YET AGAIN FROM DON WRIGHT
some eggs and CROSSES in the making. Enjoy !
Added
December 5th
From Don WRIGHT
: using Nono's 360F spherical cover Don made a second egg ( the
first one is in my glass showcase with my other treasures,
Don gave it to me with many other
of his works. See
his three latest works here
Added 2011 Nov
16th
From Stefanos FANIDIS
A 5-PASS
(not many have been done ! ) Standard HERRINGBONE knot ( DO NOT,
like too many persons, confounded those with Standard
Herringbone-PINEAPPLE knots)
5 THK components 5L4B which make for an overall 25L 20B
One can have tutorials (
first one - second
one ) in my pages
From GEORGE HUTCHINSON :
his rendering of the Prince EDWARDS ' carrick bracelet (
see this common venture questing fro this bracelet on
Friends-page_8
) George's bio
The cordage chosen suits very well a neat realisation IMO:
May be you will find this tutorial I made which show
the numbering of the PINS
on the grid.
Added 2011 Oct 12th
TRICOLOUR WHEEL
DON WRIGHT reactivated his hands and ropes and make us this beautiful
three colours
wheel.
Neat and clean as usual from him.
Added 2011 Oct 4th
A PROGRAM FOR MÖBIUS STRIP The name of the program is
rozeta. ( not rozetta not roseta and not rosetta )
STRUKTOR contacted me yesterday to impart the
existence of
his programs.
The following quote gives all the needed information; Enjoy !
[open quote]
Salut
I developed a new method of manufacturing knots in the shape of the
head of the Turkish
Mobius strip.
It has the advantage that it allows these nodes to plait on normal
tools used for ordinary
Turkish head knots.
The idea is to add extra bights, which only serve to simulate the half
turn on the cylinder,
or a plane and disappear after pulling the knot and Mobius strip
molding.
This method works well for an even number of laps of the leads.
For an odd number of leads, the order of interlaces can be locally
broken, that is why I
didn't take them under consideration.
I did not make a separate index for Mobius Turk's Head knots, because
you can use the
index for the ordinary Turk's Head knots, adding extra
bights.
Easy to see that for even leads we have formula: extra bights = leads /
2
Version 2 ( repairs were needed after a little mishap due to little
groping hands ! ) of his dragonflies
mobile.
I like the cute worm.
Nothe the top center : sun on a cloud
[open quote] I've been making
these for a time now. Depending on the cordage, these can be
surprisingly useful.
In small
("finger-sized") PolyPropylene, you can have a dishwashing brush ... ... that floats in
the sink...
In
larger natural cordage, it will move ALL the sawdust or lathe chips or
eraser dust or
'whatever' out of the way, or clear sand and dirt from
your shoes...
It's
obviously nothing but a back-splice (e.g. 2817), whipped after "enough"
length. I like to
whip it first with Nylon hauled Very Tight,
then cover that with a nice natural hitchery. The
white one
was
too flexible, hence the extended hitching, which stiffened up the part
it
covered while leaving the exposed splice soft in the hand.
Obviously
they can be made more attractive than these! To me, since I
expect these will be
consumed over time, I just practice tucking (or
backing -- later!) until it's long enough then
whip, (hitch?), fray
(why is it that "ravel" and "UNravel" mean the same thing?) and
sweep.
"Close enough" is probably more work than they're
ultimately worth. But when you're done,
you'll find ways to
use
them!
Also, if the end is
well whipped, you can take the last piece with the whipping and use it
for
a fingernail-cleaning brush!
