Netting Repair Instructions
working left to right
the needle always enters the mesh from behind right to left
it enters from in front left
enters perform the mirror image of right-handed stitches
a description of left-handed sewing is presented at the end of this videotape
hold the needle like this at the back and never turn it around
handle the needle with your working hand
only switching hands waste time
and you need the other hand to control the twine
watch the needle again in slow motion
there are six basic stitches as well as starting and ending knots
we're going to start with a trawl web
there are some different techniques used with gill net
and we'll cover those later
now let's learn the basic stitches
they'll enable us to sew in any direction
once we can do that mending is simply a matter of restoring the original mesh grid
by moving from side to side and from top to bottom
first we need to learn the starting knot
starting on a three bar so it like this
before tightening the knot make one more
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pass like this
the result is a double sheet Bend
let's watch it again in slow motion
and in real-time
to make pickups above going right
start at the left holding the twine with your left hand
pass the needle through the pickup
Now control the shape of the mesh
with three fingers leaving your thumb
and forefinger free pinch the bars
together and form a loop pass the needle
behind the pickup and through the loop
snug the twine by pulling against the needle and snap to set the knot when you
set the knot snap the twine against the back of the needle if you snap it
against the front you will unravel too much twine the knot you created is called a sheet Bend
now let's watch it again in slow motion
pass the needle through the pickup from behind
pinch and raise the needle to form a loop pass the needle behind the pickup
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and through the loop pull down to
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tighten the knot and snap
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here it is in real time the procedure is
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exactly the same even though these
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pickups haven't been cleaned making each
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knot creates a new mesh remember
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maintaining consistent mesh size and
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shape is the key to good net repair so
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you need to measure as you make each not
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if the meshes are too large to measure
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with your hand use an existing bar
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here's another look at the pickup above
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going right
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hold the twine like this and insert the
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needle from the front the result is the
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same sheet Bend you created when you
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were working left to right now let's
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watch it again in slow motion pinch the
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bars with your thumb and forefinger
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raise the needle to form the loop pass
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the needle behind the pickup and through
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the loop draw it tight release the pinch
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and snap here it is in real time
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start at the lower left and come through
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from behind inch the pick up against the
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twine pass the needle behind the pickup
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to form the hitch draw it tight and set
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the knot by snapping up once again
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you've created a sheet Bend here it is
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in slow motion use two fingers to grasp
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the twine and pull it to the side so it
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forms a loop
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and again
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insert the needle from the front adjust
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the length to use two fingers to pull
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the twine to the side to form the loop
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draw it tight with an upward motion and
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snap you've created another sheet Bend
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let's watch it again in slow motion
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pinch with your thumb on top adjust the
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length and use two fingers to pull the
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twine to the side to form the loop pass
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the needle behind the pickup and through
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the loop draw it tight with an upward
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motion release the pinch and snap and
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again
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pull the twine to the left and bring the
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needle under the cider to make a hitch
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draw the hitch tight and pinch it in
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place treat this resulting three-bar as
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if it were a pickup here's the knot
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you've created now let's watch it again
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in slow motion
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pull the twine to the left and bring the
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needle under the cider to make a hitch
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pinch form a loop and pass the needle
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behind both bars and through the loop
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and again
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pull the twine to the left and make a
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hitch under the cider like this pinch
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and twist as you raise the needle to
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form a loop now sew it like a pickup set
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the knot by snapping downward here's a
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close look at the finished cider let's
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watch it again in slow motion
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net mending is like solving a puzzle you
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always start at the top and work side to
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side to the bottom mending starts and
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ends on three bars before you start to
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sew you've got to trim the hole so
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there's one three bar on the top and one
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three bar on the bottom every other knot
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around the perimeter of the hole must be
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a pickup or a cider choose a starting
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three bar at the top
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if there isn't a starting three bar
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where you want it cut one in it can be
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on either the left or right sides work
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around one side of the hole one mesh at
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a time until you encounter a three bar
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this three bar will become either a
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pickup or a cider stop and think which
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cut will eliminate the three bar without
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creating another three bar nearer the
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start if you create another one further
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away from the start that's okay stop
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when you reach the bottom of the hole if
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there's a three bar
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leave it you can end on that one if
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there isn't a three bar don't worry when
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you finish trimming down the other side
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there will be one at the bottom to end
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on return to the top and work down the
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other side in the same manner leave your
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starting three bar intact and work one
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mesh at a time trimming the three bars
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two pickups or ciders if you have done
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it correctly there will be one three bar
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left at the bottom of the hole here are
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some tips that should help you trim
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anytime there are two three bars
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together cutting the common bar removes
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them both if you come to a one bar not
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cut it off if you see two three bars
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like this cutting here and here creates
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a pair of pickups
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now watch the trimming sequence again
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work around one side trimming out the
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three bars the rule is to chase the
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three bars down the hole trim all the
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way down one side until you reach the
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bottom return to the top leave your
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three bar intact and chase the three
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bars down the other side there must be a
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single three bar at the bottom to accept
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your ending not on large holes trim as
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you work rather than trimming the entire
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hole at once
Net Making Knots Close Up - The Two Net
https://youtu.be/91mJqGIh-fQ
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net making knots hello everybody welcome
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back and in today's little exercise what
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I thought I'd show you what I do is I'm
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gonna show you the two knots that I
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personally use when net making and the
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reason for that is there have been a
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couple of questions as to why I use the
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two different knots and so what I'm
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gonna do is I'm gonna show you the two
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different knots that I use and show you
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the problems that I encountered with
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these particular knots and the other
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thing is yes there are more ways of
