YouTube video tutorial by Kazuma Nishimura demonstrating thread making and bristle mounting
Thread Making
- leaves the tapered end of the taper untwisted
- waxed the tapered end before mounting
Boar Bristle
- 3:51 mounting a boar bristle
- captures the point of the taper between the split tines of the point end of the bristle
- lays the point of the taper toward the point of the bristle
- wraps toward the point
- continues nearly to the end of the point
Boar Bristle and Sewing Thread
- 4:44 pierces the thread right after the wrap and passes through twice
- 8:20 cuts a piece of red sewing thread, waxes it, and winds it onto the last part of the bristle with the taper
- continues wrapping the thread around the bristle and taper to the end of the joint
- continues wrapping the thread more loosely around just the taper, after the bristle
- 9:56 pierces the thread three times in a row with a harness needle, threads the needle, and pulls it through
- 11:04 close-up shots of finished waxed end
Fishing Line
- holds in a vise, doubles up, warms with heat gun
- roughs near the ends with sandpaper on a block
- 240- and 400-grit emery boards on the very ends
- cuts to angled points
- waxes the roughed ends
- winds the point of the taper first tightly, then loosely
- pierces and passes through
- tests by yanking hard in hands
Fishing Line and Sewing Thread
Experiments
- tries mounting a boar bristle to packing twine
- tries mounting a cat whisker to linen thread