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Yucca bowstrings/cordage

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mullet:
 Claude VanOrder makes string out of the wild yucca that grows in Florida and uses it on his bows with bear grease.

Phillip K:
Yucca Needs to be Hammered on a wood log to get the fibres apart and then rinsed in water to get the soap out then it can be used as Cordage. Of coarse  I seen this done on video.

TRACY:
The only cleaning I have done is scraping the length o the leaf with my knife to remove the chlorophyll pulp and then let dry. When dry, I split the individual strands much like pulling sinew and then add to the string as I go. It's working ,not to say it's right though. Native Americans no doubt made mostly sinew and gut strings for a reason, they worked. If my survival was at stake here i would be using sinew also ;)

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