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Primitive Fly Rod
DC:
If you cut donuts out of another piece of bamboo and tied them on with sinew I wonder how strong they would be? You could polish the inside of the donut and they would be as good as store bought. I read somewhere that in the Victorian era they used a single strand of horsehair for a leader.
JoJoDapyro:
Tenkara line is usually hand knurled line, so just about the same as a bowstring, only 3 strands instead of two.
madcrow:
I made a short fishing line last year to use with my bone hooks. I reverse twisted it 25 feet long and kept it as close to1/16 as possible with the last five feet tapering to nearly nothing. I made a sinew tippet about 8 feet long but instead of twisting, I braided it and made sure to stagger the splices. Im just guessing it was 1/32 of an inch wide, maybe a hair less. The i waxed it all. It worked great.
Jodocus:
Sweet! Do you have a hook already?
Keep us posted about how it works..
Saxton:
Where's the fish pics ?
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