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tying knots in nets than try saying that
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knots in Nets then I'm actually
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demonstrating here but because I've done
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two videos so far using two different
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variants of the knot
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what I would do is I would show you a
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close-up and show you why some people
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have written in the comments that when
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they do one particular knot they've gone
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wrong and so what I want to do is on
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large cordage here is actually show you
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the actual knot itself so that you can
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see what's going wrong when you actually
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tie it and what I will do is I should
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hopefully about now put a clip in from
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my other video showing this first not
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being made and then we'll go on to the
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next knot and then what I do is I go
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underneath the card pick up the first
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loop so if we just pull that to one side
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you can see the first loop that we come
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to is that one there and all I do is go
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up through that first loop and exactly
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the same as we did in the beginning we
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bring it so that the loop butts up hard
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against my netting knee my net gauge I
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then pinch it throw a loop over my hand
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like so go underneath pick up the first
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two that form the loop go over the left
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hand one of that and then pull it
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through and then pull the knot down
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tight and locks it into place so as you
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can see from that first little clip from
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one of the Nets that I did and I'll put
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a link in below to those particular
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nets you can see that what I actually
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did was I tied a sheet Bend into my line
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so here is my one of my loops coming
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down and here's my yet loaded netting
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needle but we I'm going to take the
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netting needle off so it's not so
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confusing but just imagine that this
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green end here is by this is a beautiful
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netting legal I love this one it's
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obviously been used hundreds of times by
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somebody somewhere and it really is a
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beautiful beautiful item just look on
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ebay you can get them on eBay right so
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we have our line here and the first
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thing that I do with my line is to
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create my actual sheet Bend or one of
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the loops on my net is that I take the
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needle and pass it underneath so that it
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goes through the V of our top loop then
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once I've done that I pull enough
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through we want to pull a fair amount
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through and I've pulled a fair amount
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through and it's going off to the right
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hand side here the next thing I do is
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you'll notice that when I'm actually
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doing it
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I throw the loop over the back of my
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hand so my hand is here now and I throw
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the loop over the back of the hand and
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then the next thing I do is with my
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netting needle
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I go down underneath both the red ones
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and then once I've gone underneath that
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both the red ones I bring it up through
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that loop on the back of my hand and
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then just gently pull through and you
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can see here now what we've done is we
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have tied our first loop into our line
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and if I pull it up
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really tight you can see that it
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actually locks into place and we've
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actually tied a sheet Bend plain and
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simple as easy as that
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we've tied a sheet Bend and then what we
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would do then is with this end go up to
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the
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next loop and do exactly the same again
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so that we're tying cheek bends all the
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way along our meshes now the thing is
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also with this it doesn't look very good
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it's because it doesn't pull down very
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tight but if you're using a fine line
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that will pull down nice and tight now
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and this is where we get on to the point
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of some people are saying but jump when
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I tie this it's not right my net is
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awful and probably the reason is this so
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let's tie this again so I'll undo this
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now and we'll tie this again so here we
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go we've got our first row of meshes
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running across the top here we want to
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add another mesh and so what I'm going
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to do is I'm going to take my knitting
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needle with my line attached and pass my
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line up through that piece they're
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exactly the same as before pull it
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through what we want a fair bit through
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and then once I've done that I then
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throw it over the back of my hand so you
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can see here now just let's bring that
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interview over the back of my hand I've
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got a loop let's then bring that
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interview a bit going off to my right
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hand side to my netting needle I then
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pass my netting needle underneath the
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two red ones and up through the middle
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of that loop that I created on the back
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of my hand so let's just bring that down
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there a bit more and so you can see now
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here I am coming up through that loop
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now when you're using fine cordage this
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is the problem what you have to do and
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this is really important is you have to
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basically hold on to let's put that out
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the way hold onto that red one and
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prevent the yellow line from slipping
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because watch what happens is now I'm
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gonna exaggerate this but if I
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accidentally allow that yellow line to
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slip my knot ties underneath
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and you can see here now where it's tied
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underneath it's a been allowed to slip
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down and tied underneath I have now got
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a slipknot formed and so I've not
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secured my net and if I pull that up
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tight you can see there we've got a
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slipknot has appeared at the bottom of
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our loop and so that is wrong therefore
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that's why some people are saying but
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when I tie it it's it's wrong they don't
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know why but it's wrong and that's the
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reason so let's just show you that again
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so to tie this properly let's take that
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out completely and let's start again so
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here we go there is my loop I want to
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put another row of meshes on so I take
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my netting needle up through the loop
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take a bit through there and then form a
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loop over the back of my hand and then
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there's my working end on the right hand
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side and so what you're doing now is you
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are passing your netting needle under
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the red under the red up through the
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loop but as you're passing it up through
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the loop what you want to do is at the
