Now in a new larger format, this treasure trove of Des Pawson's personal ropecraft recipes contains projects ranging from bellropes, key fobs and fenders to mats, doorstops, knife lanyards and belts. Along with fascinating tit bits of nautical history as background to many projects and guidance as to how they can be the starting point for many other items, Des gives step-by-step instructions on how to put these knots together to form the finished article, and advice on the size and lengths of the materials required - just as you would expect from a recipe book.
With this book to hand, readers will have the confidence to start making desirable objects with knots because, as Des says, this is the book that makes all other knot books work!
'Each chapter begins with some background or history, and you'll certainly never look at a frayed off-cut of rope in quite the same way again.' Classic Boat
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Canal Boat and Inland Waterways
- 113 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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Print ISBN
9781408119495
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1Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Some tips of the trade
- Simple key ring
- Shackle release lanyard in Portuguese sennit
- Deluxe key ring
- Bellrope worked with 6 ends
- Bellrope worked with 8 ends
- A simple side fender
- Side fender using the crown sennit
- Hitching over a plastic fender
- Bow fender
- Button fender
- Rope ladders
- A simple lanyard
- A fancy lanyard
- A Bosun’s chair/swing
- Rope handrails
- Cat-o-nine tails (ditty bag lanyard)
- Tiller/boat hook covering
- Binocular strap
- Covering a wheel
- Belts
- Grommets for quoits, blocks & sea chest beckets
- A pair of fancy spliced chest beckets
- Some Turk’s heads for decoration or napkin rings
- Knot board notes
- Monkey’s fist/light pull
- Monkey’s fist/door stop
- A sailor’s whisk
- Baggywrinkle
- Bowsprit net
- Dog leads
- A jib shackle
- The ocean & prolong mats
- Hitched oval mat
- Kringle mat
- Oblong deck mat
- Appendix
- Further reading
- The International Guild of Knot Tyers
- Index