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If your rope is a double-braid construction, then, for practical purposes it's as well to be aware that once it has been subjected to any sort of significant loading, it is almost impossibly difficult to make a good job of re-splicing it. Been there, tried it many times, with many types of...

Howaay, divn't haud yer breath for folk getting shot of one. Ceeg

Have met him a couple of times at the WG ( going back a bit).....if time had allowed ,I could've easily spent the next week or five , just listening and learning Ceeg

The image http://cdn.sci-news.com/images/enlar...aking-Tool.jpg, referred by Janne, has come to my mind very often. There was always something about it that I never could quite grasp, always on the tip of my tongue, as it were. Today I was using a 5 inch long serving stick, a three holed gadget...

That's the one, Alan 13~7 Ceeg

I remember my Gran doing her Monday laundry , part of which was a pot-bellied and corrugated, galvanised barrel . As I recall, those many years past, clothes and ( hopefully)hot water were put in the barrel along with soap flakes and a chunk of Sunlight soap and the whole lot was agitated with...

Boe-lin, not Bow-lin. Grummit instead of Grommet, Shivs not sheaves, tay-kel not tackle are some of what I grew up with, but the list is both long and varied, as per country, region and all the trades and establishments therein. Ceeg

A very' Happy Birthday', to you. Ceeg

Providing you haven't broken off the little tag and there are no bits of of thread or material clogging the mechanism, try gentle pulls whilst holding the zip below the place where the gathering slide is . I have freed these same type of zipper, with just a few ice-cubes to cool things a bit...

These mats are certainly durable and ,unfortunately, dogs tend to be attracted to them when given the slightest chance. I wouldn't like to make a replacement in 18mm manila,just too expensive. Ceeg

Good job there. They are a bit good as a rigging knife. Just need a little change to the belly line and a single-side bevel. The bee's knees for whacking through a rolled-up sheet of parcelling material. Ceeg

How about the "Land of Nod", a small place in East Yorkshire.

metadata shows it Ceeg

Figure 8 turns, placed over two pins or sticks.......BUT...the best way to ensure that the turns will all run free easily, is to ensure that the bights of the successive turns are taken so that they overlap the previous those of the previous fig 8. When finished to whatever length, just take a...

of Not at all, well composed and well performed music will tend to "get" people at an emotional level, because it is made that way...and that is true of any form of Art . Ceeg

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Oh, nice one! it has never dawned on me to finish the tails off in such a way. When I don't make the long neck halter I inevitably hide the join with an applied TH.....great tip. Thanks. Ceeg

Whenever I give a knotting and splicing demo, it is nearly always this coxcombing that folk seem to take to, more than anything else, except, perhaps, needle hitching, usually done around a defunct,candlestyle lightbulb. For the ring hitching, I personally use 4mm tarred nylon braid, which is a...

Shockleader length , can depend very much on your rod action and the drop length needed for your casting style. For beaching a good fish by angling the line diagonally to the beach, means you really need to get a few turns of the leader to be on the spool, before you chance bringing the fish...

The use of marking points, is the best option. Edge turnover really needs to be minimal for things like heavy canvas. Pinning is used by those with an awful lot more patience than myself. A large span Office stapler is my preferred means of laying-in the tackings. Ceeg