Karen wrote:
That is a handsome knot! I love the idea of the medallion.COOL! I really like the end tassle too!
I don't think the rope needs more body. Just as you don't want stiff reins, you really don't need a stiff cordeo either. I look for thin, old reins to make my cordeos...soft from years of use, as reins they have their own history. Some good, some bad. But gone on to become something new and liberating. It's lovely!
I just went to tack sale, and I can't help myself...I found a couple old reins. they felt worn and smooth and soft...had to have them!!!
I too love old leather gear. I had to try hard not to cry when my son told me some fool threw a cigarette out of a passing car, lite our property on fire and my A-frame tack and storage building burnt. They managed to salvage a tiny bit of my belongings in there, but my wonderful plaited rawhide bridles, and hackamore headsets, all my library but a dozen books, my custom western training saddle, my Pariani (now THAT does bring a tear) that carried me over so many jumps on such good horses, all gone. Much more of course, but not as serious to me as those above.
By the way, the Alamar knot will tell you, should you use it, if you have pulled too hard (that's why I prefer just a little more body) as the knot will 'upset,' that is lose it's shape and just turn into a fist. A tool to remind you to be light.
I think it kind of fitting that your gear can record for you, even this crudely, an error, but not break or fall off.
Kool, no?
Donald.
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) to make them to eachother in a circle, gotta go test it this afternoon (asked my teacher to let me go early today, and lucky me he did! Well he had to leave early himself...)