Cowhide

[entiendo]

If I was to braid cowhide, what part of the hide would I buy, and does anyone know where I might get it?

[curlyjo]

Not sure if you're looking for rawhide or leather. Rawhide from Bill Confer at Tejas Ind. in Hereford Texas. Quite a few selections to choose from. If I was looking for uniform rawhide get the 30" discs and go from there. A little pricey but really even and I can get close to 180' of honda string out of each piece. There's another place in Idaho that is selling scraped hides for 125 dollars shipped and they make good Bosal size string. Don't have that info. handy but can get it if interested. Leather is really a different story. Just have to figure what you're doing to determine wt. and type. I have taken some pretty poor leather and used the white gas and wax method in Bruce Grants Encyl. and made some nice strings. But be careful. It works but don't set the neighborhood on fire! There's my 2 cents worth and you could get back change. Brad

[troy]

if its cowhide leather your planning to use, then get double shoulders, they tend to be the most even in thickness and strength - I use lace down to 3mm with it on knots where I tigthen them quite abit and don't gety alot of breaks - for supplies in the states, I have used tandy's but they are expensive. If cut from the outside in, I can get upto 130-150m of 6mm lace from 10ft square.

[entiendo]

Thanks! It's actually cow hide leather I was looking for. Finding color in roo very difficult and I saw some wonderful braiding with cow hide and wanted to try my hand at it. If I could cut 1/8" and about .9 or .8 mm thickness I would be pretty happy.