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I'm not claiming to have invented this method, but I've not seen
it described anywhere else. I'm not talking about clotheslining the
thread, I'm talking about clotheslining the hook. I use it for
most all of my parachute patterns.
Make sure you have made a solid thread base. For the Klinkhamer, right in front of the bend you made in the shank. Move your thread to the rear of the base. |
| Cut a bunch of poly about 1 1/2" long. The bundle should be half the final wing clump size. | |
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Place the bundle beneath the hook shank and fold both sides upward
around the hook shank. Grasp the bundle with the thumb and forefinger
of the left hand, pulling upward. Secure the poly to the thread base
by making figure 8 wraps tight around the shank while maintaing
an upward pull on the post with the left hand.
An aid while doing this is to support the post on the far side of the hook with the middle finger of the left hand, as shown at right. |
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After about five or six wraps of the figure 8 wraps, wrap the thread up the post in touching turns. If you have made the attachment to the hook shank tight enough you will find that you can do this without any support of the post. Wind the thread back down the post. End with the thread hanging to the rear of the post. |
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