It's a
"Double-Wrapped Ring Hitch", of course, at the GPS, made with a Brummel
Eye. The bury of the
Eye is led back OUT of the core, to form the neck loop, then the ends
are tucked as Ashley's Telescope Splice ("Snakehead") at ABoOK
#2687. To taper the
"Snakehead", lead the ends back out again, cut or scrape to a point,
then suck them back in by "milking" the cordage as in the Double Braid
Eye Splice. [end quote]
Added
2009 March 15th JIMBO
A VERY ASTUTE HITCH for a keyfob, the return
:
there is more than just "making knots", there is also
ERGONOMY !
And here is the story by Jimbo himself ( in green
- in blue my addition )
....I asked
you ( to Roy Chapmam)
about making a fid without a lathe. You started
with "First, take a block plane..." Then you had to move on.
I ran with
that, imagining "... then whittle away everything that doesn't look
like a fid."
What the heck, it works for elephants.
We happen to
have a well-dried White Oak down in the back yard, which has lots of
good wood in it, around the wood-borer holes. I took a limb,
cut off a straight part, and began.
WHEW!!!
Hours later,
here's what came out:
PHOTO 1 After shaping
on the belt sander, hand sanding, and a coat of Tung Oil (wet sand w/
400 grit, using a 50-50 blend of Tung & Turp), it looks like
this:
PHOTO 2 (The
smudge-looking dark spots are where I need to sand some more.
Notice the
spalting in the grain.)
PHOTO 3 Here's a shot
from earlier today: (Notice the
bug in the hole? I didn't until just now. This log
was full of bugs.) PHOTO
4 I hate to
brag, but I really got lucky to get this to come out so pretty...
Jimbo it is all right to brag when there is something to brag
about and
this is certainly, in my
book at least, a thing to brag about.
Your have the compliments of
Mathias ( for those who don't know, Mathias is my son and an
art wood turner )
There is a tradition in France : the true craftsman ( le Compagnon du
Tour de France**) had to make his own set of tools to be considered
really knowleadgeable.
** Tour de France as understood here is not the yearly
summer
Cycles Competition but
the 2, 3, ...7 yearsspent
'on the road' travelling all over France ( to get different traditions
from different "Masters") honing one's skill in the chosen craft. Les Compagnons are members of a Guild
(there is not only one but several ! )
Even nowadays Un Compagnon is held as " an exceptional craftsman".
Would that knots tyers could be 'Compagnons" ! ;-)
Added
2009 March 06th JIMBO AGAIN :
A VERY ASTUTE HITCH for a keyfob
The Ring Hitch, Strap
Hitch, Bale Sling Hitch, Lark's Head, or Tag
Knot. ABoK #'s 59, 1694, 1699, 1700,
1858 - 1861, 1868,
1890, etc.,
etc. Known by many names (so that's where all the words
went!), it is
a HITCH, by definition. And it doesn't lock
itself into place. Say, if you use it to tie a wee
becket to a
keyring ... When pressure is
removed from the Standing Part, a Ring Hitch slacks
off.
I wanted to improve
this Hitch to use with a key fob. It
would make a
nice Hitch for a permanent lanyard too.
It had to be
attractive enough to take out in public, yet easy to tie
through a ring without involving entangling
ends as some key fobs end
in Eye Splices. I think you'll see it can be used on a lot of
semi-permanent fastenings, but YBTJ. "Jimbo's Turtleneck
Hitch" (Singled and Doubled -- you can triple it or
more, if you have the nerve.) is a silly
name, not to be countenanced,
so I'm hoping for suggestions or hopefully it's already documented...?
Whatever you call it,
I think it's a pretty knot with a double bearing
on the ring or rail, and a nice matching
"collar" that seems to me to
resemble a two-strand Matthew Walker.
Assume the rail in
the pictures is an endless rail or a ring or tool or
becket or anything else where you want to
fasten a loop in a cord
without access to the ends of the "hitchee".
