Bottle net

[spandit]

Started this at the Sussex meet & finished today (with long cord it's a long process)

Technique is on Stormdrane's blog. This is a £ shop bottle with £ shop utility cord - paracord is a bit thinner & would look better but this was cheap!

 

[shaggystu]

very nice mate. i have to ask, how often do they let you out of your cage?

 

[Urban X]

That looks like a labour of love

What are those £shop bottles like?


Si

 

[spandit]

It was a bit but then why carve a spoon when you could just buy one? I like to think this has more purpose than a paracord bracelet - it serves a function (net can be removed from bottle & used for something else) and stores quite a length of cord should I need it.

The bottles are fine - I've had a bit of corrosion inside my other one but nothing dramatic. Well worth the money.

 

[Mesquite]

Have you got the link to the blog you mentioned?

 

[spandit]

Have you got the link to the blog you mentioned?

Bit ironic that to find this for you I just used Google, but here you are:

http://stormdrane.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/cow-hitched-paracord-water-bottle.html?m=1

 

[Urban X]

Ah I see now it's not actually knotted, ooh I'd have to be really desperate for some cordage to rip that apart lol.

If I attempted that, it and the bottle it houses would end up costing me a new window I reckon, I haven't got the patience and it'd look a mess if I did have.

Good stuff on the bottles I'll grab a couple next time I'm in. I keep looking at them but that's as far as I get. Cheers


Si

 

[asemery]

Great combination - functional as well as good looking. Tony

 

[Hammock_man]

Simply the best use of £1.98 I have ever seen. 10 out of ten

 

[spandit]

Simply the best use of £1.98 I have ever seen. 10 out of ten

I'm intrigued. I mentioned I'd bought them from the £ shop when I had, as you surmise, bought them from the 99p shop... How did you know or was it a lucky guess?

 

[crosslandkelly]

That looks really good. Again something that is multi functional. The £ shop bottles are great for keeping meths in, or lamp oil.
Colin.

 

[bilmo-p5]

Ah I see now it's not actually knotted, ...

How is it made then?

 

[Biker]

That's pretty damned clever that! Nice one!

I think I'd be like Urban X on this too, I'd drop a stitch somewhere and just have to hurl it to vent my spleen!

Saw those bottle in a £shop in Westwood Cross in Thanet the other week and got all snobby figuring they were a waste of a quid. sorta regretting not buying one now. Oh well there's always the next time I'm there.

 

[spandit]

They're not actually difficult to make. Basically a series of hitches - there is a version that just uses half hitches on the blog.

Most difficult bit is getting it started but once you get underway it's just repetition. Dropping a stitch would be quite difficult. I can give a demo at the Sussex meet in May if required

 

[grey-array]

Indeed and its kinda therapeutic too in my opinion, almost like crocheting.
And though I agree with Spandit on the paracord would have looked sweeter thing, I still have to agree on

Simply the best use of £1.98 I have ever seen. 10 out of ten

, one question though I had a similar bottle, is the issolative value of yours also so crappy I used to burn myself when cycling to the station when there was hot tea in it, resulting in when I finally was at the station to enjoy my cup of tea it was cold.
Yours sincerely and Admiring Ruud
I like knots ^^

 

[spandit]

It's a thin metal bottle so it's never going to be much of an insulator. My other bottle, which has a different paracord net around it, is used as a hot water bottle occasionally. The net keeps it from burning me.

With this one I'd imagine you'd get a string vest effect - a thin cover over the top & it might be effectively insulated

 

[bilmo-p5]

Not knocking continuous hitching in any way at all, but I've found that a spare pair of socks works very well for containing an alu bottle in hot-water-bottle mode.

If you hit Google images with 'needle hitching' you'll find any number of variations.

 

[spandit]

Socks would be far more effective! This was an exercise in craft - does allow the bottle to be clipped securely to things

 

[monkey boy]

its a really good idea, iv got a few of these £ shop bottles, they are as good as any other bottle u can buy

 

[grey-array]

hmm maybe a nice new project to add to the list for me, a Bottlesock with net?
Hmm good stuff and good tip there Bilmo thanks for that ^^
Yours sincerely Ruud