Re-lacing Wood and Rawhide Snowshoes
Back when I was young, we called 'em Indian webs, snowshoes were skis! from a 1976 interview with Frank Black, a Northern California buckaroo, logger and Forest Service ranger. My wife bought me these Indian webs right after we got married, about 13 years ago. The rawhide lacing has seen better days, several laces are broken and I should've varnished them last year. Last year for Christmas I got Gil Gilpatrick's book on snowshoe making. Here I've got the foot cut out. Now I've started the lacing. I used 1/8 inch thick braided nylon cord, it's cheap, 10 cents a foot! The main cord wrapped and the lacing is finished, for the foot, that is. It took me about 3 hours to get to this point and after I got done I discovered I made a mistake in the lacing. Oh, well, next shoe should be better! Now I need to go buy some mason's line so I can do the toe and heel, something that I hadn't planned, but will do so the shoes will be done entirely wit