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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Longitudinal lashing or individ
By:Thomas Duncan
Date: 1/28/2015, 8:56 am

I like separate lashings, and also use a big, blunted upholstery needle to help pass a double armspan of sinew around the members to be joined. I'll also duct tape a little flat stick to my pinkie like a splint, so I have something to bear on when taking up slack. The splint is most helpful sewing the skin, as a lashing mostly tightens itself, v-y lashings, h-x lashings etc.

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Skin-on-Frame: Longitudinal lashing or individual lashing?
John Raley -- 1/27/2015, 11:23 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Longitudinal lashing or individ
Mike Bielski -- 1/27/2015, 12:09 pm
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John Raley -- 1/27/2015, 12:22 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 1/27/2015, 1:10 pm
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Jeff Horton -- 1/27/2015, 4:55 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Longitudinal lashing or individ
John -- 1/28/2015, 11:54 am
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Jeff Horton -- 1/28/2015, 1:47 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Longitudinal lashing or individ
John -- 1/28/2015, 9:36 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Longitudinal lashing or individ
Thomas Duncan -- 1/28/2015, 8:56 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Longitudinal lashing or individ
Brian Nystrom -- 1/31/2015, 10:30 am