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JAS Townsend Sinew - WOW!
By:Kudzu
Date: 8/21/2009, 1:31 pm

Got the sinew in from Townsend yesterday and I am impressed! This is what it should work like! I was using sinew from Skin Boat School. It is more like a small twisted rope while this from the Townsend is flat and REALLY lays flat. The other does not.

I find the new sinew a little harder to work with, not as stiff and not as heavy a wax coating so it wants to unravel a little easier. But I am not going back to the other. Now I understand why people talk about sinew laying flat. I am tempted to remove and relash the frame since I have not skinned it yet.

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Artifical sinew source?
Kudzu -- 8/6/2009, 10:29 am
JAS Townsend Sinew - WOW!
Kudzu -- 8/21/2009, 1:31 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Artifical sinew source?
Brian Scarborough -- 8/11/2009, 10:31 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Artifical sinew source?
Aaron H -- 8/6/2009, 4:55 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Artifical sinew source?
Kudzu -- 8/6/2009, 5:29 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Artifical sinew source? *LINK*
Phil Nelson -- 8/6/2009, 8:24 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Artifical sinew source?
West -- 8/6/2009, 1:27 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Artifical sinew source?
John Van Buren -- 8/7/2009, 10:11 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Artifical sinew source?
Kudzu -- 8/6/2009, 5:30 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Artifical sinew source?
Ken Blanton -- 8/6/2009, 6:08 pm