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beaverbutt8
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Cordage problem
Sep 29th, 2005 at 7:30pm
 
Hey guys,

Yesterday i was reading on primativeways.com about making cordage. I  fully understand this, but there is a problem. If you twist, oh, say a few piecies of bark or something together, say 5 inches long, if you want to make a long string, how to you connect this short strand to others?? I can't think of any way


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Reply #1 - Sep 29th, 2005 at 8:14pm
 
It tells you how to add on new fibers in the article.  Just overlap the last inch of old fibers on the first inch of new ones and twist it together.  Do this with each side and you can make cordage as long as you want.
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Reply #2 - Sep 29th, 2005 at 8:36pm
 
Right. An even better approach would be to always carry X number of fiber bundles in the yarn. Say you wanted to make a single ply that was 5 strips thick. Rather than starting with 5 and then splicing in 5 more, start with one, then go a ways and add another etc. Once you are up to full thickness, you replace individual strands as they drop out (not need to overlap even, since the other 4 are carrying.

When you are wroking from fibre rather than strips, you just feed new material into the "spinning triangle" as you go, resulting in hundreds of overlaps in a length.

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Reply #3 - Sep 29th, 2005 at 9:46pm
 
I'm afraid i don't quite understand
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Reply #4 - Sep 29th, 2005 at 10:05pm
 
Well, if you can't understand the large picture and several paragraph explanation of what to do on the Primitive ways website, then there isn't much that I can do to help you  Undecided.
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Reply #5 - Sep 29th, 2005 at 10:39pm
 
which large picture?? I must be missing something
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Reply #6 - Sep 30th, 2005 at 8:00am
 
Figure 5 in the article.
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Reply #7 - Sep 30th, 2005 at 11:07am
 
I think what they're talking about is basically splicing together the ends of the cordage, to join them together. It's and old sailor's-Boy Scout method to bring together cords, rope, etc. A great book, if you can find it, that explains the method is Bushcraft, by Richard Graves. If you happen to have a Scout book, it's explained in there.
    Basically, what you do is take an unraveled section of the cords, and interweave them, so that they are together. The weave, if done right, is suprisingly strong.
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Reply #8 - Sep 30th, 2005 at 1:17pm
 
Oh, ok, I have a scout book from the 70's which was my dad's, it actually is WAY more informative than my new scout book, my dad also got me the american boy's handy book a few days ago, VERY useful stuff
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Reply #9 - Sep 30th, 2005 at 1:33pm
 
Splicing is good stuff, and a useful skill to have (why just last week I spent a better part of an hour putting eyesplices on laid rope) but it is not a very efficient way to approach spinning cordage.

If you look at the pictures, you'll see that before you run out of the bundle of bark etc that you are spinning, you overlap in some new stuff. The twist holds it together... simple. With plied rope (more than one twisted strand, that are then twist together in the oposite direction) the plying action "locks" the individual parts, and they shouldn't come undone.

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Reply #10 - Sep 30th, 2005 at 2:47pm
 
Could you show me a picture??
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Reply #11 - Sep 30th, 2005 at 2:48pm
 
Did you look at the pictures I made?

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Reply #12 - Sep 30th, 2005 at 4:07pm
 
which ones?

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Reply #13 - Sep 30th, 2005 at 4:14pm
 
There are pictures on the primitive ways website.
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Reply #14 - Sep 30th, 2005 at 5:18pm
 
www.templelooters.com/evil/images/gabm-02.jpg

I dont get any of this! I tried overlapping and the strings just came apart as soon as an pressure was applied!
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