Saturday, May 14, 2011

2 Bight Turks Head Key Fob

This is the key fob that I tied.  I started off with a knife lanyard knot to make a loop out of the black paracord.  The covering is a two bight turks head (two bight by eleven leads with three passes) tied using venetian blind cord which was good to work with and snugs up very well.  The two bight turks head is a handy knot for covering thin objects.  It is also versatile as it can be also cover relatively large diameter objects, and can easily be extended to about any length, as long as one is willing to pull all of the chord through.  There is a good tutorial for tying the two bight turks head on the KHWW website.  You can also follow the Ashley Book of Knots 1331-1335.

2 comments:

Stormdrane said...

Looks great! You can also double up your length of cord, when tying the turks head knots, and I think it's saved me a little bit of time in working them. YMMV ;)

curchin said...

Thanks for your kind words Stormdrane. I'll keep the doubled up thing in mind in case I get into an epic project like on of yours...

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