Klutz Book Of Knots

by Robert Hale & Co

Product Features

• best instruction book on knots for beginners
• includes cord with book
• holes on heavy board pages allow you to tie the knot right on the page

Product Description

I bought my copy of Knots way back when my first son was a cub scout trying to pass off his square knot! It has been passed down as a favorite from child to child. Nylon cord, color coded to the illustrations, is tied through holes on each heavy board page, allowing the reader to practice all 24 knots, hitches, wraps and ties next to the helpful step-by-step, how-to instructions. 21 pages, wirebound, comes with 5 feet of nylon knotting cord. This intriguing, entertaining book teaches some very practical know-how skills!

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• ASIN: B0000AXTSF
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #149,924 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for campers and canoeists!, May 14, 2007

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Paul Weiss (Dundas, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Klutz Book Of Knots (Misc.)

In the outdoors, knowing and tying the right knot in the right circumstances can save your food, your canoe, your self respect and even your life. The "Klutz Book of Knots" is not the right choice for a sailor looking to win rigging contests. It certainly isn't the choice for someone looking to set records with the world's fanciest macramé creations. Nor is it appropriate for someone looking to begin a course in rock climbing. But it IS a superb primer of the very best set of basic and not quite so basic knot skills for someone who wants to develop an indispensable repertoire for use in the context of hiking, canoeing and backcountry camping - bowline, half hitches, tautline hitches, trucker's hitch, figure eight, double figure eight, figure eight on a bite, sheet bend and more.

You'll not only learn how to tie the knot but also how to tighten the knot and which context is correct for which knot. For example, you will learn that the choice between a bowline and two half-hitches depends on whether the rope you are working with needs to be snug to the attachment ring or post.

And what a brilliant idea ... the book's pages are made of heavy cardboard and are perforated so that the reader can practice with the supplied rope tying the knot to the page of the book directly over top of the illustration. Even a klutz can learn with great tools like that! Oh yeah ... I guess that's the whole point, isn't it?

And a bonus for those of us whose hiking boots or running shoes are constantly coming undone ... an absolutely bombproof way of tying up your shoes with a knot that simply will not loosen but is still a slip knot and comes undone with a simple one handed tug. I fell in love with that one! Highly recommended.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars klutz book of knots, September 25, 2010

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elisa - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Klutz Book Of Knots (Misc.)

Klutz books are great for kids and even for bigger 'kids'. I bought this book years ago for my son when he was a young boy. In his travels as a young man, the book went by the wayside. I found it again on Amazon and regave it to him. It is just as useful now as it was then. Three cheers for Klutz.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Introduction to Knots, April 15, 2009

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John Mills - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Klutz Book Of Knots (Misc.)

Very valuable for teaching kids and Boy Scouts about knots. It has the important ones. Also has the Ashton which is the most useful way in the world to tie a bundle. The truck knot (really it is several knots together) will tighten a line so much as to be able to pluck it. This book is a definite must buy.