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As confirmed by two people here and a third now, yes it is. Tutorial can be watched here:



The most difficult part about that one is the initial tie to start it off. Once you get that the rest is repetition until you run out of cord. Looks really nice for little effort.

That particular knot pissed me off because, for the longest time, I could tie it but forget the tie the next day. Had to keep looking it up and double checking my progress. I think it is memorized now.

Lookin' good. Any luck with the snake knot as of yet? Would give the lanyard a bit more fiddle factor. Unless you're using the bead as a choke, maybe you could try seating it with a snake knot?

to me the idea of me being the diamond knot

A small bit of hot glue or CA glue under the last crossovers of the knot will lock it in place. If you need to undo it down the line, you will need to cut it.

ATB,
Sam

Or just fuse the ends together. Should be enough to hold the knot at least. Don't have any hot glue handy around here and had to do that myself.

While learning rigging, my love of knots and rope-work was reawakened from my scout days. The number one resource I found was The Ashley Book of Knots. This book is so ubiquitous in the sea-faring and knotting communities that many knots are referred to by their ABOK# (A-shley B-ook O-f K-nots).

Not only a good place to start, but the best place to end up.

Those are wine corks covered with globe knots, tied using ventian blind cord, otherwise know as "Handy Hundreds" from R and W Rope Warehouse. The yellow one in back is a combination of gutted paracord and blind cord. The instructions of the globe knot came from a book by Don Burhuss, Globe Knot Cookbook, available on his web site. www.knottool.com