How To Tie A Double Fisherman's Knot | Bushcraft & Outdoor Knots

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paulkirtley.co.uk In this video, I share how to tie the double fisherman's knot, one that I find particularly useful for fixing lanyards and neatly joining cords of the same diameter. It's difficult to untie once pulled tight - this is both a benefit and a problem, depending on the application, so be aware of this.

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hi guys Paul curtly here and in this video I would like to share with you the double fisherman's knot which I find particularly useful for certain jobs like creating lanyards for pocket knives and fire steels and that type of thing but it's got a range of other uses as well it's very neat and aesthetically pleasing not as well and I think it's a good one to have in your arsenal that you can use and when it's appropriate it's very difficult to get it untied when you want to and it's very difficult for it to come and done on its own as well which is why it makes a really good lanyard knot as well so this is how we do it okay now if we're making a lanyard I've introduced this in the context of lanyards but if we're making a lanyard we're going to take one piece of cord and we're going to loop it back on itself and we're going to use one of these double fisherman's to join those two ends together and we'll look at that in a second but more generally we could bring another piece of cord into the equation so you don't have to be making a lanyard you could be just joining two pieces of cord and you're going to bring them end to end before we do that let's just remind ourselves what an overhand knot is which is that it's as simple as not anyone could think of anyone could tie and if we put that into the context of joining two ropes together like this and through their like so you can see we get a single fisherman's knot and that works very nicely we could use that for our lanyards and there be nothing wrong with that

okay I've left some nice long tails and that's there's no chance of it slipping through but I think there's something aesthetically pleasing about a slightly different version based on the same idea which is to make a double fisherman's okay which is basically the same starting point into there need a little bit of a longer tail for a given amount protruding at the end we're going to go around twice this time so before we just went through once and we went through here we're going to go around again what you might call a thumb not okay like that through there and then we're going to do the same symmetrically once that's where we went for a single fisherman so you just keep going round behind the first one and we're going to go through here like so like that and we're going to pull that down so it's nice and tidy yeah and that's our so double fisherman and if I pull that really tight that's going to be really difficult to undo okay so it's why I like them for lanyards because once you pull them down they're really difficult to get and done and you can have really quite short tidy tails on them and they won't come undone okay I'll show you once more so I'm going to bring these end to end like so I'm going to go around around and that tale live ends going to go through there this one I'm going to go around and around and then we're going to go back through the middle of both of those loops back there through here pull that down you've got these two overlapping bits of cord with our thumb knots in each one and we bring those together pull that down and that is our double fisherman's very tidy and very nice okay so to make our to make a lanyard for example we're just going to bring together two ends of the same like here on my fire steel for example it's the same orange cord would you believe it's just this has been used a lot it's a bit dirty and but it shows you that you know this was tied a couple of years ago and it's not ever come undone yep I've got that original not here there's a double fisherman's yep there and that is on the clip for my fire steel and that's what attaches to my belt and then that goes in my pocket and it allows me to keep that safe similarly with my tk4 yet though I've gone through the hole in there in the handle there which is very secure and then I just need a knot that is not going to come undone and again I've got my double fisherman's there ok very tidy and that then clips onto a small carabiner which I attached to my belt and then that goes in my pocket and that is my backup knife as it were a lot of the time when I'm doing wilderness trips

very secure does not come undone and there is something just really satisfying about that little last bit of bringing them together and cinching them together and that is your double fisherman's well guys that's how we tie the double fisherman's knot I hope you found that instructive I hope that serves you well if you're gonna use it for your own lanyards or other uses you can find for it let me know what you think about that format whether or not that was clear whether or not you'd like to see different angles let me know it's always good to get your feedback and if you like this video please like and if you'd like to see more of this type of video please subscribe to my channel where I share a whole host of videos regarding bushcraft survival and outdoor life in general so thanks again for watching and I will see you on the next video take care guys Cheers [Music]

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