Awhile back I found a good video on single strand star knots.
Nice clean knot that can be used for many projects such as the key fob or zipper pull I tied.
See link below.
Single Strand Star Knot
I’m showing a 6 point single strand star knot tied in hand as well.
Ed.
http://i.imgur.com/JvYtAul.jpg
I use a different approach to the single strand star knot based on the instructions in the “Harrison Book of Knots”. You can find a tutorial here
http://pineapple.myfunforum.org/about1934.html.
If any one rerquests I can post the tutorial in this forum. Tony
That is different for sure. I hadn’t come across this method yet.
The video I found that showed it very clear, I believe was Stormdranes tutorial. Others show the same as he does.
I’ll have to try this other method.
Thanks
Thanks Ed and Tony
to make this very very nice single strand star knot known (at least to me).
But, is it a (doubled) chain sinnet turk’s head?
I like it! 
Thanks!
ciao,
s.
I tried to follow the picture tutorial that Tony linked to above it having a lot of trouble following it.
I myself find Stormdranes method of tying it in hand, much easier.
But a challenge is a challenge and I can’t back down! I will continue to try the method Tony points to above.
To answer knotsavers question…
I believe the star knot is a chain Sinnet.
In playing around with star knots, I came up with the idea of throwing a marble in the center of a 6 pointer. Then I whipped up a 7 pointer.
As pointed out in other tutorials, the Star Knot can be used around the edge of such things as a small picture to hang around the neck.
The single strand star knot can be made as large as you want. Here one is framing a 6 strand star knot
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y18/asemery/star%20knots/6ffd.jpg
Nice.
I have a question. When tightening the star knot, why is the center on one side always turning out bigger than the other side?
Thanks in advance
-Ed.
Hi Ed,
(with reference to Tony’s star knot) because on one side the internal crown is a double crown (over one under two) and on the other it is simple (bigger center), but in that way you are able to double both sides of the knot.
I’ve tried both methods.
Ed’s (Stormdrane’s and others on youtube) method is simple: it is essentially a doubled (suitably doubled) chain sinnet turk’s head.
Tony’s (Harrison’s ) method is a little bit more complicated when we join the ends (some pictures are not so clear in Tony’s tutorial 
), but IMHO the knot is more clean (the sides of the star are on different planes). The knot has the center of one side bigger than the other (as noticed by Ed).
In love with this knot 
ciao
s.
Hi knotsaver.
I guess I was referring to the single strand star knot tied in hand as in Stormdranes and other Vids.
I am showing a 7 point in my two pictures. One is what I call the front side, the side facing me when tying the knot. The other, the back side.
I put an old souvenir coin inside this one and started tightening the knot. Once again tho, even tho I try to tighten the knot slowly and evenly, the back side always, always, seems to want to close in more than the front side. And this ole fart can’t seem to see why this is.
Thanks for all your help and input knotsaver.
P.S. this knot is not tightened completely yet. But all my completely tightened knots display the same character.
‘puzzled tyer’ :-/
Ed,
with reference to your knots:
in the picture starback.jpg the internal crown is formed by “strands” (piece of strand) arriving from a point of the star (for sake of precision from the other side of the star) and entering (counterclockwise) the point of the star two positions over there;
in the picture starfront.jpg the internal crown is formed by “strands” arriving from a point (of the same side of the star) and entering (clockwise) the next point and so the center is bigger!
I think we can’t solve this problem with the 1 strand star knot :(,
but the knot is nice, anyway!
ciao,
s.
Ok. Thank you for putting time into this post.
I’ve been studying this for some time myself, and for some reason it still boggles the mind. Maybe my mind is getting dizzy from all the tightening of the knot. I get lost in tightening it, quite often. Knot something I can rush or look away from , lol
Interesting how some ppl see things that others can’t.
I could only conclude that, it must just be the nature of this single strand knot, and nothing I could do about it, as you have pointed out.
Yes, it is a very nice knot, as I’d the multi strand Star.
The single strand Star does make a nice necklace piece as well.
Thank you again.
-Ed
Thanks to Carol Wang the original tutorial for the single strand star knot posted at KHWW (now defunct) was saved. it is in pdf format and can be seen at
https://www.dropbox.com/home?preview=StarKnotSinglestrand.pdf
I think that the photos are clearer than the replacement tutorial I posted at the Pineapple Knot Forum. The original photos and are missing since some expletive deleted hacked my computer
The tutorial is based on the instructions found in the “Harrison Book of Knots” correcting one misleading drawing and showing how to finish the knot. Tony
I have Dropbox but can’t get your link to work.
I just started with Dropbox. According to my settings anyone with the link can view the pdf. Give me a PM with your e-mail address and I can send the tutorial that way
I do not have that problem with the “Harrison Book of Knots” way of tying the single strand star knot.
Looks the same on both sides.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y18/asemery/star%20knots/73ed.jpg
I like the method shown in the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqe0qYCFgDU
Shown is an easy to remember method (shown as a 5 pointed star) but can very easily be changed to any size.
In order to activate the public access I would have to upgrade my basic Dropbox account. I have changed the pdf format to jpeg and posted the tutorial in this forum
KHWW Star Knot
Tony,
the problem is there, because the internal crowns (the internal section of the resultant doubled crowns on both sides) are different on the two sides of the star (as I said on reply #8), but if you increase the number of points of the star the problem is less evident!
I prefer the Harrison’s method of tying the 1 strand star knot because the resultant knot is a more accurate “copy” of the multistrand star knot (IMHO).
Ciao,
s.
I also prefer Harrison’s method. Cheers, Tony