A tapered, hard end is going to slide in.or out, easier than a knotted 1 inch rope". He was using the stainless steel bead on his wishbones. He popped like.3 band on the day we went out. Setting Steel Gear (Tone) came down here last Jan. I think all Dan is pointing out is that there are other methods too. So your saying that me telling people to use a single constrictor knot on my bands using Mako's materials is misinforming spear fishermen? I'm pretty sure it works just fine on all the fish I shoot? Here ill post some pictures for you guys of some fish I've gotten with a single constrictor knot. I don't want to mess with tying bands on my boat. I just take an extra set and leave it in my cooler. Either way, the knots will outlast the band material or wishbone. Waxed line really makes it slide together tight but it's not as strong as the nylon woven line. Then "roll" the band back and forth to really cinch down the knot. I tie bands by tying one end of the constrictor line to my bedpost then wrap the band and pull with a pair of needle nosed pliers with the line wrapped around them. It's a fatter knot and I've never had one slip. I learned to make a half hitch, with another wrap.a "double half hitch", knot on the wishbone line from Riffe. Many times we tie bands on the boat with nothing around other than the bands wishbone cord and even use fishing line as constrictor cord if we forgot to bring constrictor cord, it works well actually Would have liked to see a section where you just make your own knot and insert that into the band and use that instead of just showing how to insert a bead or other third party object into the band. The band making materials you see in the video are here Speargun Band Making Materials. Here's a video showing how to use it and how to tie bands correctly. No insertion tool is necessary and the Dyneema wishbone is easily replaceable. I've been using the Speardiver Low Profile Wishbone Inserts exclusively for a few years now. In any case using a knot in the wishbone line to anchor it in the band is obsolete. As with all things Mako the band making kit is more hoopla than practical. This Speardiver Band Tying Twine is much better for a few reasons. The Mako band tying line you are using is very small diameter and it's possible it will cut the band when tightened properly. Also a double constrictor knot is better than the constrictor knot for this application. Needle nose pliers have a better use inserting the knotted wishbone into the band, the wishbone insert tool is unnecessary. With those two needle nose pliers you're not able to pull the knot tight enough. The reason your friend's knotted wishbones are not holding up may be because they're using your method to tie bands. Day relates that, “she had never seen it in Finland, she wrote to me in 1954, but had learned about it from a Spaniard named Raphael Gaston, who called it a whip knot, and told her it was used in the mountains of Spain by muleteers and herdsmen.” The Finnish name “ruoskasolmu” (“whip knot”) was a translation from Esperanto, the language Ropponen used to correspond with Gaston.About what I see in your video. Finnish scout leader Martta Ropponen presented the knot in her 1931 scouting handbook Solmukirja (“Knot Book”), the first published work known to contain an illustration of the constrictor knot. The constrictor knot was clearly described but not pictured as the “timmerknut” (“timber knot”) in the 1916 Swedish book Om Knutar (“On Knots”) by Hjalmar Öhrvall. Hyatt Verrill illustrated Burgess’ clove hitch variation in Knots, Splices and Rope Work. Burgess copied from Bowling, he changed this text to merely state “when the ends are knotted, the builder’s knot becomes the gunner’s Knot.” Although this clove hitch with knotted ends is a workable binding knot, Burgess was not actually describing the constrictor knot. He wrote, “The Gunner’s knot (of which we do not give a diagram) only differs from the builder’s knot, by the ends of the cords being simply knotted before being brought from under the loop which crosses them.” Oddly, when J. In relation to the clove hitch, which he illustrated and called the “builder’s knot”. Ashley’s publication of the knot did bring it to wider attention.Īlthough the description is not entirely without ambiguity, the constrictor knot is thought to have appeared under the name “gunner’s knot” in the 1866 work The Book of Knots, written under the pseudonym Tom Bowling. Although Ashley seemed to imply that he had invented the constrictor knot over 25 years before publishing The Ashley Book of Knots, research indicates that he was not its originator. First called “constrictor knot” in Clifford Ashley’s 1944 work The Ashley Book of Knots, this knot likely dates back much further.
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