First, the classic
Ring Hitch, Strap Hitch, Bale Sling Hitch, Lark's
Head, or Tag Knot. (Photo N° 1
to N° 4)
Part 2. ( Photo N°
5 to N° 12 )
Evolution Begins.
The following sets of
photographs illustrate the evolution of the knew
knot.
Tuck the Standing
Part through the Bight or Eye just like you did the
first time. This time, leave the Bight or
Eye loose and tuck
the
Standing Part again, around the same arm in the same
direction. When
you pull the Standing Part to tighten the knot, you'll notice the wrap spills into the
Eye. The Standing Part will straighten out,
each of
the bearing Turns around the ring will wrap up
the Standing Part from
its own side. Keep it fair as you tighten.
That's all there
really is to this trick. The rest is all
incremental.
Second, Putting the
first kink around the Standing Part. (Photo N° 5 to
N° 12)
Part
3. (Photo N° 13 to N° 23 )
Moving Up.
Third, getting
another kink around the Standing Part. You'll
notice
that the first evolution leaves the effect of
a single turn on one side
and two on the other. If you're okay with that, you're done,
go on
outside to play. If you're into symmetry and balance, this is
the important
part. (Photo N° 13 to N° 23) Tuck as before, but
add yet
another tuck. Resist the urge to
keep tucking, but this is
where you
would do that, if you really wanted to. The more you tuck,
the harder
it is to spill and fair, but it'll all go. You can repeat for
as many
tucks as you like, but I'm content with this. This way, I
have a
double bearing on the ring and a fair double wrap holding the Standing Part.
It's balanced.
Part 4. (Photo N° 24 till the last )
Showing
Off. (YIPPEEEE!!! We're finally
done!!) It takes a bit of
fiddling to get the wraps to spill over
into the eye. Then
it's even
more fiddly to get the eye laid around the Standing Part properly, so
it crosses fairly once in the front, once in the back.
Then
it gets
really hard. Making the "far"
bight (the end of the eye, up
there
along the Standing Part) ride
over the "inside" crossing takes some
doing, especially if you got tuck-happy; but once
the riding turns
"stack up", and you fair them and tighten the whole thing, one of the
bearing turns around the ring will wrap around the outside from the
bottom up, and the other
will wrap up through the inside.
None of it
should "reach" or appear awkward or
inefficient. It's very
tight and
compact when it's faired up right.
I just made up a loop
with a Matthew Walker to show you this
hitch. That was not 'just' to show how much this
Hitch resembles a
MW!! If
you're planning on doing one in an eye, this will let you measure
it
before you put it in. Once you know how big of a loop you
need, you know how big to make
your Long Eye Splice. The eye will make
up the
"collar" of however many turns you have
the nerve to fair, plus it will
need to reach all the way around the "hitchee" with each
leg to get the
double bearing there. So you could measure
and compute; or
model, mark
and move on. Make sure you keep it
tight, fair and straight;
make a
mark where you want the crotch of the eye to be; untie this
Hitch but
not the MW, and Bob's yer Uncle. If you arrange the
Eye size
so the
Crotch is between these "turtleneck" turns and the ring, the single
cord coming out as the Standing Part makes the double-double purchase
interesting -- it looks like two parts around the ring and
two parts
around the ... <gasp> ... ONE part??
Okay, I'm easily amused...
The
Double
Turtleneck Ring Hitch (Lark's Head With Double Chins?) holds
the key ring, the knob at the end keeps the whole mess stuck under my
belt. When I need keys, the knob (a collapsed THK) slips out
from
under the belt, but only when I pull on it. Running, jumping,
"wrasslin' on the ground", nothing shakes this loose.
Pushing it close to
a belt loop helps. [end quote]
Added the next day : when I got this last picture something
flashed through my mind :
NETSUKE and I told that to Jimbo who found a
picture that I modified a lot to illustrate.
Just compare.
