Thanks for all your input. The group is kind of a Boy Scout/Girl Scout type outfit. So some but not all of them would have a camping or outdoor application.
The aspect of
application will help see given knots practised (or not),
but beyond that is the aspect of
knot workings ("mechanics" I previously said), by which
one hopes that the student takes away some understanding of how knots can work: in the
Fisherman's Knot, components slide into each other and jam secure; in Rosendahl's bend
the opposed loaded lines intertwine and achieve a secure binding on each other; and
in the folding of rope into a bight ("doubling") and then making a knot (e.g., Fig.
in that
doubled line, one side becomes a useable eye.
I realize on reflection that my ten-set lacks much good for monofilament line;
and I had also at one point believed that the Dbl.Overhand/Strangle knot should
be given, in part as a means to securing the common, springy-slick polypropylene rope,
backing up other knots.
Someone came up with these knots for the board years ago so slowly I'm changing some of them.
A couple years ago I changed the 1 half hitch to the prusik seeing if you could tie 2 half hitches you should be able to tie one.
Although there's something about "Two Half Hitches" that mitigates against just 1, or 3, although the Two HH might be not so good
a finish--I have watched in amazement at them slowly slipping out in some 8mm low-elongation nylon kernmantle under my weight!
A third HH, or HHs put on in different orientation, or with a Slip-knot stopper rather than further HHs, might be just the ticket.
I think that the set of 25 looks about like what we'd come up with if guessing what it was--pretty traditional.
I'm in the process of changing the bindertwine bend to something else. The bindertwine doesn't seem to be a very secure knot.
By which I take this to be an Overhand knot tied w/two ends. This knot does have some security issues,
but is also a knot favored in rockclimbing (not without continual controversy!) to join abseil ropes.
(But I'd not be all so comfortable suggesting this to scouts, nevertheless.)
I'd like to change it to the straight bend
I'd like to straighten out the misconceptions about this so-called "Strait" bend (it is re that sort):
if you have access to the two ends, there is no reason to go making the asymmetric compromise
that is the Butterfly bend (however named). Pick "Ashely's Bend" (Day's naming), #1452, or
maybe better (re slack security) his overlooked #1425 (no, not "Hunter's"--which is "1425a"),
or Rosendahl's bend (aka "Zeppelin", named by magazine writer)--which can be most satisfying.
or alpine butterfly but haven't made up my mind.
Hmmm, there's a better version (or two) of this, got via the Slip-knot start, but for kids, and
quicker tying, go for the Farmer's Loop--it's leapfrogging tying method is a sure winner!!
(Three rings for Elven kings, ... --no, wait, it's:
Three wraps around the hand. The middle wrap jumps over an outside wrap,
which now is in the middle and so jumps over the other outer wrap,
which then is in the middle and so jumps over the other outer once middle wrap,
now BACK in the middle and so ... is pulled up to be the eye of the knot! What joy!)
Here's the list of knots on the knot board:
1. square
2. clove hitch
3. slip knot
Often this name is ambiguous over whether a stopper or noose is meant:
by Ashley, it is the stopper, and in handy use to make secure knots when tying
with a bight end, there too (try a Half Hitch with bight and Slip Knot in bight).4. timber hitch
For improved security, strength (my surmise), and staying in place, make a round turn (or 2)
of end around the S.Part before dogging the end back around itself--kind of a friction-hitch working.5. surgeon's knot
Not sure how helpful this is; it seems actually LOOSER upon completion than the square,
if tied against a surface to bind, and not as a bend (where the knot will shift significantly).6. bowline
7. sheetbend [two words]
8. sheep shank [one word]
Here's a great candidate for omission; you might use it (like #19, Trefoil") qua decoration, though?9. prusik [c/should be 'Prusik'--for Karl?]
10. constrictor
11. 2 half hitches
12. lariat
Hmmm, the general structure (rope through eye knot)?; also particular eye knot--"Honda"/bowstring knot?13. man harness [one word]
14. packer's knot
15. anchor bend
16. carrick bend
17. figure 8
Meaning the stopper? As I noted previously, the Overhand stopper is more useful where one
needs to place it snug to some body (e.g., knotting the end of a whipping, or with the Half Hitch.18. stevedore
THIS could be dropped in favor of Ashely's Stopper.19. trifoil stopper knot
Well, with "stopper" here, maybe you mean Ashley's, and not the decorative structure.
20. lark's head
21. cat's paw
22. taut line hitch
23. belaying
Cleat hitch? (as we await Lynn's seafaring report of Rock Hall findings)24. fisherman's knot
25. bindertwine bend
--dl*
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