Knot Tying

Turtle · #1 (**permalink**) 09-24-2006, 08:42 PM

Here come da poll...here come da poll...

Vote your knot knowledge quantitatively in the poll, and post you knot knowledge trivia here in the associate thread the poll is tied to. Bow-lieve it or Knot!

Turtle · #2 (**permalink**) 09-24-2006, 11:10 PM

Whew!!! After I posted the thread I got to thinking I misspelled tying!!!

Fortunately I speelled it kurect.

So I voted 10 or more and went over in my head which knots I felt I knew and which knots not. Heres my list of 10:
square knot
granny knot
sheet bend
clove hitch
half hitch
reef knot (also called magic knot )
hangman's knot
slip knot
bow
bowline

I also know how to splice and backsplice braided rope, but I didn't think that counted as knots. I wonder if the vote for one or fewer is more than faceteous.

Feel free to post up any knots not on my list, or your own list regardless of content (or not).

C1ay · #3 (**permalink**) 09-25-2006, 03:47 AM

Overhand
Granny
Square (Reef)
Bowline
French Bowline
Various sheepshanks
Figure of eight
Tautline hitch
Dolly or trucker's hitch
Clove Hitch
Various lashings
Stevedore
Surgeon's knot
Bloodknot
Clinch knot
Diamond knot
Elongated diamond knot
Various turk's heads
Matthew walker knot
Various monkey fists
Sheet bend
Various carrick bends
Timber hitch
Bowstring knot
Artillery knot
Various hangmans
Half hitch
Many more.....

I can also tie quite a number of splices, backsplices and whippings; braid with any number of strands in a variety of flat, square and round braids. I am also fond of the mathematics of knots and knotting...

I also recommend this knot tying game for youngsters. It has a stack of cards with various knots on them. A player draws a card and turns it over and the first player to finish that knot gets a point and draws the next card. More kids really should learn how to tie knots so they're not trying to secure their belongings to the moving truck with an assortment of slipknots and granny hitches

Tormod · #4 (**permalink**) 09-25-2006, 06:23 AM

Sheesh...I know about 4 knots but I couldn't name them if my life depended upon it.

Turtle · #5 (**permalink**) 09-25-2006, 08:12 AM

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Originally Posted by C1ay

Many more.....

I can also tie quite a number of splices, backsplices and whippings; braid with any number of strands in a variety of flat, square and round braids. I am also fond of the mathematics of knots and knotting...

I also recommend this knot tying game for youngsters. It has a stack of cards with various knots on them. A player draws a card and turns it over and the first player to finish that knot gets a point and draws the next card. More kids really should learn how to tie knots so they're not trying to secure their belongings to the moving truck with an assortment of slipknots and granny hitches

I received that game as a gift C1ay; I only now wish I had bothered to play it more! It even comes with short sections of cord for practice. Now I must try and find it and review before I'm sentenced to 50 lashes.

Have you ever tried doing any plaiting? By all means post up anything that you find particularly interesting on the topology, as you have me hanging by a thread.

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Originally Posted by Tormod

Sheesh...I know about 4 knots but I couldn't name them if my life depended upon it.

Quick T, say bow!

Boerseun · #6 (**permalink**) 09-25-2006, 08:32 AM

Once a knot's gotta name, it's not a knot, not?

IT'S A NAVAL FASHION STATEMENT!!!

***

On a more serious note, I was in the navy. For a Grand Total of One Week.
So I'm not one to speak - but I make a killer bowtie, however...

C1ay · #7 (**permalink**) 09-25-2006, 08:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Turtle

Have you ever tried doing any plaiting?

I have always considered the term plaiting synonymous with braiding? Are you asking about something other than braiding?

Turtle · #8 (**permalink**) 09-25-2006, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by C1ay

I have always considered the term plaiting synonymous with braiding? Are you asking about something other than braiding?

I thought I was, but apparently not. Is it proper to differentiate a plait as a flat braid?

PS I believe plaits use an even number of strands wheras braids use odd numbers?

Turtle · #9 (**permalink**) 09-25-2006, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by C1ay

I also recommend this knot tying game for youngsters. It has a stack of cards with various knots on them. A player draws a card and turns it over and the first player to finish that knot gets a point and draws the next card. More kids really should learn how to tie knots so they're not trying to secure their belongings to the moving truck with an assortment of slipknots and granny hitches

I found mine! First thing I notice is the advert you link to says manufactured by Ramco, and my box says manufactured by Marco on the outside but Ramco on the cards.

; box reads ages 8 to adult.
The kit includes 2 pieces of cord (it comes with one and says cut it in half), 2 toggles, and in my case 49 cards. One of these have advertising for religious games, one has instructions, and one lists the reduction in breaking strength of a rope for different types of knots.
PS I listed sheep shank but on reviewing the cards I see that's wrong

and it's the sheet bend I know. Minus 4 points for me.

I misapplied miller's knot too. It's knot in the cards, so minus 8 and 2 lashes.

Turtle · #10 (**permalink**) 09-25-2006, 11:16 AM

I am fit to be tied over all the errors I now find I have made.

I found a scout site in the UK with animations and have it linked below. In looking it over I see that a square knot and a reef knot are the same knot so my list is wrong is wrong...again...prolly still!

Be sure to check out the thief knot there to see how it differs from the reef/square knot. Avast there land lubbers.

http://www.42brghtn.mistral.co.uk/knots/42ktmenu.html