Lets knot get confused...

[Martyn]

Hehe. :wink:

Found this excellent site with knot tying pictorials, I thought it might be a good reference.

http://www.iland.net/~jbritton/index.html

[martin]

http://www.tollesburysc.co.uk/Knots/Knots_gallery.htm
This ones good too.

[Justin Time]

and if you want to learn all sorts of ways to tie shoelaces try here: http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/index.htm

I'm a convert to his own knot, not bad after maybe 40 years of the same old thing.
Justin

[alick]

Also try

http://gorp.away.com/gorp/publishers/menasha/hik_knot.htm

Knots used in climbing can often be useful for other applications. e.g the double and triple fishermans which are amongst the strongest for joining 2 lengths of cord. Friction knots like the klemheist and prusik make it a doddle to repeatedly tighten up the ridge of a hoochie as it gets damp (if you don't carry elastic bungees). There are some nice pics at :

http://www.chockstone.org/TechTips.htm (scroll down for the list of knots)

The alpine butterfly is a personal favorite - a very strong knot for adding a loop partway along a cord. e.g to protect river crossings when trekking. There are a least four ways to tie it, two of these can be found on the chockstone site and another in Ray Mears Bushcraft.

Cheers Martyn - knots can be great fun, and a good way to interest the kids too. :biggthump

[Martyn]

Absolutely Alick, figure of eight, double fishermans and butterfly are my three favourite knots. Actually, they're about the only three I can remember how to tie. :D :D

This is the version of the butterfly that I know...
http://www.iland.net/~jbritton/butterflyknot.htm

/edit Oh, you can add the prusik to that also.

[Keith_Beef]

My favourite knot is the Monkey's Fist.

It's supposed to be used to weight the end of a line, so you can throw it (for example, from the deck of a boat to the quayside), but it makes a good knot to stop a line slipping throuw a hole (much bigger than a figure of eight).

You can tie it around a chunk of lead, or a stone, to make a doorstop.

Or make a keyring from it.

Or hit somebody with it.


Keith.

[mac]

:-o I can't believe the amount of knowledge in BushcraftUK!
Fantastic!!!
:-)
mac

[Hoodoo]

Here's my favorite way to tie a hook to a line. Maybe not a 100% knot but I've been using it for 30 years and I can say it's plenty strong. The main reason I like it is because it's easy to tie. I can tie this quickly even when it's mighty cold out such as for ice fishing.


http://www4.gvsu.edu/triert/s/crawford.html

[qweeg500]

This site has some nice "how to" vids on knots from a sailing perspective.
I don't think I'll ever master the one handed bowline tho'

http://www.saddleback.cc.ca.us/faculty/mhowe/

Matt