YouTube video by Lisa Sorrell teaching how to make waxed ends for inseaming
Supplies
- Dacron taper from Maine Thread
- hand wax from Panhandle Leather in a piece of leather
- 20-pound Fishing Line Bristles
- beeswax
- awl
Process
- cut line about 10 inches long
- gently scratch up two inches of one end with sandpaper
- otherwise thread will slide right off
- coat the scratched end with wax
- wax the thread
- start wrapping on the thread where the diameter is about the same as the fishing line
- wrap toward the smooth end of the fishing line
- hold taught
- wrap the taw back over itself toward the scratched end
- each turn lays right next to the previous one
- hold at an angle to avoid slack in the thread
- with about a half inch of bristle left, stop
- use the awl to make a hole through the thread
- feed the bristle through the hole
- repeat 4 to 6 times
- “knots it off so it doesn’t come unraveled”
- coat the taw with beeswax to neutralized stickiness of hand wax
- want the thread right behind the bristle smooth so it pulls through easily
- want the stick wax on the main body of the thread to lock in place
- ideal: seamless transition from bristle to thread
Dick Anderson
- 6:50 makes inseaming awls
- shows hafts and blades laid out on a bench
- #1 pretty straight
- #2 more curve
- #3 with sharp curve
- Lisa uses #2 most of the time