HOW TO: Pound Out Sinew Fibers

In this video I briefly show how to extract fibers from the chaft of white-tail deer tendon. Sinew from many bovine animals produce the strongest natural fiber you can find. It is strong enough for use as bow-strings and backing bows for archery - a primitive form of fiber-glass. Sinew has natural glues that causes it to stick onto itself and shrink when dry...

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