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Hemp
Tracker0721:
Oh, maybe not. This stuff just seems super thin. Do you do a couple wraps around it?
Pat B:
Single wrap. I use a bulbous handle and fill out the back of the handle with thick shoe leather then add the wrap.
CavemanRob:
Like Pat B has it.....the commercial stuff from Wal-Mart is good for decorative uses, but not too much else.
We used to make hemp jewelry (bracelets, necklaces, etc) with different glass beads and what-not woven into it when I was in high-school in the late 90's.
ekalavya:
Every plumber probably has it handy and the fibers should be easily to get .....
it is a multipurpose plant .... the seeds are a good bird's food but i used to eat them
too .... they are not so hard like nuts or peanuts and can be eaten as they are ...
do not need to be roasted like peanuts and the oil is expensive but tasty .....
the fibers are quite good ... maybe a little less good than flax or linen , but make
good bowstrings .... slings, ropes and so on ... and of course insulation for waterpipes ...
Industrial or bird's hemp , how some people call it .... is almost every time hermaphroditic
and forget about the THC .... cooking one plant in milk until the milk is green cures
constipation and you should not use it when you do not want diarrhea ...
as i can see hemp fibers and cords are avaiable in all parts of the US, Europe and
maybe the rest of the world too ....
some fools are giving almost a fortune for a small pack (ten seeds) of hemp seeds ...
it is merely bird's food sold for maybe one euro a kg or maybe for 50 cent for two
pounds in the US
Pat B:
I heard years ago the hemp seed were removed from bird seed when hemp was outlawed. Also, they said that canneries stopped singing when they did this.
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