Rawhide Strips

[Archer 756]

Read once that there is a tool made for cutting rawhide strips. Anyone know of where one can find such a tool? Thanks! :thumbsup:

 

[rabjr]

This?
http://www.tandyleatherfactory.com/products.asp?number=3784-00

 

[Muskeg Stomper]

I've had good luck with a utility knife/box cutter blade driven well into a piece of lumber. I then use a c-clamp to clamp a wood fence the distance from the blade for the strip of rawhide that I want to cut. Think of a table saw-type setup with a fence and a fixed blade. I then pull the rawhide through.

I've also just used a stout pair of scissors for thinner rawhide.

 

[Muskeg Stomper]

Do you know if the Tandy tool works well on rawhide or does it just work well on tanned leather which is much softer?

 

[Riku]

Rawhide is pretty easy to cut when it's wet.
I saw net video of Cree hunters back in 1974
when two women were making rawhide strips of wet rawhide with that kind of tool that Tandy has.

 

[RonT]

Freeze your soft leather on a cookie sheet. After freezing I punch the center hole and cut a lead edge to stick through the desired slot, then pull 'till the end.
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Oooops, read that too quick, thought you meant cutting soft leather...., well that's how I cut soft leather with this tool anyhow.

 

[rabjr]

No idea, I've never used that tool.

 

[pichou]

Rawhide is pretty easy to cut when it's wet.
I saw net video of Cree hunters back in 1974
when two women were making rawhide strips of wet rawhide with that kind of tool that Tandy has.

http://beta.nfb.ca/film/cree_hunters/
:thumbsup:

I used scissors for 1/8" rawhide. The lace cutters would work fine too IMHO.