Nor the size of the 2-B-whipped rope and the materials
likely at hand for whipping.
I’ve found it fun to use parts of fibrillated PP (baling twine)
so to take advantage of its relative strength, slickness,
and esp. flatness --crossings don’t bulk so much.
ABoK #277 btw shows how to start the novel whipping
I described (or tried to) above, “casting a HHitch” over
the end and then dressing & setting that on the other
side of thumb-held HH. (What Ashley does --and IMO
he’s off his rocker in this-- is form an OH brought down
to lose complexity into a HH ; whereas I go in the opposite
direction, converting the cast HH into the OH!
I’ve used mason line & fishline for whippings, too.
–dl*
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