Knots!

This thread is all about knots of all kinds! Bring your hitches, bends, splices, and specialty knots with you! Basic instructions are wanted, as well.

I'll start with one of my favorites: the Monkey's Fist.

http://seafever.files.wordpress.com/...nkeys-fist.jpg

Wrap 3 times around 2 fingers, then wrap around the loops, then thread the line around the new loops and under the first loops. Tighten CAREFULLY, and you gots teh Monkey's Fist!

Continue, please!

I used to be a knot-head a while ago, but I've forgotten everything that I don't use on a weekly basis.

Off of the top of my head, the most useful are:
Two half-hitches
reef knot
Bowline
hangman's noose
(double) fisherman's knot
(double) constrictor knot
True lover's knot (for when the bowline doesn't work.)
(double) sheet bend
figure-eight knot

I love knots! I just can't tie a monkey's fist :?

Slip knots are SO easy to make, they've come in handy many times.

I have found a way to make an adorable turk's head. (It's SO cute!)

How to do it: Tie a carrik bend, but don't tighten it, so it looks like this: http://www.videos.sailingcourse.com/...rrick-bend.jpg
Then take the bitter ends, pull both of them under the knot, and up through the center diamond. Tighten this, and it should form what looks like a tiny turk's head! Best to use thinner ropes to do this.

It is absolutely adorable, and perfect for a keychain if you use a single rope.

@ PR0G: A quick google search should bring up the instructions on how to tie one. I have the basic technique in my beginning post. Check it out!

First, what you're describing there is a knife lanyard knot, not a Turk's head. I use it on lanyards all the time.

My favorite knots that I use often are the double figure eight loop on a bight, which I use for belay lines on ropes courses, the daisy chain (great for bundling up webbing), the alpine butterfly loop, the Siberian hitch (for tying a tarp ridgeline), the tautline hitch (other end of the ridgeline), Prusik knot (for attaching the tarp to the ridgeline, along with a myriad of other uses), the adjustable grip hitch for things like tent stake lines, the mooring hitch, the carrick bend, the Ashley bend, the water knot, the good old bowline, overhand or double-overhand slipknot, double bowline, Eskimo bowline, square knot, surgeons knot, clove hitch, timber hitch, Turk's head (usually a three-lead four-bight), Chinese button knot, bowstring knot (a really neat adjustable loop), the cobra stitch, single-strand braid, round plait, crown and wall knots, diamond knot, reverse crown, and such for lanyards or fobs, the stopper knot, bottle sling knot (admittedly not often used, but cool enough to keep in mind), plank hitch, highwayman's hitch and various other quick-release hitches, the wagoner's or trucker's hitch, and sundry others I can't remember the names of offhand.

I'm, um, kind of a knot geek, I guess you could say. If that's possible.

:shock: :eek: :bowdown: Okay, you win.

I should have guessed that in a forum of over 20,000 people, I would be shown up. I just didn't expect it to be an admin. Jeez, I need to look some of those up!