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Re: canoe seat - rawhide lacing *Pic*
By:Bill Boyd
Date: 9/21/2000, 3:27 am
In Response To: canoe seat - rawhide lacing (Jim Eisenmenger)

: Does anyone have a source of instructions or even a link to a good photo that
: will help me with doing rawhide lacing rather than caning for canoe seats?

Hello Jim

I have used 1/8" parachute cord which is similar to bootlace but I found it hard on the backside especially where the cords cross I would imagine that rawhide would have the same result. On this years canoe seats I used a nylon camping utility cord that is woven hollow with some strands if nylon on the interior this stuff lies flat almost like shoe laces in 100 foot rolls , I have only seen it in white ,so I dyed some with a walnut dye and varnished them aferward it looked good for a while , but after one summer the dye is almost completely bleached out from the sun should have used an aniline dye instead of a cheap fabric dye or just tinted it with a dark varnish which worked well on previous projects. They are still comfy on der butt and don't seem to stretch out of shape .

My 2 cents

Later Bill

Messages In This Thread

canoe seat - rawhide lacing
Jim Eisenmenger -- 9/19/2000, 10:30 am
Re: canoe seat - rawhide lacing *Pic*
Bill Boyd -- 9/21/2000, 3:27 am
Re: canoe seat - rawhide lacing
Tony -- 9/20/2000, 12:21 pm
Re: canoe seat - rawhide lacing
Brian Wegener -- 9/20/2000, 10:12 am
rawhide lacing know what you are getting into
Stan Heeres -- 9/20/2000, 7:46 am
Re: rawhide lacing know what you are getting into
Jim Eisenmenger -- 9/20/2000, 7:57 am
Re: Sources for cane
John Michne -- 9/20/2000, 10:06 am
Re: Source for plastic cane
Dave Houser -- 9/23/2000, 7:51 pm
Source for rawhide lacing?
Don Bobzien -- 9/19/2000, 2:53 pm
Re: Source for rawhide lacing?
Paul G. Jacobson -- 9/19/2000, 10:43 pm
Re: canoe seat - rawhide lacing *Pic*
David Hanson -- 9/19/2000, 12:19 pm
Re: canoe seat - rawhide lacing *Pic*
David Hanson -- 9/19/2000, 11:47 am
Re: canoe seat - rawhide lacing
Jim Eisenmenger -- 9/19/2000, 2:19 pm
Beautiful but not mine >"Green Valley Canoes"
David Hanson -- 9/19/2000, 2:42 pm