To: baidarka@paddlewise.net <baidarka@paddlewise.net>
Date: Friday, October 19, 2001 4:31 PM
Subject: [baidarka] Where 'artificial sinew' and skinning material from?
>Hullo there!
>
>Some of us have seen the light here in Northern Europe. Some are buildin
>skin-on-frame boats and the others intend to do the same.
>
>But the question arises:
>
>Where to purchase 'artificial sinew', multi-filament waxed thread? Who
would
>be a reliable supplier in the States?
>
>And 'ballistic nylon' seems to be very hard to come by. No information
>whatsoever available from DuPont or Honeywell (no "Allied Signals" any
>more). What would be the second-durable solutien? Preferably white
>polyester, but from where??
>
>Luckily, we have plenty of wood here!
>
>Rgds CB
>
>Espoo, Finland
>
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