Sheet bend
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Special Knots, and Advanced Knots, for Wolf, Bear, Webelos, Tenderfoot, Second Class, and First Class.
Sheet bend | |
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Names | Sheet bend, Becket bend, Weaver's knot, Weaver's hitch |
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Typical use | Joining two ropes of different diameters. |
Caveat | |
Releasing | |
Category | Bend knots |
Group | Basic knots |
Related | Bowline |
The Sheet bend is much more secure than a Square knot.
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— The Ashley Book of Knots # 1431, p. 262 |
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— Grog |
- Required for
- Bear # 22b, Second Class rank #2f, Sea Scout Apprentice #5.
- Instructions
- Make a loop in one end.
- The rabbit goes out of the hole, around the tree and back under his path.
- Lesson Videos
- Grog's Animated Knots: Sheet Bend
- Video: Sheet Bend
- Wonder How To Video: Sheet Bend Knot & Double Sheet Bend Knot
- Notes
- The Sheet bend is one of the Forty Knots.
- See also