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Has anyone used inner tree bark to make a sling? (Read 1446 times)
Lightning Jack
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Has anyone used inner tree bark to make a sling?
Jun 11
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, 2021 at 7:03pm
Just wondering if anyone has tried to make a sling using inner tree bark, I have made one using walnut bark, with a leather pouch.
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Re: Has anyone used inner tree bark to make a sling?
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Jun 11
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, 2021 at 7:40pm
I think I might have once at one point from willow? Maybe? But I love that. It looks great. Did you boil the fiber in ash water first?
Hows it holding up?
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Jun 11
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, 2021 at 11:56pm
I didn’t boil it in ash water. It hold up really well but the bark doesn’t have much friction in the whipping so after about a dozen throws the loop side sting slips out and I have to fix it.
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Greetings Jack, what you are talking about is "bast". There is archeobotanical evidence that lime bast was the primary cordage used in neolithic times and later. Good luck.
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Could you also use it for the pouch ?
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Curious Aardvark wrote
on Sep 11
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, 2021 at 7:35am:
Could you also use it for the pouch ?
you can use it just like any other fiber. you can make a balearic sling if you have enough of it
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I meant a solid pouch.
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Iffen yu was asken I about a solid pouch ... bast is by its nature only useful as a stranded material. There is a rather cute reconstruction sketch of a bloke wandering round doing an imitation of a haystack with legs !!!
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Re: Has anyone used inner tree bark to make a sling?
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Sep 11
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Zud, that made me laugh so hard.
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Curious Aardvark wrote
on Sep 11
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I meant a solid pouch.
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@joe cheers
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Re: Has anyone used inner tree bark to make a sling?
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xud9a - call me zud 👍 wrote
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, 2021 at 10:00pm:
There is archeobotanical evidence that lime bast was the primary cordage used in neolithic times and later.
And I've made a sling with lime bast. I was taking the bark off an unknown log and realised it would make for great cordage. I then found out it was lime bast and made a sling and rope from it. Great stuff. Easy to see why it was used.
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Sep 20
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@kick, thanks for that, it's great to hear something is still in use thousands of years later cheers Zud
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