The Steel Guitar Forum

Use old plain strings instead of boar bristles for stitching on the soles and sideseaming and other heavy sewing on hand made cowboy boots.

Now they would be real men's boots.

I am sorry for the confusion -- you twist a waxed and tapered end of flax linen cord on to half of a four inch piece of guitar string, or boar's bristle and use the guitar string as a needle to guide the cord through pre-punched holes. There is a trick to lock the cord onto the string, but the wax does a pretty good job of holding the cord onto the bristle, or guitar string.