Nice Pat !
Did you coat it?
SS
Itās not coated, but it may need to be coated if the line has too much creep. Right now, itās pretty tight, and I think the Paracord will stay tight over the long haul.
Pat
A slightly(?) oversize key-fob.
I wanted a floating key-fob for my boat keys. I used a cork ball (around 4 cm diameter) and made a mauretania knot (ABOK 544) in 9mm cheap yellow reflective line. It did not work out fully to perfect coverage, but should float a reasonable number of keys and be easy to find even if dropped at night. I added the small steel ring to make it easy to attach normal split key rings.
Ocean mat
Jute, 15 mm, about 12-13m line used
http://borealbushcraft.se/bilder/mat_side-splice_800.jpg
Sorry to ignore your matā¦ but that is a very interesting looking fid, where might one purchase such a thing? ;D
That is just one of the Selma fids (http://www.selma.no/). I find them handy for that kind of jobs, as well as some types of splicing (hollow braid)
Nice work! The tiller on my boat has more stuff on it (two different ālocksā and an extension, all from various P.O,) Planning on a turks head on the last 15 cm of the tiller, and probably a moku hitch on the extension.
Question re paracord: by spec it is supposed to be somewhat elastic (something like 15% IIRCā¦), Not a problem, or even an advantage?
I know that the Paracord will creep (stretch) over time. The typical solution for when a knot in this kind of use creeps is to coat it with something to fix it in place. I have seen paint, varnish and other coatings used to stiffen up the knot. Mostly I have seen this used on natural fiber knots, I am hoping that the low creep inherent in Paracord will keep the knot in place. The knot was tied very tight, and I am hoping that it wonāt loosen enough to require a coating. The real solution for when a knot like this gets loose is to tighten it up and take the slack out, but if someone isnāt available to do this, the easy solution is to coat it. Like the old saying, āIf it moves salute it, if it doesnāt move, pick it up, if you canāt pick it up, paint itā.
These 24 bight mats came off the same jig, the one on the left is 1/4" (6mm) cotton, the one on the right is 1/8" (3mm) cotton, and they are both 8" (200mm) diameter. I will be adding another ply and taking some slack out of the one on the right.
Pat
Still having metres of the hard laid Bundy Gliding Club rope to use up, I have made a couple of rope bowls from the 8mm rope.
(Courtesy of Mark the Braider)
A 6 bight thump mat tightened into shape and the ends side spliced on the outside near the base. It took 8m with 6" spare at the end.
Was a while since I made one of these, so not quite happy with all the details, but it will do for now.
Type II paracord, the red is reflective, as can be seen in flash photo insert.
Posted a video to Instagram to show how to tie the matrimony knot mentioned by hospis in slav knot recognize in the forums. This is my second attempt to create a handfasting ritual that ends with a decorative knot that the couple can display later. ;D
More things posted elsewhere:
Another handfasting ritual, this time featuring the mandala knot. Created for an Instructables contest.
Then, for an Instagram paracord contest, I braided a sprang bag seamed with phoenix tail sennit for the purposes of creating a āquick release toolā (object you might want to carry around that can be quickly unravelled for the cord). Hereās video of the unravelling.
Rhombic dodecahedron.
Six loops.
This is a bell rope knot for the bell in my garden. Made from paracord, the spacing of the knots signify the sounding of 8 bells, the end of watch. The bell was a retirement gift, and the sounding of 8 bells seemed appropriate. The center core is 4 strand braid, and each knot is built up on a foundation of smaller knots. The outer knot of each ball is a 56 panel globe knot. Colors are the sequence of the spectrum, the most common example of which is a rainbow.
Great idea and a lovely piece of work!
Sweeney
This mat is a 24 bight turks head with the center closed to 12 bights, and then the 12 bights were closed down to the 4 bight center. I used 550 paracord, and the ends were cut to a perfect length and then melted together over a candle.
Tied in hand, this is a three step process, first tying the 24 bight x 5 lead turks head and then using another piece of line to tie the first closure. This is done by laying in a second ply and instead of following every bend in the original knot, at one end of the cylinder every other pass, you skip ahead a few bights. The original knot is taken out, and the new knot is then used as a template to close the center down to 4 bights by now using the finish line to double the plies, and every third trip to the center, instead of following the bend of the template knot, it skips ahead a few bights. When the finish line has completed one pass through the knot, the template knot is removed, and the knot is finished up.
Tying this knot in hand is a time consuming process, so I drew a grid that wraps around a 3" (75mm) PVC pipe, and it takes much less time to produce one of these using this nails-in-a-cylinder mandrel.
spectacular 
and good to read of the descriptive notes
The thump mat on the right is ABOK 2360. The mat on the left is a variation of the thump mat. It started as a 9 bight x 4 lead turks head, a second line was added to close the center down to 3 bights, and the original knot is taken out. It is tied with a very stiff 1/8" (3 mm) tarred hemp line.
i love it
and the lionās face 
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can you see it ?