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couple I made and hafted with sinew cord

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1442:
I aint been knapping much lately but I made these two fish hooks with braided sinew cord.
Ready to hit the water with them attached to a couple switch cane poles.

The first one is made of rootbeer and the small one is made from gravel

1442:
landscape gravel hook

Aaron H:
Neat!

Tracker0721:
Update us with the catch! Does sinew still remain sinewy once re soaked in water?

1442:
I have soaked it for a couple hours at a time and it seems to stay perfectly consistent once it's saturated and has performed well in tests while saturated like that. The only failure I encountered was a cord I made with a loose braid and it had some places where the strand splices on two different strands landed real close together and slightly overlapped each other. The strands where able to slip and come apart where the individual strands where spliced together.
With a tight braid, it is like super string. I can't wait to hit the water with it for the final round of testing.


I'm leaving in a couple hours going fishing until Sunday night so I wont be able to respond again until I get back.

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