I’ve been quite interested the old knot work and stylings of the marlinspike seamen. I tie knots for fun on a regular basis. Here are some pictures of a few things I’ve worked on recently.
The following is a fish scale wrap, snake knot handle with a 5 bight, 7 lead, 3 ply turkshead in the middle
The is a wrap made for a lighter. It’s unfinished. But I thought it looked nice at this stage. It’s starts as a sinnet, then to a mathew walker and finally a standing turkshead with an epoxy layer on top.
This was simply practice. I wanted to tie a herringbone pattern and I was curious how tight I could get the wrap around some PVC. I wanted to know if I could twist the grip off by hand. I found out that after heaving on each strand I couldn’t get it to budge.
I made this to compare a monkey’s fist and a globe knot of the same size.
