Sinew Technique?

[Parnell]

Heya,

What's the low down on how to sinew wrap fletching downb?  I haven't really worked with the stuff yet and am currently chewing on a few strands in my mouth to start breaking it down.  Do you have to tie the stuff down, use hide glue, or can you just wrap it without tying a knot, it doesn't seem to want to stick quite yet.
What's the deal?

Thanks,

Parnell

[mullet]

 I soak it in water, squeeze all of it tight between my fingers. Lay a piece on the fletching and shaft. Apply one drop of super glue, let it stick and start wrapping. Then I follow up with watered downed TB3 soaked in to the sinew.
  I never chew the stuff, never know how it was processed. Also most of that Northern stuff is where CWD is from.

[Parnell]

Got it.  I'm debating on whether I want to try tying down the three feather fletch or just stick to the jig and glue I've been using.
Maybe it'd be better when I look to do some two feather fletches...
Eddie, if you're doing a three feather fletch using the tie down technique do you do a glue line along the feather after you've tied the front and back down?

[mullet]

 Steve, yes, I do. I don't want them coming loose when I'm hunting. Even when I use glue and a jig, I wrap the front of the arrow. When I'm hunting I just do not want any failures.

[Pat B]

I chew the strands until soft, straighten it out and begin wrapping. When I get to the end I lick my fingers and rotate the arrow between them adding pressure with my fingers until smooth. Set the arrow aside until the sinew dries. I now seal the sinew wraps with pitch varnish but have used TBIII or super glue over the sinew. I haven't had any problems with them coming loose. If one does, I re-wrap it with new sinew. 

[Pappy]

I do about the same as Pat.only usually seal over it with Tru Oil after the sinew had dried really  good. I found it sticks much better when chewed than when soaked,I don't worry about chewing it,I process all my own anyway. Guess you could get something bad from it but haven't yet and I've chewed it a lot.     
   Pappy

[Marc St Louis]

Super glue....sinew?  Horrors 

I wrap as Pat does then wipe some fish glue or hide glue around it.  Let dry then seal with pitch or tung oil

[sailordad]

i chew to get it soft,im in the north and have yet to get CDW 
i also take a dry piece and when i get close to being done wit hthe wrap
i take the dry piece and fold and half and lay that down on teh shaft and finish y wrap over that
on the last wrap ipoke it thru the dry piece,then pull the dry one to take and tuck the tag end under the wrap
never had one come loose doing this
but i have added step to it now,i use clear fingernail polish to seal it once dried
i do this onlyu cause,like mulet,i dont want any failures and the time of truth

[JackCrafty]

Chew?  I don't chew it although I have wet the sinew with spit....and it works good, but I prefer to dip the sinew in water.  I apply a thin layer of fish glue to the shaft and lay the sinew down, then start wrapping.  The glue will usually "snag" the end of sinew if it's not too wet and then I dab a little fish glue onto the end of the sinew and finish off the wrap as Pat does (except the licking the fingers part).

[Josh]

I like to chew sinew.. I think it has a good taste.    ...can't really call it a strong taste, but it does have a good, subtle taste.

[sailordad]

I like to chew sinew.. I think it has a good taste.    ...can't really call it a strong taste, but it does have a good, subtle taste.

wheew,what a relief.
i thought i was the only 

[Josh]

LOL    I thought I was weird for liking it, too.

[HoBow]

Mmmmmmm salty

[Josh]

mine's not.. I let them air dry on a line in my shed, no salt.  They taste faintly like unseasoned jerky to me. 

[sailordad]

no salt in mine either
same as josh,air dried