How to Make a Rope Soft Shackle
This particular version of as soft rope shackle was taken from Des Pawson’s book. This book I would highly recommend as it is packed with decorative knotting projects.
How to Tie The Lanyard Knot
The Lanyard Knot is a rather elegant knot that is tied into a end of multi-strand rope or cord. The Lanyard knot works well in a three strand rope, but in this video I show how I used it to make a Soft Shackle or Jib Shackle with six strands.
This particular knot was take from Des Pawson’s book:
How to Seize a Rope
In the making of the Jib Shackle I used flat seizing at the very top and near to the bottom of the soft shackle. I used the following method as shown in the diagram below, with the exception that I replaced the eye splice by using a Clove Hitch as my anchor point. Here is more information on How to Seize Rope. Which also includes a video on how to seize rope together.
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Hi I’m wondering where did you get the Rosewood handled marlinspike?
That was made for me by PJ who lives in the States. If you do an Internet search for custom spikes, you may find a good maker near you?