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Main Discussion Area => Primitive Skills => Topic started by: madcrow on February 24, 2013, 01:33:08 am

Title: Parfleche container
Post by: madcrow on February 24, 2013, 01:33:08 am

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.

(http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp161/madcrow_2008/Bones/100_1269_zps33ada57e.jpg)

(http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp161/madcrow_2008/Bones/100_1270_zps2e5345c6.jpg)

(http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp161/madcrow_2008/Bones/100_1273_zps975d2bb8.jpg)

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

(http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp161/madcrow_2008/Bones/100_1272_zps2ef15572.jpg)

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

Title: Re: Parfleche container
Post by: Trapper Rob on February 24, 2013, 11:20:58 am

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

Title: Re: Parfleche container
Post by: madcrow on February 24, 2013, 03:48:22 pm

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.

Title: Re: Parfleche container
Post by: Hunts with stone on February 24, 2013, 04:16:46 pm

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

Title: Re: Parfleche container
Post by: JW_Halverson on February 24, 2013, 04:39:14 pm

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. 

Title: Re: Parfleche container
Post by: Pappy on February 25, 2013, 10:53:42 am

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

Title: Re: Parfleche container
Post by: madcrow on February 25, 2013, 08:03:18 pm

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