This video shows how to process yucca leaves by using a soup can to release the fibers and then reverse wrap them into strong cordage. Original Wisdom Bushcraft 2024.
What do you scrape with? Is your yucca leaf a fresh cutting? Also try immersing your yucca leaf in boiling water for 1 minute. Let cool and then try to scrape out the fibers. Please note that there are large variations in yucca species. Perhaps your source has different properties that what I am working with here. Please let us in on your progress and perhaps send pictures.
@@user-pq4il4xo9s Your stone likely has micro sharp edges from the fine crystal size of the stone you are using that are cutting into the fibers when scraping. Can you find and try a natural shell from oysters, clams or muscles? Shellfish shells are not made of crystals but mineralized deposits and should be able to provide a polished blunt edge to process the yucca leaf better that your stone scraper. Let us know how this works for you. Thanks!
Weird when i scrape yucca it fibers usually snag and break off and in the end i end with a small piece
What do you scrape with? Is your yucca leaf a fresh cutting? Also try immersing your yucca leaf in boiling water for 1 minute. Let cool and then try to scrape out the fibers. Please note that there are large variations in yucca species. Perhaps your source has different properties that what I am working with here. Please let us in on your progress and perhaps send pictures.
@@originalwisdom2491 i used fresh cutting of Adam's needle yucca. I scraped with a stone that i ground to have an edge
@@user-pq4il4xo9s Your stone likely has micro sharp edges from the fine crystal size of the stone you are using that are cutting into the fibers when scraping. Can you find and try a natural shell from oysters, clams or muscles? Shellfish shells are not made of crystals but mineralized deposits and should be able to provide a polished blunt edge to process the yucca leaf better that your stone scraper. Let us know how this works for you. Thanks!