"Bob" wrote in message
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On Jun 12, 3:21 pm, "KLC Lewis" wrote:
"Wayne.B" wrote in message

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On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:31:49 -0400, "Roger Long"
wrote:

I've seen snap shackle pulls that are some variation of a hangman's
noose.
I tried but I'm doing something wrong because they come apart after a
couple
of uses. Does anyone have a link to how to tie these properly?

I make my own using nylon cord about 1/8 in diameter. Start out with
a double half hitch, and then keep adding more hitches until you get
to the length you want. Cut off the free ends with a sharp knife and
fuse them with a heat source (usually the galley stove in my case,
while my wife looks on askance).

If you want a really sexy lanyard, five tails in a flat braid (two
doubled
lengths plus one, bury the free end of the middle strand) finished off in
a
star knot is the cat's meow.


ya, thats the ticket. Didnt we make thoes at summer camp only used
that thin plastic stuff and put them on a key chain as a key fob??? I
seem to remember red and white and maybe pink.

Then in the 70s it was macrame plant hangers.... Now I got it.....

Bob



So you equate practicing nautical arts with summer camp? Ummmm...okay. I
learned how to tie a bowline in summer camp -- guess that makes them passe.