So a few years ago my roommate needed a belt, so we broke out a retired (6mil) anchor, cut it to fit (we doubled it around his waste), and viola. I showed him how I would tie it, basically a 3 way sheet bend (since one end is just a bight). See the first photo of it tied in my 5 mil belt. He has sin…

Have a look at those bight-to-bight bends, shown at the attached pictures. [SS bend (B)(top view).JPG] [Sweeney s bend (front view).JPG] [bight-to-bight xarax s bend (B).JPG]

IPAtch post:1: And any other suggestions for knots? I probably wouldn’t ever use a rope belt myself, but I’d tend to look for options that minimized tying & untying. You don’t really have a bight-to-bight situation, but a bight-to-twinned-ends scenario. What you could do is just take the t…

I wear Carhartt button T-shirts nearly 365 days a year. I don’t tuck them in, and in the winter I simply wear more layers over them, sometimes including jackets or coats without elastic at the sleeves and the bottom. In really cold weather I tie a friction hitch in a piece of soft rope for a belt t…

James Petersen post:4: a Gleipnir buckle. A very nice knot ! I believe it is a slipped variation of a dL s binder ( #34, #35 ). ( At the original Gleipnir(s), the two ends of the nipping loop are leaving towards oposite directions. ) There are many binders one can use - see (1)(2)(3). You c…

roo post:3: IPAtch post:1: And any other suggestions for knots? I probably wouldn’t ever use a rope belt myself, but I’d tend to look for options that minimized tying & untying. As a follow-up, if you’re OK with always tying a knot, you could just leave one of the twinned ends longer…

X1 post:5: James Petersen post:4: a Gleipnir buckle. …You could also try the simplest one I can imagine (see the attached piocture), and tell us how you feel ! :slight_smile: an overhand knot based adjustable binder.JPG I like that knot. A lot like a bowstring loop, but in the fo…

I just tied the Gleipnir buckle, well see how it “holds up” Thanks for all the suggestions, made me think maybe I should be not just looking at tying off the two ends to the bight, like Roo said, either use make a “button” or a reef knot. Or maybe a reef knot tied to the bight, like such. This actu…

X1 post:5: James Petersen post:4: a Gleipnir buckle. A very nice knot ! I believe it is a slipped variation of a dL s binder ( #34, #35 ). ( At the original Gleipnir(s), the two ends of the nipping loop are leaving towards oposite directions. ) There are many binders one can use - see …

If you re-tuck the one or both ends through the nipping loop once more, you will return to the secure knot of your first post…or somewhere very near to it. :slight_smile:

X1 post:10: If you re-tuck the one or both ends through the nipping loop once more, you will return to the secure knot of your first post…or somewhere very near to it. :slight_smile: I had thought of/tried that, but it is a little bit harder to untie than I am interested in using as a belt …

Rope Belt Knot

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This reminds me of a post long ago…