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THE ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTS

3714. A "life preserver" twenty-two inches long. Becket of FOUR-

STRAND SQUARE SINNET, the lanyard EIGHT-STRAND SQUARE SINNET,

DIAMOND KNOT in end. A leather bag containing shot is needle

hitched and seized around the neck of a knot on the lanyard.

3715. A blackjack, ten and a half inches long, that started out to

be a chest becket. Evidently the sailor's requirements changed as

his ship neared port. The knobs are MANROPE KNOTS, the bolt, eye,

and lanyard are needle hitched. The lead ball is rib bitched.

3716. A blackjack consisting of a rib hitched lead ball, a tarrea

codfish line lanyard, and a DOUBLE KNIFE LANYARD KNOT. .

3717. A wooden "night stick," ten and one half inches long, single

hitched, with a narrow TURK'S-HEAD.

3718. A razor-blade knife. The handle is of wood cross grafted

with ten leather thongs. The TURK'S-HEADS are small tarred fishline,

the guard being FIVE-LEAD X FOUR-BIGHT X FIVE-PLY.

3719. A cat with seven tails of FIVE-STRAND FLAT SINNET tapered

and whipped ($3460). The knob is a THREE-LEAD X FOUR-BIGHT X

TWO-PLY TURK'S-HEAD of FLAT SINNET tied over a MANROPE KNOT

(jifi847). The handle is TWELVE-LEAD, FOUR-PLY COACHWHlPPING,

the guard, a FIVE-LEAD X FOUR-BIGHT X FIVE-PLY TURK'S-HEAD.

3720. A whale ship'S cat-o'-nine-tails with a fourteen-inch handle

of white whalebone. Five cords are middled and seized around a

button on the end of the handle. One tail is cut out.

3721. A thirty-two-inch blackjack. The becket is an EYE SPLICE,

the neck of which is hitched over. The loaded end is also hitched

over. FUUR TURK'S-HEADS (THREE-LEAD X FOUR-BIGHT X THREE-

PLY) are added and the rope is wormed.

3722. A spyglass, covered with COACHWHlPPING put on with a

needle and finished off with a TURK'S-HEAD of larger cord.

3723. A rawhide quirt of three thongs.

Slit two of them in the center to admit a bight for a wrist strap from

the center of the third thong. Taper an eighteen-inch piece d sash cord,

parcel with "electric tape" and cross graft it with six strands (#3563).

Seize in a loop of THREE-STRAND FLAT SINNET. Add two ~EVEN-LEAD X

FIVE-BIGHT X SINGLE-PLY TURK'S-HEADS.

3724. To make a loaded quirt, serve a piece of sash cord with a

strip of quarter-inch wide sheet lead.

Separate the turns of the lead by winding a piece of soft cord between

them. Seize both ends and serve over with butcher's cord. Add a wrist

3120 strap, and loop as jifi 3 723. Make an additional cover for the handle that is

several inches long, first arranging strands as in the center sketch. Leave
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312'1 the ends long and seize them. Add three SEVEN-LEAD X FIVE-BIGHT

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• TURK'S-HEADS and fringe all ends .

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3725. A quirt lash is tapered both ways from the middle. Attach

to the quirt with a RING HITCH (jifi 1493).

3726. A riding crop with a tapered black whalebone core. If un-

obtainable, rawhide, rattan or elm root will do.

Form a loop of 7/I6-inch leather strap and stop it tightly to the small

end of the core. Take four long leather strips the size of shoestrings. Mid-

dle and form the wrist strap either of FOUR-STRAND SQUARE or FRENCH

SINNET. Seize together and make an EIGHT-STRAND DIAMOND KNOT over

the big end of the core. Then cover the core with EIGHT-STRAND SQUARE

SINNET, seize and cut off where it meets the end loop. Whip the joint.

3727. A dog's leash of three thongs. Taper both ways from the

middle and lay up a wrist strap of THREE-STRAND SINNET.

With six strands tie SINNET KNOT jifi 757. Plat half the length into SIX-

STRAND ROUND SINNET, then layout two strands and complete with FOUR-

STRAND SQUARE SINNET. Form a collar loop with one strand, seize all fout

and tie a DIAMOND KNOT (jifi693). Add TURK's-HEADS where shown.

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