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MONKEY’S FIS T/LIGHT PULL

MATERIALS 3.5m of 4mm line will cover a 36mm diam wooden
ball with 7 passes
2m of 4mm line will cover a 24mm diam wooden
ball with 5 passes
Extra line is needed for hanging

KNOTS USED Monkey’s fist: diagrams a, b and c

METHOD B
If you are using the 4mm line as
a suspension line, add the length

A

Route of final passes

is possible to drill a 3mm hole
through a wooden ball with a
counter sunk hole of about
5mm one end, thread a thin line
of drop you want to the above of perhaps 2mm through it and
measurements and start making
the monkey’s fist round the ball. C
You will need to make 7 passes or
circles on each face of the knot.
Use your fingers to make and
keep the series of wrappings in
some sort of order. Insert the ball
after making only two of the
final series of passes, then carry
on to complete the 7 passes with
the ball inside. When the knot Put centre ‘ball’ in before
has been tied loosely, work all completing final passes
your slack to the longest end, knot the end so it does not pull
which will be your suspension out, but is buried in the
line. Trim the short end to about countersunk hole. Then cover
10mm and tuck it into the body. the ball with a monkeys fist,
If you feel that 4mm line is trimming the ends short and
too heavy as a suspension line, it burying them inside.

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