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I think , as regards tightening up the hauling part, you will find great difficulty in making the turns that are a necessary part of your suggestions.... You will also find that ,should you allow a little slack to permit the last turn and then begin to firm-up that slack, what happens is that...

In use as a Timber hitch, the serpentine tail of the dead end just gives a friction grip on the dod of timber being hauled. The haul is assisted and taken by means of a half hitch placed some distance apart , in the line of haul, from the spot where the Timber Hitch was placed. Thats how it...

Hmm, I still believe that you're after naming just that single full wrap, as you say "hardly a knot at all". Quite rightly so. With that and my previous post in mind, my offering of a name, to suit, would have to be the, "Ono". For as sure as eggs is eggs, that is what folk will be saying ( or...

I think the OP is looking for a name referring to the first part of the knot "structure" as it is initially laid-in ..so, if my assumption is correct, then that'd be either a , "full turn" or a "single twist" . IMHO the resulting knot is very prone to slippage,unless it lays hard atop of...

As to the "why" of maintaining some old skill sets, I can only speak for myself...and I have come to believe that I've a recognition of the worthiness and personal benefit of a tangible contact with the Past. I've been lucky and glad to have learned some old things and I continue to both...

Oh abso-bloomin-lutely. Ive been an old-style rope and wire fan for more years than I can recall . Just a single whiff of tar is enough to recall memories of over 60 years ago. I still think tar is the best, most durable preservative of rope and wire . Mikko's channel is one of very few that...

I saw that recently and, by golly it was chilling to say the least...and , when deep sea, to think that I would chafe at the prospect of doing a couple of weeks over my 10 months trip. On the other hand, our Pilot Books for Polar regions was full of potentially useful tips on how to make...

Having always been interested in and an exponent of old-school celestial nav, I've long held the work of Frank Worsley as being the temple veil of what is achievable with a well adjusted ham-bone and a good watch. The latter day analysis of Worsleys sight-book and notes , by Bergman,Mearns...

Hey, that's a bit of alright, alright Regards Ceeg

Have a look at Scottish Bothies.... some of 'em look pretty wild to Me. Ceeg

Me too. Ceeg

+1 ref 'wooden handles'.. I have long thought that such things had some form of magnet-like attraction for people 'of their hands'. What other reason can there be, that a bucket full of wooden handles has the power to draw such folk, unerringly across the width of a 3 acre car-boot sale ...

O.T. That Gnome has the same effect on me too. I have this image of the Falstaffian Brian Blessed, giving out his trademark belly laugh

Wow, and here's me thinking that the sequence for a lonnng, chevron style Turk Head was complicated . I really don't know the half of it! But I don't see myself swapping any of my tame marline spikes any time soon. On the other hand, I have often thought of directing my canvas sewing skills in...

I hadn't noticed before but that's an eight-strand square sennet that spirals up his hat....theres no way to knit in something like that, surely it was made separately and hitched on. It isn't so well known, that the 8 strand square, (of Hemp ?), well waxed with graphite grease, was sold by the...

Coincidently, I came across something similar in appearance to the Gnome, though it isn't knitted. They're called Sauna Elves. Have a look at the latest from Mikko Snelleman, a very well thought of Finnish knot tyer. Rgds Ceeg

Very much like the sort of charkhus carried by the Kalashi's right up to the 1960's. Almost all of them made by the travelling smithy, who made everything from ploughshares to penny nails. Some similar folders were made with an extra long blade and always looked as if they were fixed blades...

I think that is about the most humorous effect that it's possible to get from a few thousand rib-stitches . ....' I'm needing a cross word or two with that Barber of mine'... Ceeg

From Spring to early Autumn I can get away a seagrass hat of a type associated with Aussie golfers. Then, as the days shorten, either of my wide-brims or, if it's really pelting down, a home made cour-boule job that is almost solid with beeswax. Dry but bitter cold Winters have me in a Russian...

I've used them several times in the last couple of years and have never had any late deliveries or other issues . Ceeg