Page 311 - Geoffrey Budworth "The Pocket Guide to Outdoor Knots"

Purpose
Although there are practical purposes for this knot— to cover the junctions of

handrails and their uprights, or to mark (for recognition in the dark) the midships

spoke of a yacht’s wheel—this is another of those challenging knots that it is
satisfying to tie merely for the sake of doing it.

Tying
Work methodically, checking every illustrated step before moving on to the next.

Arrange each stage as shown and hold it in place—do not allow it to distort—as
each succeeding tuck is made. Note how it is frequently necessary to turn the

work over, so as to make tucks on the reverse side of the knot. The steps where
one is most likely to go astray and become lost are the early ones (figures 1–8).

When done faultlessly, however, two regular ladders appear through which a pair

of locking tucks are inserted (figures 8–9 and 11–12). Double or triple the
original lead to create a two-ply or three-ply knot and tighten gradually, a bit at a
time (figure 13).

Knot lore

This is essentially a 5B x 6L Turk’s head, modified by the creation of a hole to
accommodate the right-angled entry of the spoke to the foundation. It was

devised by David Fukuhara (a member of the International Guild of Knot Tyers)
of Vancouver, Canada, and published in Knotting Matters (February 1999).