Page 30 - The Ashley Book of Knots

ON KNOTS

~ingle-strand knots in this volume, and most homes will provide

workable substitutes for the preferred tools that are described.

THE TOOLS SUBSTITUTES

Steel pricker or bodkin Meat skewer, ice pick, or

orange stick

Cork projection board Breadboard or chair seat

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Loop buttoner Hairpin

Wooden cylinders for TURK's-HEAD tying Mailing tube

Knife Scissors

Pliers Fingers

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But, as in other handicrafts, the use of proper tools and materials

will result in better workmanship and will save much inconvenience

and consequent waste of time.

In the past I made many tools myself and had others made for me,

before I learned where they could be procured. At least ten different

kinds of shop would have to be visited by any would-be purchaser

of the tools listed below, and the chance of finding everything in

stock would be slight. To simplify this situation for an who might
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be interested I had arranged with a reputable ship chan lery to carry

in stock the materials listed and to sell them either individually or in

four numbered kits, ~99. '" 100, ~ 10 I, ~ 102. Since this was arranged
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war has intervened and the arrangement has had to be canceled.

However, if fifty cents is mailed to Warren Rope, Box 76, Westport

Point, Massachusetts, a ball of cotton banding will be mailed to the
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reader.

List ~99 has everything needful for general knotting. Lists ~ 100

and '# 101 are supplementary and are primarily for any who may be o

especially interested in splicing, in sailmaking. and in 'netting. List

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'II- 102 consists of occasional tools. N

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The illustrations, like the rest of the illustrations of the book, are ... L

not drawn to any especial scale.

KNOT-TYING TOOLS

General Kit ~ 99

A. Steel pricker, 4" I Yl"X 10". for tying TURK's-

B. Long-billed pliers HEADS.

. C. Loop buttoner K. Pins for same *

D. Pencil and eraser L. Flexible wire needle 100

Eo Block of tracing paper, 6"X8" M. Large black thread (used as a

F. Pantograph clue in making certain elabo- I)

G. Cork projecting board, 12" rate knots) E. -

square N. Twine for whippings and seiz- :

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H. Long push tacks, for use with lOgS

cork board o. Beeswax

I. Packing needles P. Ball of braided cotton "band- c .

J. Wooden cylinders, 3"X6", and ing" for practicing knots •

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Supplementary Kit ~ /00 (including tools for splicing)

A. Duck-bill pliers E. Fifty feet four-strand rope (lan-

B. Marlingspike, 9" yard stuff)

C. Sheath knife, sailor's F. Fifty feet three-strand rope

D. Ball Italian yacht marline (ratline stuff)

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