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point let's get that out the way at the
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point where the red and the yellow a
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meeting pinch it pinch it tight and it's
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hard to do when you've got very fine
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mesh but you will feel it pinch it tight
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and gradually as you pull it through
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what you're doing is you're forcing them
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knot itself to form above the bite there
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of the red one and that's what you're
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looking for and then now when I pull
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down hard on that it's all locking into
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place and you can see there now that is
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really really tight it's not coming
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undone there is no swing no movement
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because what we've done is we've tied a
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sheet Bend at the top rather than a
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slipknot at the bottom and so this to be
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honest this was the first netting knot
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that I learned and I made nets and my
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nets were awful and the reason they were
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awful was because a lot of times let's
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just miss form this knot I ended up with
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that so my net was swinging about and it
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was absolutely loose and horrible and
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that is the reason and this is where the
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second method of tying a different not
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came about and this one was taught to me
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by a guy called
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Dave Warlow bit of a flat capper he
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makes person s
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rabbit hunting things like that and so
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this is how I learned another knot
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you'll feel when it's tight on there
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it's not slipping any further and now
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that I've done that what I do is I pass
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this over the back of my hand like so
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I've formed a loop there and then I go
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round the back of the two of the loops
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so you can see I've gone round the back
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there that's my actual loop there that
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I've picked up when my cordage runs
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through and I've gone round the back of
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the two loops and past my netting needle
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through like so and then once I've
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passed it through like so I then go
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between those two loops that I've picked
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up on my first loop there oh that's like
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catch there and then what I do is I just
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pull up nice and tight and there we have
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it I have my first loop that's been
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picked up and so what we do is we've got
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our mesh here now so there's one of the
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there's a B of our mesh netting needle
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but we're going to dispense with the
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netting needle and what we do this time
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is this I pass my end of my knitting
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needle up here and then I pull a fair
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bit through until I get the right amount
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of mesh forming at the bottom here so
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that would look something like
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okay so the next thing I do is exactly
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the same as the previous one I throw a
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loop over the back of my hand so there
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we go let's just tighten that up a bit
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so there's a loop going over my hand and
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then down to the working end on the
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right hand side now this time what I do
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is I take this working end here I pass
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it underneath both as we did before and
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pull okay but we now do another tuck and
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then what I do is I take that working
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end again and then this time just go
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underneath the red one there and bring
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it up on the right hand side there and
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pull it through and this isn't very
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slippery but as you can see here now
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what's happening is we are forming a
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better knot above and the simple fact is
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is a slightly bulky or not but the
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simple fact is that this particular knot
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now it has less of a tendency to slip
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under the yellow line has less of a
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tendency to slip underneath the red one
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and therefore we're actually creating a
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knot that locks it in place above the
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Bight of the red one and I'll show you
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this again and someone did actually ask
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me says he says Johnny says you're
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netting wrong is you're wasting time put
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in two loops in there but the simple
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reason is that the reason I put two in
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there is simply for the fact is that
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when I first started knotting it was
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easier to do that then try and fiddle my
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fingers and I couldn't get it right for
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ages I was struggling to get it right
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and I couldn't get this particular knot
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right so I went on to the second method
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and the second method worked and worked
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all the time and also the other thing is
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the knot itself felt more secure whether
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it is or not yeah it probably is but for
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netting if you do it right in the first
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method that I showed you fine so here we
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go let's do the second method
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so what we do is we get our netting
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needle we pass it up through the bottom
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of our red mesh and then take a fair bit
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through spare bit through like that and
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then what we do now is we pass it over
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the back of our hand so as you can see
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now let's just shrink that down a bit
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over the back of our hand and then we
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take that working end and we pass it
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underneath red underneath red up through
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that loop that we created over the back
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of our hand then we take it over
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everything bring it up through between
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the two Reds this time yes one step more
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when net making and then pull up and
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then as I pull up as you can see it's
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all pulling through nicely but the thing
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is everything is forming nicely above
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the bite of our red one so that when you
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know I can be very very slack in the
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actual tying of this but when I tie it
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as you can see I have got a nice knot
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formed at this point here and so this
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knot is very difficult I've never done
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it when tying it this method I've never
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done it so it ends up the wrong way okay
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providing you follow those steps that is
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how you do this particular knot and
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that's the reason why I do the second
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which has one extra tuck which takes
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whoa all of a fraction of a second a bit
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longer which some people seem to object
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to but if you are net making start off
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with this knot then go on to the simpler
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knot once you know exactly what you do
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and to be honest practice this with some
larger rope so that you can actually see
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exactly and feel what's happening and
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then you can reduce it down onto a
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smaller sized mesh okay so once again
end a video
quick and simple little tutorial
this one on my two different netting knots
these are the ones that I always use
when I'm making my personnel
or my fishing nets
and so once again if you enjoyed it if you hated it
you know the routine by now
and also if you okay what I'm really interested in is if you know other knitting knots tell me about them in the comments below
because I love to learn all sorts of new knots
so once again thanks for watching
and I'll see you again next time bye bye