Subject: Re: [baidarka] Where 'artificial sinew' and skinning materialfrom?
From: Brian Nystrom (brian.nystrom@att.net)
Date: Sat Oct 20 2001 - 08:05:02 EDT
Bill Samson wrote:
> 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
Fear not, Bill, for you can make your own artificial sinew at home. Simply melt
some bee's wax and soak nylon or polyester twine in it. Wipe it off and wind it
onto a spool and voila, artificial sinew!
Another source for the commercial product is leather working suppliers.
-- RegardsBrian
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