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THE ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTS

3656. If your satchel or suitcase handle fails you and there is no

time to visit the luggage shop, make yourself a cringle (~2848).

3657. But if there is sufficient time at your disposal, form the

handle selvagee-fashion (~3622), marl with waxed sail twine, shape

it nicely (~3626) with spun yarn or other soft stuff and cover with

a RINGBOLT HITCHING (~3604) of Italian marline, which has a nice

brown color.

3658. DrtnJ.)er pulls on a yacht !lhould be shipshape. These were

on Waldo Howland's sloop Escape. The eye around the toggle was
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made of FOUR-STRAND FRENCH SINNET. It was seized close and a

short section of EIGHT-STRAND ROUND SINNET laid up. An EIGHT-

STRAND, THREE-TUCK MATTHEW WALKER KNOT was formed close

to the outside of the drawer and a WALL KNOT on the inside. The

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'" a FOUR-STRAND MANROPE KNOT. If the door opens two ways, have

a MANROPE KNOT at both sides. Close to each side of the door make

either a WALL KNOT (~67 I) or a SINGLE DIAMOND (~693).

3660. A KNOTTED EYE. Either ~ 298 I or ~ 298 2 will serve nicely

or the rope ends may be opened and seized flatly together and a

DIAMOND KNOT or MATTHEW WALKER KNOT (~682) tied. For the

inside a DIA;\IOND or a \VALL will serve. This makes a nice drawer

pull.

3661. An umbrella strap was made of a silk cord with the ends

bent together with a SHROUD KNOT (~I 587). A grommet will also

serve nicely as an umbrella cord.

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3662. For lifting a scuttle, employ any FLAT MULTI-STRAND BUT-

TON KNOT. Bore a hole through the scuttle large enough to take the

rope. Leave a stem about three inches long and tie a MATTHEW

WALKER KNOT on the underside, whipping the end. Have the

countersunk hole just large enough so that the knot can be easily

reached with the fingers.

3663. The simplest form of chest becket. If the wood is thick

enough, knots may be countersunk.

3664. A grommet drawer handle may be seized in by boring two
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small holes about a quarter of an inch apart, one above the other,

three eighths of an inch in diameter. Use Italian yacht marline and

add a smooth layer of frapping tprns.

3665. The handles pictured here are on the ends of the benches

in "The Galley," a restaurant on a wharfhead in Fairhaven. MAN-

ROPE KNOTS are used.

3666. Deck bucket bails commonly are of three-strand rope and

366:; are finished off with MATTHEW WALKER KNOTS (~682). These are

whipped but not snaked. Serrated leather washers are worn between

the bucket ear and the knot. On a well-made bail a leather collar

is added.

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