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… with if copper rivets are placed at intervals inside the stitching, to guard against the cutting edge of the knife.
The design is traced and tooled on the sponged leather before it is stitched together. Thin washes of oil colors can be used to tint the design; or solid black and red India ink symbols may be used. It is then polished with light shoe polish.
An ordinary nut pick will serve for tooling the leather. Be sure to moisten the leather before working on it with the nut pick, which is used merely to indent or groove the surface, and not to break it. Use the rounded part of the pick near the point, not the point itself.
The Axe Sheath
The axe sheath is made of stout leather, laced with thongs. The fringe is placed between the front and back pieces; and then all three are laced together.
The flap button is made of a rolled strip of leather, as shown in the Pioneer Hunting Pouch illustration.
The design is drawn and tooled before lacing. An old nut pick will make an excellent tool to work with. Trace the design on leather, and be sure to sponge the leather before using the pick for tooling.
Colored India inks may be used to color design.
A Waterproof Shelter of Wilderness Stuff
If you have plenty of spruce, balsam, or hemlock boughs available to furnish a roof thatch, it is easy to make a lean-to. This consists of a frame of poles bound with roots of spruce or tamarac, or else the inner bark of the elm, tamarac, leatherwood, or pignut hickory. (See A in illustration.)
Begin at the bottom and cover them with the boughs cut twenty or thirty inches long, and each one attached to the poles at D in the illustration.
If you chance to have an abundance of birch bark, it is even simpler. Cut the birch bark as large as possible and insert a row of sheets at the bottom, brown side up, overlapping at the up-and-down joints instead of setting the bark pieces side ..text pokračuje
