How Do You Cut Strings?

[Vaquero1]

1) i take the hole dried out hide and cut off the egdes so it looks like one big egg.

than i cut the whole hide into a long 3/4 inch string, splitt it to an uniform thickness and strech/ dry it out.

2) next i cut this string in 1/4 inch strands.

3) this strands i split, cut and bevel in the differend sizes i finally want...

i wanna know the way you work it, do you cut 1/8" or 1/16" strands from your first big strand?

how often and when do you splitt it?

Michael

[Bevan]

Gday Michael

I only split my strings once , that is after i have cut and stretched the strings / then resized to the size that i am going to use, now I will bevel them and split them ready for use !!

Cheers

Bevan

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[rawhide1]

Mike

I use a drawgauge to cut a strip about 3/4" wide. I then split it to the thickness I need for the project at hand. For some reason I haven't found the need to stretch any of my strips. I don't know if I get the stretch out during the initial cut or while splitting. Or I may not be getting any stretch out and just don't know it.

Mike