Dan Alaska has posted some excellent tutorials on the PKs at his Pineapple Knot Forum site.
I tied almost everyone of them and can say they are GREAT!!! He starts off with a basic PK and before you know it you're tying a ~ ...type 3 - 4 pass (from a 7x6 turk's head). By following Dan's rules, I was able to tie a 32 part x 36 bight, 6 pass, Type 1 Pineapple knot. Whoo Hoo! Thanks Dan for your great tuts!
This link below will take you to the tutorials. Check them out; they've got plenty of pics that lead you step by step thru tying different PKs!!!
http://pineapple.myfunforum.org/index.php?c=20Tom Hall's Intro to Turk's Heads has been mentioned in a post above but I believe it can be mentioned again as it is a tremendous help in learning the PK. You can get a copy of Intro to TH by Hall from Marty Combs' site at:
http://www.angelfire.com/ak/skateworld/index.htmlHall uses diagrams to help explain the PKs. To give you an idea here is the diagram I made for the latest PK I tied (mentioned above).
I had run out of orange line and used pink that I replaced later when I got more orange. Here's the breakdown of the casa passes by color.
And the graph lined to the PK:
I would also recommend the following to anyone learning or wanting to learn how to tie a PK.
Sidney Wood has an abundance of great info on the interweaving of casa knots and a whole lesson on the Pineapple Interweave.
http://www.taylortel.net/~stwood/interweaves.htmlHis lessons on paralleling of a part of the primary knot and especially recognizing the parallel pairs and splitting them properly were invaluable.
http://www.taylortel.net/~stwood/newiwintro.htmlI guess we all learn at our own pace, but recognizing/seeing the pairs was really hard for me until Sidney's excellent lesson finally sunk in. Now I can see the pairs while tying. WhooHoo! Thanks Sidney!
Now I want to "see" the finished knot while I'm tying it, but that hasn't happened yet.
Rick
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