Howdy - I'm wanting to add a good book of knots to my library and was hoping for some recommendations from the most knowledgeable folks i know. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!

https://www.amazon.com/Knots-Folding-Purposeful-Outdoor-Preparedness/dp/1620052903/ref=asc_df_1620052903?tag=bingshoppinga-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80401843598257&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=m&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584001421254225&psc=1


I bought this at the checkout line at HEB a few years ago. I have it in my hunting bag along with an edible plants guide. Both are just laminated pamphlets so they are fairly flat and dont take up much room

My friend in the Navy was taught that if you can't tie knots you tie lots.

For a practical book with more than just knots, consider a US army survival manual.

For coffee table book, perhaps a Shibari knot book?

An old Boy Scout Field Book.

Google Animated Knots by Grog

oklaunion said:

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An old Boy Scout Field Book.

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Yeah, the one thing I enjoyed most as a Scoutmaster was teaching knots. I kept lengths of rope in my pack all the time and whenever we had time to kill, puled 'em out and had the guys tie knots.

One of our Eagle Scouts up in Seattle saved a person whose car had gone off down a ravine with a bowline knot on the rope he kept in his car. We used to do one handed bowline races on ourselves for fun.

Learn to tie a bowline knot (the king of knots) and you will be set.

Knots 3D App for Iphone is great.

A Bowline is great, but there are at least a dozen+1 outdoorsmen should know.
1. Bowline
2. Square Knot
3. Figure 8 Knot (Easy to make a figure 8 loop once you know this)
4. Clove Hitch
5. Timber Hitch
6. Two Half Hitch
7. Taut Line Hitch or Grip Hitch
8. Palomar Knot (or one of the many other options for attaching a hook to a line)
9. Trucker Hitch (which also requires you to know the next knot)
10. Alpine Butterfly
11. Mooring Hitch (or some other slip knot easily removed)
12. Surgeon's Knot or Blood Knot for joining two lines together.
13. Cleat Hitch

IMO those will get you through 95% of all situations for fishing, boating, anchoring stuff down, etc.

Lashings are also good to know, A Prusik hitch is helpful, and some form of knot like a Fireman's Coil or Gasket Coil for storing rope neatly.

If you're tying a trucker's hitch with an alpine butterfly you're doing it wrong. And if you're gonna bother learning an alpine butterfly you might as well learn the wireman's/lineman's knot

Good list though

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If you're tying a trucker's hitch with an alpine butterfly you're doing it wrong.

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Not so fast my friend! You can use a variety of knots to make your loop, there are several that work just fine. I happen to prefer the AButterfly, it is hard to screw up.

Thanks for the feedback. On the boy scouts field guide, are the older editions preferable? The 3D app looks really cool and could be a great supplement. I'm looking at one book but it lacks good use cases (which prompted my OP), so not sure when a given knot is appropriate.

fc2112 said:

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oklaunion said:

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An old Boy Scout Field Book.

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Yeah, the one thing I enjoyed most as a Scoutmaster was teaching knots. I kept lengths of rope in my pack all the time and whenever we had time to kill, puled 'em out and had the guys tie knots.

One of our Eagle Scouts up in Seattle saved a person whose car had gone off down a ravine with a bowline knot on the rope he kept in his car. We used to do one handed bowline races on ourselves for fun.

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Great story!

Just multiply statute miles by 1.15 easy peasy

fc2112 said:

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oklaunion said:

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An old Boy Scout Field Book.

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Yeah, the one thing I enjoyed most as a Scoutmaster was teaching knots. I kept lengths of rope in my pack all the time and whenever we had time to kill, puled 'em out and had the guys tie knots.

One of our Eagle Scouts up in Seattle saved a person whose car had gone off down a ravine with a bowline knot on the rope he kept in his car. We used to do one handed bowline races on ourselves for fun.

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We had one-handed bowline races in my troop as well. I think I won a Mello Yello for winning once.