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Tutorial: Tying a Spanish Ring Knot

6/28/2013

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For my lack of blogging lately, here's two posts for tonight. Also, I'm updating the blog, I've noticed the blog takes a while to load. The blog posts have now been compressed to where only the first few lines will be seen, the rest can be accessed by clicking "read more".

I was looking for tutorials on how to tie a Spanish ring knot, and was surprised by the lack of tutorials. Here's a tutorial for anyone interested in learning to tie a Spanish ring knot. I highly recommend starting in a larger scale than model scale, otherwise you'll want to poke your eyes out with a fork after two seconds.
Things needed:

Rope

Dowel or something cylindrical



Start by wrapping your rope around your dowel. I'm using 550 paracord an a wooden mallet.

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Then bring the rope back around and run it under the upper right strand of the knot.

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Pull the X that is made by the two crossed strands down,

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And run your rope through the gap.

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Pull the rope downwards so you still have a gap.

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Grab the rope on the right side of the gap, and cross it over the left side.

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Run your rope under the part that is now the right side of the gap.

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Then run the rope under the knot.

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Next is tightening, I find it is easiest to hold the standing end(the end that isn't being used), and tighten the knot from the standing end, working through each step of the knot.

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You're done! If you tightened the knot really tight, there's no need for glue to hold it on. Just cut the excess rope off.

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5 Comments
Mabel Marble
7/26/2014 05:07:44 pm

Hi, I was looking for a tutorial on the Soanish Ring knot for someone and stumbled over your blog. Sorry to say that, but what youvshow is the enlargement process of a 3L 2B turkshead by crossing the bights to a 3L 5B Turkshead. The Spanish Ring knot is the smallest Gaucho knot and can be achieved if you interweave your knot here. It then has an o2 u2 pattern throughout. You mentioned the lack of tutorials. Please search again. You will find some!

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Brazos link
10/11/2014 08:54:02 am

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I should have clarified better, I meant that I couldn't find any single pass Spanish Ring knot tutorials. I've seen a few tutorials on a double pass Spanish Ring knot, so I'm starting to wonder if there is such a thing. None the less, I find that this knot works well for adding a bit of color in between the bigger knots when working in miniature scale. Again, thank you for letting me know, I'm always looking to learn more about knots!

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Mabel Marble
10/11/2014 09:46:15 am

Oh. I guess then we probably have a misunderstanding. Usually I only found the 2-pass 5L 8B or 5L 7B referred to as Spanish Ring knots. But now that you are mentioning that you mean a 1-pass Spanish Ring knot, your tutorial is exactly showing that. I was in search for a Sailor's bracelet ie 3L xB turkshead for someone beginning to tie turksheads. And thought you might have forgotten the interweave. The overlapping of different terminology can be quite confusing and deluding. As I have been exploring these knots very much recently I have akso gained more insight. Please accept my sincerest apology.

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Brazos link
10/11/2014 10:23:26 am

It's fine, it didn't even occur to me to say that I was talking about a single pass Spanish Ring knot. I know very little about tying knots, and what I have found that suits my needs was very hard to come by. I appreciate it when people let me know if something is wrong, so that I may improve and correct my mistakes. There's probably a name for the knot shown above, and once I find it I'll go back and correct my post. The terminology is always what confuses me the most with tying knots!

I've never heard of a Sailor's bracelet, but it sounds neat! I'll have to look that up and tie one.

Again, I really appreciate you letting me know that there may be an error in my tutorial! I'm always looking to improve and make my knots better. :)

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Mabel Marble
10/11/2014 05:23:47 pm

As said it looks like 2 names possible here. A 1-pass Spanish Ring knot or a 3L 5B (casa) turkshead. I guess the latter one would be the more usual. Sailor's bracelets seem to be these 3L knots although to fit them over your hand you would need more of the crossings you made. The longer I delve into this the more I realize that different perspectives are possible and depending people's source there are more or less accurate descriptions. As I was and still am addled by this but make tutorials, too, my quest is to show everything as correctly labelled as possible. An impossible goal it seems!

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