Parfleche container

[madcrow]

I decided that sine I have been playing with lots of bone, I needed something to keep it all in.  This one will be for teh fishing kit and I am making another for teh sewing kit and also a third for teh bone arrowheads.  I gave most of the bones a little soak to make them look a little older.  The container was sewn with sinew and coated with pine pitch varnish.







I made three gorge hooks and a couple of two piece hooks held together with pine pitch and dogbane fibers.



Now I have to finish my flemish twist dogbane fishing line and braided sinew leader.  Total length will be about 28 feet.

[Trapper Rob]

That is pretty darn nice did you make your pine pitch varnish if you did how did you make it.
Rob

[madcrow]

My recipe is pretty simple.  I melted down some pine rosin that I had already processed and poured it into a quart jar and then slowly poured in denatured alcohol while stirring the mix like crazy to help the rosin desolve and keep it from setting up in a blob.  Then I added more melted pitch til it got to the color that I wanted.  It works great and dries fast.

[Hunts with stone]

Where's that I like button! You do some great work sir.

[JW_Halverson]

Yowza, Mad-skills-crow, you done it again!  Do you have any prickly pear cactus growing near you?  If so, the juice from the leaves makes good waterproofing for parfleche, too. 

[Pappy]

Now that is some sweet stuff.Very nice work.
   Pappy

[madcrow]

Thanks for teh compliments.  I will post the others as they get done.