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An illustrated handbook knots, splices and rope work. This handbook is a practical and simple guide to all the basic techniques involved in tying hempen, synthetic, and wire ropes. Knots and splices is the bestselling truly pocketsized book on rope and wire work, splices, and all types of knots, and has been continuously in print for almost 50 years. Everything about the description of this book is a fraud. This book illustrates in a simple handbook format seventy of the most. Simple knots and bends ties and hitches nooses, loops, and mooring knots shortenings, grommets, and selvagees lashings, seizing, splices fancy knots and more this practical guide offers scouts, sailors, and campers a perfect instructional manual and a handy resource. Each knot is shown in stages, the use for the knot is given and the good and bad points are highlighted for each knot. Not so long ago, each profession or trade had adopted the knots best suited to its requirements, and knotting was part of their daily lives. In clear videos the author himself fabricates the knots and splices with his own hands in front of the viewers eyes explaining and commenting each step.
It has 24 different knots, splices hitches etc like the bowline, half hitches, tautline hitches, truckers hitch, figure eight, double figure eight, figure eight on a bite, sheet bend. Knots, splices and rope work a practical treatise giving complete and simple directions for making all the most useful and ornamental knots in common use, with chapters on splicing, pointing, seizing, serving, etc. About 4,000 different knots are described, ranging from the very simple to the extremely complex. Jan 16, 2010 knots, bends, splices with tables of strengths of ropes, etc. Handbook of knots and splices, and other work with hempen and wire ropes. This wellillustrated treasury of practical and ornamental knots ranges from simpletomake squares, reefs, halfhitches. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. Splices can be used to form a stopper at the end of a line, to form a loop or an eye in a rope, or for joining two ropes together. Click download or read online button to knots splices and ropework book pdf for free now.
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