OT: Any Knot Hobbyists?

[Repack Rider]

I tie fancy knots. Here are a few. Anyone else here play with string?

[Curve_in]

I tie fancy knots. Here are a few. Anyone else here play with string?
Those are nice!


http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161218/18e809000a950056e39898360911fd7a.jpg

Here a square sennet from my days of sailing the seven seas.

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[Geeheeb]

I went to visit a replica of either the nina or pinta, and they had turks head knots all over the thing. I set my 12 year old mind to learn how to tie one of those, but that is as far as I took it. These are super cool and maybe I will pick it up again someday.

[merlinmurph]

That's very cool stuff. I grew up on boats and really appreciate knot skills.

Not sure if this counts, but I used to use gimp as a kid, and will occasionally use those stitches with string or rope.

Thanks for sharing.

[Peter P.]

I'm not a knot hobbiest but I did have a need to learn about 20 years ago. Bought a book and learned the basics.

Fast forward to Halloween 2016, and my decorations for the trick or treaters included a noose, just like you see in those western movies, including the exact same, heavy rope, which I hung from the light adjacent to my front door. When I was at Lowe's picking up the rope, I was tempted to tie a noose in the end of the rope spool but I figured someone would probably call the police. ;-)

Anyway, one of the trick or treaters asked his mom, who told me; he wondered whether I tied the knot myself. Kid was either in awe or scared I knew how to do that!

[jamesau]

Nothing fancy from me. I do tie my shoes lickety split with the "Ian Knot":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OazKbYP7Sd0

Also appreciate many practical knots from my sailing days and keep an app on my phone for reference for those times when I need one.

[classtimesailer]

Steel Bikes, Wooden Boats, and Rope/Cord/String: These are a few of my favorite things.
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[martl]

i do knots occasionally. When storing my ipod headphones in my trousers pockets

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[Tickdoc]

I'm afrayed not:eek:

Really cool stuff.

[redir]

That's cool! As a caver and a sailor I've had to learn and be proficient in a fair share of practical use knots but I never realized there was an aesthetic to it.

[kramnnim]

When I was 8-9, I was very much in to knots. Got this book from the library and spent many hours copying the pictures...

http://www.hpbmarketplace.com/Encyclopedia-of-Knots-and-Fancy-Rope-Work-Raoll-Graumont/book/23117666

...I haven't thought about that book in decades.

[Repack Rider]

Steel Bikes, Wooden Boats, and Rope/Cord/String: These are a few of my favorite things.
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Beautiful work. I studied it for a while, looks like you did eye splices at the end that closes the bag. Is that right?

Also, nice Matthew Walker knots and I love the round sinnet.

Is the outer fat part of the handle and the two Matthew Walker knots a separate piece of cord? Trying to figure out how you did that.

[classtimesailer]

It is 3 pieces of cord 7 feet long, braided in the middle for 3 inches, doubled over, then the MW, sennit, MW, and then just a seizing to make the eye. None of it my design. I followed the ditty bag directions in The Marlinspike Sailer by Hervey Garret Smith. I intend to make another lanyard but with 3/16 three strand rope instead of the Ace Hardware cotton cord. Much fun.

[seaswood]

Took a month at sea, one of two month each.

https://photos.smugmug.com/Chelsea/i-dL92DSB/0/M/IMG_0358-M.jpg

[SoCalSteve]

Do Bolans and come-alongs count? I learned those two knots 35 years ago when I started in the movie business. Those are the two knots used to tie down items inside a truck.

Now a days they use ratchet straps. We didn't have those back then. And truth be told, I still don't quite understand how to use one...:confused:

[Schmed]

I've sailed a bit and only came away with one knot that I use for everything. Bowline. Pronounced "bow lin", right? It's all I got, but it serves me well.

"That's what he said."

[Repack Rider]

My uncle showed me a knot that isn't in Ashley. He ties a "trucker's hitch" with half a sheepshank. Most such hitches that I have seen use a slipknot to create the loop, which can be tightened to the point of being hard to untie. You can toggle the loop on the sheepshank to keep it from spilling.

I have done several of Ashley's solid sinnets, 31 strands the most I have used. You have to build a little loom to keep track of them. Not quite ready for the 61 strand five-point star!

[Tickdoc]

this thread reminded me of a favorite photo:

the knot that held the door to the burial vault of King Tut, tied in 1833, and then opened in 1922.

http://68.media.tumblr.com/5b5b8af2f29573109f4be0a124fa568c/tumblr_n32guffqTW1qz4s6ho1_1280.jpg

[bobswire]

A friend from Japan posted this photo on his facebook page, thought it tied well into this thread. :)

http://i68.tinypic.com/2nia8pd.jpg