Hello!
Every
one with whom I am exchanging mails and those with whom I have not yet.
Will you accept to contribute to this page,
Either with writings (
feature on a specific topic, tutorials,...)
drawings,
photographies,
...anything you are read to lend to this page.
On a simple asking your contribution will be removed, you keep full
ownership.
Just lend some of your writings, or ideas, or inventions, or
the
pictures of the knotting you are the most
proud of....( My email can
stand heavy files so ....)
- - -This
bell rope is actually in
service at sea on France
last trois mâts barque : BELEM.
My friend Jean-Louis
ROBIC ( Igkt member -
FRANCE ) a breton
immigrated to
Marseille
in the South of France (Mediterranean seaport) made
it for the
big bell that was missing
one.
Marseille
is an harbour of very,
very old standing :
Massilia.
Boasting (they are quite apt to do a bit of that,' les Marseillais '
are) to
be the oldest town in France.
A -600 BC Greek creation.
They were of the Phocean tribe ( it is in today Turquia :
Foça ) and
Marseille is still said to be
"la citée
phocéenne", the phocean city.
Do not know why Jimbo feels that I helped in any way : idea is
his own.
Believe me he does not need any one to help him think!
NO Jimbo this not boasting this is sharing !
Many thanks for the
contribution.
CONSTRICTOR ONE HANDED : METHOD FROM ROY CHAPMAN
PHOTOGRAPHED
BY JIMBO
This manner of knotting the constrictor
was given 'over the phone' ( !) by Roy Chapman, one of the past
Igkt-PAB president,
to Jimbo who shot this sequence of photographies to show how to make it
with one hand only.
ANOTHER TRICK FOR THE CONSTRICTOR : METHOD AND
PHOTOGRAPHIES
BY JIMBO
[open quote] I gathered some knot
pictures and
found a
new knot!! Okay, it's actually a
"splice". Or maybe a
"bend"... I'm calling it
the Murrell's Inlet Pile Splice. It's so easy to
teach, I'm
sure we're
all going to stop using any other bend forever more. The picture,
attached, is worth a thousand words in any
language.
However, just to be thorough, here's how you put in a
Murrell's Inlet
Pile Splice: 1: hold one end
against the pile (piling, post, tree, vertical piece of
wood) 2: nail it in place 3: repeat with the
other end. Carve your name in
the top of the piling to show off your handiwork!
Welcome to my
world! :^/ [end quote]
A REALLY FOXY IDEA FOR EXIBITING KNOTS IN
PUBLIC
This is unashamedly stolen, err ... borrowed, from Igkt-PAB
member Clint FUNK.
In fact appeared in Knot News #58 a photo of the
real one
made by Clint but I thought that if you want to use this idea you will
have to do
some work yourself and chose the knots to be exhibited.
So simple an idea - after seeing done !- I wish I had it
first ;-)
Outstandingly efficient this multi sided approach is for a public
presentation ( four sides
berthing for those wanting 'to drop anchor' and chat ) .
Marvelous manner to help people chatting by offering what is literally
a
"common-ground'
or rather common board.
All sides can discuss a particular knot since they have an identical
outlay of them so they do
not having to bother about frame of
reference as it is in-built for them.
Outstanding idea.
I will probably steal it... Deed is done!
KNOTTING by ATRIBORD , A SAILOR IN THE FRENCH "MARINE
NATIONALE"
ALCOSINUS & NONO (Alain
Legeay et Norbert
Trupiano ) Alco.....sinusNorbert
Here all (except one) the spherical
covering
were
made by Nono.
Alcosinus sent the pictures for us and made the exception.
HERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE TRANSLATION OF THE BELT
TUTORIAL
BY
VINCE BRENNAN
JOE SCHMIDBAUER ( EditorKnot News ) gift to me : BELL ROPE Added 2007 Oct 20th
Some time ago not long) I asked Joe if he would
be kind enough to sent me some photographies of his work for this page.
Well no photography BUT the work in person : a
magnificent bell rope that is now in my glass showcase
( that is where I put my little treasures ).
With the rope was a letter explaining the story
behind the work.
Thank you from the "bottom of my heart" as they say in French for this
very friendly gesture.
Next trip to Brittany I will have to steal, borrow, buy a bell
( for my balcony ?)
Will probably put it near my kitchen
door. ( Frenches have joke : "how many rope can you find on an old sail
ship ?
Correct answer is "only one, on the cook's bell ; all the rest
have special names")