Hello, I need help identifying what knot is used on this keychain that I want to recreate. As you can see, the two ends of the string loop around the ring of the lobster claw and form a knot. Can anyone recognize what knot this is? Thanks!
Welcome to the forum @acornrun
[I’m posting a copy of the photo you’ve linked to because Pinterest is an utterly maddening and bizarre site, on which you can’t actually just see or zoom a photo, you can only do some weird image matching search… I just pulled the actual image URL from the page source.]
Anyway, my personal hatred of Pinterest aside, here is the photo:
And I think that knot is a single Bosun’s Whistle Lanyard Knot which is described in ABoK (#788)
How to tie it
Two great YouTube tutorials here
IGKT Solent Branch How to Tie a Sailor's Knife Lanyard Knot
Paracord Guild https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3W0DuWspf4
It’s also described in Des Pawson’s Knot Craft
The knot is often doubled, which makes it look a little like a Turk’s Head tied around the standing part of a rope.
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Also known at the Chinese Button Knot. It looks like they put on the beads and then tied the knot and fed the loose ends back through the knot after wrapping around the keychain and heat fused the ends. Structurally that’s much weaker than if you lark’s head (ring hitch) to the keychain, tie a button knot there, string your beads and finish with another button knot or heat fuse the ends inside your last pony bead.
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