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Headhunter Knot Bracelet

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The 7p x 45b 2 pass Headhunter Knot. It's definitely the most bights in any knot I've tied. lol

Using Tim's amazing Grid Maker, coding is \\//\\, I sized the grid's strand width for the navy blue Cross Lace cord I used. I also set the Strand Gap Size the same size to accommodate the kelly green line. I just put a piece of line on the pc screen while changing the strand width and gap sizes until they were the same. To get the approximate 10" circumference I wanted, I increased or decreased the # of bights until the grid on the screen equaled 10". This was to cut down on dressing the knot. Next I printed and taped it to a thin homemade cardboard tube filled w/plastic grocery bags and inserted the 90 pins.

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9 1/2' of Navy blue line completed by following the half cycle list.

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Followed with 9 1/2' of Kelly Green line to complete the bracelet.

This is straight off the grid without doing any dressing of the knot that has almost 2' of line per inch

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The cross lace cord is so stiff that the bracelet is huge on my wrist and won't close up any at all, much different than my Nantucket Sailor bracelet tied out of 1/8" white braided nylon from Wally World which closes up completely by squeezing it from all angles once it's on. I suppose I could get some plastic buckles and cauterize the bracelet to the right size with a wood burning tool and cover that up with a couple of Turks Head knots to save the work in this one.

I just learned "the mule" and tied my first Nantucket Sailor's Bracelet this past January 2009. It's a 5 part x 14 bright Turks Head with 14' of 1/8 nylon line from Wally World. My thanks to Dan at The Pineapple Knot Forum for all his help. I think getting the A B crossover was harder for me than doing the mule. I finally figured it out with the help of Boatswain's Mate, Volume 1.

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Thats a pretty impressive looking bracelet. I love it.

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Thanks 8thsinner.

I really like the knot, too, and I liked the story of the Headhunter Knot here:

http://www.apwa.org.au/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=8&thread_id=115

Ouote below from jaspenhof from thread, "Headhunter's Knot" at Australian Plaiters & Whipmakers Association.

My earliest recollection of the knot was back about 50 years ago where I came across it in The Encyclopedia of Knots and Fancy Work. I spent some time today, trying to find it again, but will have to just about read the whole book again. That's not a bad thing.

Their write-up about the knot was that they were allowed to take a picture of the finished knot but not tell how it was made up. They had actually gone to Africa to research various knots for the book.

Over the space of a few years, I would work on that knot and try to get it where it looked like the one in the book. After about 5 or so years, I finally came up with about as close as one can get. Then I promptly forgot about it 'cause headhunting was no longer popular.

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Actually I think head hunting is still done just not with spears anymore.lol

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