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Re: Skin-on-Frame: thread
By:Ken Blanton
Date: 4/24/2011, 4:53 pm
In Response To: Skin-on-Frame: thread (Todd Olson)

I use ...

For the skin: Cabela's Prestige 50# braided dacron fishing line

For the cockpit hoop: #12 bonded nylon twine from Wallace Cordage.

Ken Blanton

: I'm ready to start skinning my wife's Chuckanut but it just dawned
: on me that I haven't procured any thread for sewing. What do
: most guys use?

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: thread
Todd Olson -- 4/24/2011, 10:29 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: thread
Dave Gentry -- 4/24/2011, 11:55 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: thread
Brian -- 4/24/2011, 12:38 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: thread
David Bynoe -- 4/24/2011, 1:05 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: thread
Ken Blanton -- 4/24/2011, 4:53 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: thread
Bryan Hansel -- 4/24/2011, 5:00 pm