![]() ![]() Be sure the ends emerge between the two turns as shown.Pass the working end over the standing part and then under the riding turn and standing part, forming an overhand knot under a riding turn.Make a turn around the object and bring the working end back over the standing part.There are also at least three methods to tie the constrictor knot in the bight and slip it over the end of an object to be bound. The method shown below is the most basic way to tie the knot. ![]() Day relates that, "she had never seen it in Finland, she wrote to me in 1954, but had learned about it from a Spaniard named Raphael Gaston, who called it a whip knot, and told her it was used in the mountains of Spain by muleteers and herdsmen." The Finnish name "ruoskasolmu" ("whip knot") was a translation from Esperanto, the language Ropponen used to correspond with Gaston. Finnish scout leader Martta Ropponen presented the knot in her 1931 scouting handbook Solmukirja ("Knot Book"), the first published work known to contain an illustration of the constrictor knot. The constrictor knot was clearly described but not pictured as the "timmerknut" ("timber knot") in the 1916 Swedish book Om Knutar ("On Knots") by Hjalmar Öhrvall. Hyatt Verrill illustrated Burgess' clove hitch variation in Knots, Splices and Rope Work. Burgess copied from Bowling, he changed this text to merely state "when the ends are knotted, the builder's knot becomes the gunner's Knot." Although this clove hitch with knotted ends is a workable binding knot, Burgess was not actually describing the constrictor knot. He wrote, "The Gunner's knot (of which we do not give a diagram) only differs from the builder's knot, by the ends of the cords being simply knotted before being brought from under the loop which crosses them." Oddly, when J. in relation to the clove hitch, which he illustrated and called the "builder's knot". Ashley's publication of the knot did bring it to wider attention.Īlthough the description is not entirely without ambiguity, the constrictor knot is thought to have appeared under the name "gunner's knot" in the 1866 work The Book of Knots, written under the pseudonym Tom Bowling. Although Ashley seemed to imply that he had invented the constrictor knot over 25 years before publishing The Ashley Book of Knots, research indicates that he was not its originator. *As with many things, practice will keep knot tying methods fresh in your mind, so it doesn't hurt to keep a length of cord on you just for that purpose anytime you have a spare few minutes, and maybe you can teach someone else while you're at it.First called "constrictor knot" in Clifford Ashley's 1944 work The Ashley Book of Knots, this knot likely dates back much further. Many different knots could be used for any given situation, so there's times where you might wish you didn't know more than a few knots because you waste time deciding which one to use. I imagine many folks get by in life with just knowing the shoestring knot, although I wonder if they even know that when I see so many people wearing slip on type shoes, flipflops, and crocs just about everywhere nowadays. Monkey's Fist, when done just right and even on all sides, they just look cool.Ĭobra stitch/Solomon bar/Portuguese sinnet/square knotting, and probably goes by a few more names for this ancient useful and decorative knot. To me they're like working a puzzle and I find myself looking for things to put them on. ![]() Turk's Head knots, there are infinite variations for these and being a mathematical knot, I still don't quite understand them. Overhand knot, it's the basis for many other knots and useful as a simple stopper knot.Ī few 'decorative' knots that work well with paracord: Trucker's hitch, good for tightly cinching down a line. Tautline hitch, to secure a line to a fixed point.Ĭonstrictor knot, useful to tie up and secure loose material.ĭouble fisherman's bend, to securely tie two cords together. There are several variations but the basic one will do and adding a half hitch or two after the knot makes it even more secure. A few 'working' knots that are good to know that I've used with paracord, in no particular order:īowline, for a fixed loop. ![]()
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