For those of you that use a rawhide or leather boot lace for a strap, how do you tie it to the end pin? especially if it is a small one. Thanks.
For those of you that use a rawhide or leather boot lace for a strap, how do you tie it to the end pin? especially if it is a small one. Thanks.
I just tie a noose(slipknot) then pull it tight. If you want to get fancy loop it around three or four times.
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I use two half hitches, it will slip and stay tight. Easy knot to tie and untie.
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Yeah but, a real live noose with all 10 or 12 wraps, when done in miniature w/ leather boot lace, besides working real well seems to have just the right combination of macabre and... cute!
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I too thought that a full blown noose was just right. And it does work well.
A word of warning though - I used one of these for a while on a new instrument with ivoroid binding and it ended up leaving a reddish tint on one edge of my new, perfect binding from the dye in the bootlace I used.
Yeah I use a hangman's noose knot on each end. It is a bit of a pain to tie as custom requires it to have thirteen turns, but it works great. Check out Sam Bush's photo on Glamour and Grits or Late as Usual , you will see Hoss has one. R/
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Arches F style kit
1913 Gibson A-1
If you can tie and hangman's noose, this should work well at the tail butt, though I've had no problems with a simple slip knot (heeding above finish warning). For the loop end, I use a retraced figure eight knot, which sounds complicated, but it's a simple and self-tightening knot used in climbing and rescue. This gives you a very fixed loop.
Eastman 605, Strad-o-lin, and Kentucky 300e mandolins.
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