String Cutter Demo

[KnotHead]

I finally made one the string cutters that I saw in Enrique Capones book number 2. In the video below is a demo of that tool being use to cut me some 1/16th goat rawhide string for a few knots on a project I'm working on.

Hope you all enjoy the video.

Brian

[Peter T]

Whoa! Very cool. Thanks for showing, Brian. Does it work for cutting kangaroo?

Pete

[GrampaJoel]

Very cool video.

The cutter looks amazingly easy to use.

I would love to see more info about the cutter.

Joel

[KnotHead]

Pete. I have not been able to try it out on kangaroo leather yet. But from what another colleague has said to me is that it will work with kangaroo rawhide and horse rawhide.

Brian...

Whoa! Very cool. Thanks for showing, Brian. Does it work for cutting kangaroo?

Pete

Hi Joel.

What kind of info are you looking for on the cutter?

Brian...

Very cool video.
The cutter looks amazingly easy to use.
I would love to see more info about the cutter.

Joel

[Peter T]

Thanks Brian. It would be great if it worked roo leather. Either way, what a great little cutter.

Pete

[krappstein]

Hi, Brian. What are those books by Enrique you are talking about, if you don't mind me asking? I have seen his work in another forum but I didn't know he wrote on the subject.

Juan

[KnotHead]

Rawhide and Leather Braiding

Rawhide and Leather Braiding II

Here's the link;

http://www.leather-braiding.com/english.htm

They are both available in Spanish and English. Very good books to have in your library.

Brian...

Hi, Brian. What are those books by Enrique you are talking about, if you don't mind me asking? I have seen his work in another forum but I didn't know he wrote on the subject.

Juan

[Big Sioux Saddlery]

Wow, I'd never seen that string cutter before. I checked out the link and it looks so simple it's silly. Going to make myself several. Cutting string that way looks like something my 14 year old son would have fun doing. Knothead, what did you use for the plastic piece?

[krappstein]

Thanks for the link.

Juan

[KnotHead]

I used a piece of Teflon rod I bought through ebay. Took it to the local machine shop, or local plastics shop so they could stick on their lathe to drill the hole. But come to find out, Teflon is pretty easy to drill. You just need a way to make sure it will stay true while drilling. Which is why I took the rod to the machine shop. Then the machine shop cut the rod into 1/2 inch pieces for me.

A regular stanley box cutter blade does the job real nice. You just have to grind the back of the blade to fit the inner hole is all. Now that I have used this cutter several times, I am sold on its use with goat rawhide for sure. I have not yet tried it out on horse rawhide, deer rawhide, or kangaroo rawhide, or rawhide for that matter.

Brian...

Wow, I'd never seen that string cutter before. I checked out the link and it looks so simple it's silly. Going to make myself several. Cutting string that way looks like something my 14 year old son would have fun doing. Knothead, what did you use for the plastic piece?