How to tie sticks together

Blogging on work nights is a bit of a challenge – but here’s what I’ve been up to the past few days, in bits and pieces, finished off during my lunch break today – some real…

In my last post, I showed you the homemade trellis’ ( built for my vegetables to grow up. It got me to thinking that many of you may not know how to properly tie a lashing to make your proje…

Ringbolt hitching is a beautiful way to decorate a staff or wheel. Also called coxcombing, it was once a common tie used by sailors to dress-up items and par...

How to tie the West County Whipping animated, step by step tutorial and explained

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Archery has been around for thousands of years. And during all that time, the majority of the bows that have been made were simple "one stick" wooden bows. I'm sure most of us have made toy versions of wood bows as kids, but we can still have a lot of fun as grown-ups when we tie a string to the ends of a hardwood stick and send a few arrows into the bull's eye. And besides being entertaining, if you spend some time making and shooting your own bows and arrows, these skills can greatly…

I tied these two knots as handgrips on my and my son's hiking sticks. On the left is a four-bight, 13-lead (I think) turk's head knot, tripled. In the right is a pineapple knot, but I'm not sure how they're classified.