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Offline bushman

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Gut Bow String?
« on: October 29, 2009, 02:01:12 am »
How do you dry the intestines to make gut bow strings? Do you cut them open so they are like a sheet then hang them up with a weight on one end to dry? Or do you leave them intact as you would for sausage casing and then hang them up with a weight on one end to dry? Thanks
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Offline zeNBowyer

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Re: Gut Bow String?
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2009, 03:46:07 am »
Great  topic  Bushman, I'm  also  wondering  what animals  are  best  used  for gut string/hafting
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Re: Gut Bow String?
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2009, 05:09:47 pm »
Bear gut (for bowstrings) was reportedly used by some Native Americans in the Eastern US.  Not sure what tribe(s).
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Re: Gut Bow String?
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2009, 05:34:50 pm »
I have used Gut Hafting I bought from Nativeway.com with Good Results before...just Soak the dried Gut in warm water until it is rehydrated....use three to four peices of it ...and twist it like a Flemish String....worked great for me
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Re: Gut Bow String?
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2010, 08:12:11 am »
Here kitty kitty kitty!  >:D JK  Seriously, has any one tried using cat gut designed for a tennis racket?  I don't know how stretchy the stuff is.

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Re: Gut Bow String?
« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2010, 11:50:28 pm »
thats cool you gona go that primitive, i like b50 myself, good luck with it. i wouls like to see a pic of one i never seen a gut string.
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Re: Gut Bow String?
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2010, 03:06:22 am »
El Destructo, What was that gut hafting like that you bought? Was it gut cut into strips? Or was it the whole tube of a gut all dried and shriveled up?
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Quote from: El Destructo on December 30, 2009, 05:34:50 pm
I have used Gut Hafting I bought from Nativeway.com with Good Results before...just Soak the dried Gut in warm water until it is rehydrated....use three to four peices of it ...and twist it like a Flemish String....worked great for me
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Re: Gut Bow String?
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2010, 03:08:30 am »
all Dried and Shrivelled Up!!
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Re: Gut Bow String?
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2010, 03:35:50 am »
woodstick El Destructo, thanks, now I need to go get me some gut. Well have to wait till fall time when I get me deer. When I get it all dried up and made into a bowstring I will be sure to post pictures of it Woodstick.
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« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2010, 03:38:48 am »
What happened to that post? Ment to say:
El Destructo, thanks, now I need to go get me some gut. Well have to wait till fall time when I get me deer. When I get it all dried up and made into a bowstring I will be sure to post pictures of it Woodstick.
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Offline wolfsire

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« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2010, 06:19:54 pm »
I've kept this link on guts.  You might find it useful.

http://www.daniellarson.com/article.htm

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Re: Gut Bow String?
« Reply #11 on: May 17, 2016, 08:17:51 pm »
just stretching sausage skins now... I hear cat gut was a red herring in the violin making buisiness.. it was just sheep.. killing cats often believed to be bad luck, which is what they wanted for the competition.
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