tow

[Gemoke]

do any of you guys use tow for cleaning your smoothie,I`ve read this in Mark Bakers book and was wondering how many guys use it and where do you get it. all I ever is small pieces maybe 3 or 4 oz. for sale.
cut finger

 

[Russianblood]

I got mine from Dixie Gun Works. I use it in my fire starting kit. DGW doesn't recommend it's use in cleaning though.
[url] http://www.dixiegunworks.com/product_info.php?products_id=2685[/url]

 

[Legionair]

You can go to one of them holistic herbal places and buy flax seed by the pound.

Grows like a weed supposedely, and you just cut it down, dry it and separate the tow fromthe actual flax fibers.

We've got one of them wierd ( :haha: :youcrazy: ) stores in my area, and I was considering this myself... just haven't gotten around to it yet.

If you beat me to it... let me how it works for you.....

Legion

 

[TANSTAAFL]

Tow be, or not tow be, I get mine from old tee shirts. :rotf:

 

[Java Man]

Gemoke,

I got a hank of tow from Smiling Fox Forge. Have not used it yet, but it looks nice and clean.

Gregg

 

[Roy]

I use it often.

 

[Cruzatte]

Yeah, I use it to field clean my trade gun. I got big bunches of it from a couple of different weavers.

Cruzatte

 

[Wes/Tex]

Tow bought from commercial sources ought to be washed and dried before you use it. It probably has oils in it that need to be washed out.

 

[oomcurt]

I had heard or read someplace (forget which and where) that jute cordage, the kind which is not waxed, which I have seen at Ace Hardware can be used. You cut off the lengths you need and comb it out into strands. I bought a macreme plant hanger at a yard sale, a huge thing for a couple of bucks, cut it into workable lengths, and then combed/untwisted the pieces into individual strands. Tried to use it for making a fire. Wow! Took off like a house afire. I am thinking of trying it in my rifle instead of cleaning patches but haven't gotten around to trying it there as yet. Note: if you decide to do this....either do it outside or over a large piece of plastic, those fibers give off little pieces that get broken off in the process and you wind up looking like you fell into some kind of lint/thread dump.

 

[Cruzatte]

I had heard or read someplace (forget which and where) that jute cordage, the kind which is not waxed, which I have seen at Ace Hardware can be used. You cut off the lengths you need and comb it out into strands. I bought a macreme plant hanger at a yard sale, a huge thing for a couple of bucks, cut it into workable lengths, and then combed/untwisted the pieces into individual strands. Tried to use it for making a fire. Wow! Took off like a house afire.

:shocked2: Yeah, it did! :rotf:

Cruzatte

 

[paulvallandigham]

You might find a supply of raw linen or flax at a sewing supply store, or anywhere they sell yarn. I have used Jute for making fires, and it works as well as hemp rope- maybe better.