[GreenKeys] Waxed Lacing Cord

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Other comments aside, nylon, being slick, isn't a good choice for lacing 
cord as if the harness gets cut, it will easily unlace itself.  Beeswax coated 
flax pulls easily but once it has been in place for a while diesn't 
generally come un-laced around a cut.  Plus the flax cord has a few thousands 
stretch per foot and is far easier to get a tight lace with than something like 
nylon would be.

In a message dated 5/27/2009 11:26:18 AM Central Daylight Time, 
kd7jyk at earthlink.net writes: 
> The stuff I have, going back some fourty years, reads on the label "Tape,
> Waxed, Nylon" with a MilSpec number.
> 
> Not curmedgeonly enough for you?
> 
> My Wife uses sinew in her shoes and clothing.  I could just as easily 
> switch
> to that.  A few hundred thousand years back curmudgeonly enough?
> 
> Kurt
> 

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