my first net

[monkey boy]

at every sussex meet, I try to learn a new skill and then go home and practise it. on the last one kepis was doing a net making demo, which made me realise that this is a very useful skill to know and I wanted to know how to do it 
so the first thing I did was carve the tools for the job which is a skill on its own, once I had the tools I got straight to work on the net.
I used cheap plastic cord for my net, that way its not a big lose if i mess it up. I really enjoyed doing this and I thank Kepis for teaching it to me.
anyway here is my net that my cat has now claimed his

 

[the interceptor boy]

maybe you could do a review on how to carve the tools and easy to see how to make the net. cheers the interceptor boy.

 

[jackcbr]

Looking good there matey. Mines coming on, but slowly. Had to unpick a couple of times but getting there. Just doubled the number of loops and about to change to a different thread, then to reduce down again.

 

[spandit]

Missed the live tutorial as had to go. Yours looks great, Monkey Boy, what cord did you use?

 

[Kepis]

NIce one MB, you can teach Spandit how to make a net at the next meet

 

[Toddy]

Well done
Kepis too, it's not an easy thing to teach clearly.

I note that the poundland stores have garden twine in again, both plastic and hemp, good stuff to practice on and they both make pretty sound nets for storage or the garden

cheers,
M

 

[Kepis]

cheers Mary

 

[spandit]

Not as good as a live session* but a reasonable tutorial can be found here:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ferreter/nets.htm




* initial typing on the iPhone was "love session" which was also correct, I suppose

 

[asemery]

Very nice net Monkey Boy. My cat thought that net making was done for her benefit. For those ininterested - links to net making instructions (including YouTube video by Kepis) can be found here
http://pineapple.myfunforum.org/index.php?c=7 Tony