...Ey up firebugs!
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...The scraping technique with a spoon for extracting fibres was a great discovery for me but it can be rather time consuming to produce large amounts. Luckily my buddy Malachi over @rocky_instincts sent me some great links to processing agave leaves in central America.
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...The leaves are first lightly baked in hot ashes to help break down the fleshy material & this process also helps neutralise the itchiness from the sap Next the leaves are hung over a flat board traped up against your waist & scraped with a right angled piece of hard wood in a downward motion with both hands.
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...This greatly speeds up the process & ultimately the amount of cordage you can produce. Going to have to practice my thigh rolling too to speed things up a little as I'm gonna need quite a lot of cordage for some projects I've got in mind.
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... I'll catch ya soon guys !