I set this up and then forgot about it until today!
I suppose a few photos to show my "bona fides" (for those unwilling to do their own investigation) are in order... I received an email asking me if I was "for real" (Oh, My Dear... just ask my Audiologist, Proctologist, Cardiologist, or Health Insurance Carriers.... they're all convinced I'm V E R Y real!
I am unsure just how this works but it looks the standard richtest board sertup so:
I do Nautical ropework and - while I AM an expert at rigging sailing craft in traditional manners - my hands will no longer admit of my doing so, so I now do decorative ropework almost exclusively... Sennits (braided or woven rope belts are an example), lanyards, bell-ropes and generally just pretty things are now my balliwick.
Here's a nice picture of a bell-rope I recently made for Cap'n R. Moser (USN Ret) of Virginia: It's all of 8" long overall but it's about 2" wide at the widest and is ended off by a 9x8 "square" turk's head (Hereinafter a TH) with a covering of over 2 fender hitching and various smaller TH's, up to the thimble ended clapper attachment.
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