On 2020-08-07 09:41, Dave Sublette wrote:
Everything I need to know about knots, I learned as a boy scout. I
have
been climbing for 63 years and the knots I use are, bowline, square
knot,
two half hitches, clove hitch, pipe hitch, square lashing (not often),
sheet bend (not often) and any of them on a bight.
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Yeah, those are the basics - two you MIGHT want to add, as they are just
darned useful
1)Prusik knot - useful for adding a bight in the middle of a line
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prusik
2)The Figure 8 knot. Not really used to tie things off, but as a
"stopper knot" - to prevent a line from falling through a pulley (or
your hand for that matter)
Then there are some of my favorites, one of you MIGHT know Dave, from
the scouts, where they often called it a Woggle - totally decorative -
the turkshead knot
And if you are working with laid rope (the ones with strands) - a
Matthew Walker or a Wall and Crown as a stopper knot. Not really more
effective than a figure 8, but a lot better looking. The other thing is
learning to splice (particularly laid rope) - a spliced loop or a splice
between two lines is WAY stronger than a knot
(disclaimer, I used to be a member of the International Guild of Knot
Tyers )
--
Charles Gallo
http://www.thegallos.com
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