Sinew Rapping

[bushman]

When you are usin sinew to attack the fletching or arrowheads to an arrow and you only have short pieces how do you splice the ends of them together so that they all don’t unravel before they have dried? Do you just leave a tail end under the next rap when you start with a new piece? Also how do to you terminate the end of the sinew? Do you just feed it back under the last few raps then snug it all up tight?
Thanks
Bushman

[Timo]

Yes and yes.

[Pat B]

I chew the sinew strands before I make the wrap. Your saliva and the sinew make their own glue. I wrap it tightly, lick my fingers and squeeze the wrap in my fingers while rotation the shaft. With shorter pieces just add the second and third if necessary the same way. When it dries you won't be able to find the end and it is as good as adding hide glue and less messy. After the sinew dries I seal the wrap with pitch varnish.

[Hillbilly]

What Pat said.

[Barrage]

What Pat said x2.

[sailordad]

im like Pat alos,
well i like to use the wifes clear nail polish on my sinew wraps.

[Deo]

Saliva works the best when binding feathers to the shaft. I will overlap the sinew threads a little. I usually tie the end but the last set i did not and now it is starting to unravel. I imagine you can also do a no not wrap if you want it really secure. I always put a little fletch tite to make it more water proof.

[Pappy]

I do it like Pat.
   Pappy

[mullet]

 I soak mine in warm, watered down TB3.

[George Tsoukalas]

I tie them together, dip them in water, wrap the fletching or nock, and coat with hide glue. Jawge

[aero86]

well, im like sailordad..  heheh

im like, dont you need to buy more nail polish?  your always running out! 

nah, i dont say that, but i did ask my girlfriend to go get me a bunch of clear nail polish though!