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My online Moby Dick book club's reading for the week starts with Chapter 47, "The Mat Maker", which opens with Queequeg and Ishmael working on sword mats. Since on the nerd Venn diagram I sit at the intersection of "in an online Moby Dick book club" *and* "a member of the International Guild of Knot Tyers"", I decided to tie an example of a sword mat (which is the flat part of this assembly; the ring at the end is technically a simple ringbolt hitch.)
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A small knot practice area and instructional card at Museum Spakenburg. Because I know quite a few knots, this is always an interesting view into a language I don't speak. Since there was a length of rope that was otherwise unoccupied I left them a small Turk's head. In English, clockwise from top, these would be a bowline, a fisherman's knot, a figure eight stopper, a square knot (aka a reef knot), and a sheet bend.
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#BostonWeekend 36x through Sun - KNOTS - International Guild of #Knot Tyers meeting At The New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts https://igktna.org/igktna-events/igkt-na-agm-2025
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A small lanyard for to hold my badge at this weekend's International Guild of Knot Tyers-North America annual meeting at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Relatively simple as these things go, just something I could complete in an evening.
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Well, it's the tail end of #WorldKnotTyingDay (marked on the anniversary of Clifford W. Ashley's death.) I had grabbed the supplies to make this bellrope a few weeks back, and finally put the homemade fid to good use making it tonight.
This one is my stab at Mikko Snellman's one-piece bellrope, tied in 8mm hemp. Still needs to have the strays burned off and to be shellacked.
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Just a couple of Portuguese sennit (Solomon Bar/Square-knotted) bracelets tied up in 3mm cotton, just for the heck of it. Footrope knots for the fastening buttons, left a bit of the ends frayed out, again for the heck of it.
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Have a rope splicing project on the to-do list, and the hemp line I'm working with is pretty stiff. Haven't owned a decent splicing/Swedish fid in years, so made myself one from a scrap of 1/2" copper pipe and a bit of oak dowel. Not too bad considering I did this all with hand tools, whittled handle and all, although I'm going to take a second stab at it with the other section of copper pipe.
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Had a request from one of the offspring, so tied up another one. Same dealio: bellrope-style keyfob, Matthew Walker knot at the loop, crown sinnet, and a footrope knot.
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A bellrope-style keychain pendant, tied in 3mm cotton cord. The loop is the center of the two cords, unlaid then relaid together, joined with a 4-strand Matthew Walker Knot, a sequence of Crown Sinnet, finished with a Footrope Knot.
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A 5-lead, 4-bight Turk's Head converted into a Gaucho knot, then doubled. At least, I'm pretty sure I got the conversion right—this is a new one to me.
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Bought a small set of tools sized for the small cord I've been using (and paracord), which came with this marlinspike/case. Re-tied the paracord lanyard it came with with something a bit more decorative than the overhand knot it came with, and tied a purely decorative 4B5L turk's head around the case itself, just because.
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A 7-bight, 3-lead (7B3L) Turk's Head, tied as a mat, basically using the technique of ABOK#1217.
A 3-lead Turk's Head is pretty much the first "fancy" knot I learned, and I have tied many, many, many 3-lead Turk's Heads over the years back in my camp days, but not usually as mats (except for the occasional knot board).
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A globe knot, ABOK#2218, tied with two strands and doubled, covering a ping-pong ball. The 4 ends are tied off with a double wall knot (from memory, didn't look up the number in the Ashley book.)
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Tonight's practice, to keep myself occupied while finishing off this season of "The Bear".
ABOK#2271, a mat started with overlapping half-hitches (in much the same way you'd start a masthead knot, just with a few more loops.) In fact, I'm pretty sure I've tied a version of this that did start with a masthead at some point in the past.
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Just a quick one tonight, a doubled Sailor's Knife Lanyard Knot, ABOK#788. I realized as I was fairing up the knot that there was another copy of this same knot on the lanyard of the rigging knife I was using.
The knife is at least 40 years old, bought at Moby Dick Marine Specialties back when they still had military surplus, I tied the lanyard almost that long ago. It's in better shape than the knife (broken pivot pin for the marlinspike.)
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More practice.
ABOK#797. Don't think I've ever tried to tie this particular one before.
Learned two things: this one is a right bastard to fair up properly, at least in this cord; and using super-thin bicolor cord like this with my aging eyesight is perhaps not the easiest way to do this. 😆
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More practice.
5-bight, 6-lead Turk's Head (Don't know if there's a specific Ashley Book number for this one. ABOK#??)
The lanyard is a Monkey's Fist with a glass marble core (ABOK#2202, but quadrupled), a two-strand Matthew Walker knot (ABOK#776), a True Lover's Knot (ABOK#2418), and a Sailor's Knife Lanyard Knot (ABOK#787), with a loop finished in with some sewn whipping since the scrap piece I was working with was too short for other options.
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More practice. Rectangular mat (ABOK #2272). Faired up a bit between doubling and tripling the knot. A bit too much—had to work a few inches of slack back through the knot, still could stand to be a little looser.
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Found a fresh spool of thin stuff when cleaning the garage yesterday, so practice, practice, practice.
Ocean Plat (ABOK #2243)
