Tighten a Shear Lash Easily

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance Outfitters in the Pathfinder school I'm beginning to work on a dip net here I've formed this net earlier in the spring if I'm a pliable piece of aero wood and just lashed it together quickly to make this loop on this end and now I'm getting ready to lash it down to a handle so I put a thicker piece of handle material in between the two and I've started with a timber hitch and I'm going to show you real quick a simple trick on how to keep this tight that's used by broom makers and this was taught to me by Tony Daniel and instead of using a broom Turner I'm not sure what the correct name for that piece is but it's a piece of wood that you wrap your line around you put your foot on top of it and as you tighten down you're keeping pressure on that with your feet to let it really slowly so that you can't keep this lashing tight what I'm gonna do instead is just stand on the string so let me show you that real quick okay so I left my cordage on the roll so I don't have to worry about how much I'm going to use or cutting the right amount now I'm getting a technique very similar to what Brubaker's use and I was taught this by Tony Daniel and they generally coiled their string with a cord around the block that they can hold under their feet to pull tension up on to twist the lashing down and if you're doing a long shear lashing instead of pulling on that lasting all the time to keep it taut and worrying about how much string you've got did you cut enough is it long enough is it too long did you waste cordage this is a really easy way to do this just stand on the cord pull straight up into yourself with it and that will make that lashing tight as you go down keep all of your wraps nice and neat dress everything up as you go and when you get down to where you need to let some more line out just let a little more out stand on it again and you can pull up quite a bit of tension on that thing to keep that lashing nice and tight and basically all this is a shear lash that's lashing three pieces together with the body of this net going around a larger handle

so that I can then weave the net portion into it for landing that I purposely went up a little further here then it was bent just to give myself a little bit of extra support there this is really really quick it's really easy and it's really efficient I'll show you how we tie this off and we get to the top you can see what I'm getting right now okay now as we get close to the end here we're going to you put let's call the jerk string in here when I started wrapping that in we're just gonna put it underneath everything just like this and it's just a loop and I'll explain to you what you use for here in a minute we're just going to wrap it into our wrapping kind of make sure it's up here in the middle just like that make sure we got enough loop exposed up there keep it right in the center and then we're going to treat it like it wasn't even there and wrap this thing the rest of the way up and I would recommend eight or ten wraps at least around that jerk string I may have more than that it's not going to hurt anything and now I'm getting up here to the top of this thing so I'm trying to really put some stress on this to pull these uprights together on this handle okay the first thing we want to do is we want to cut off this tag and then we went to you and coil our jerk string here if it got twisted a little bit in there put that tail right through the jerk string and then come over to our jerk string and put a toggle in there and start to pull that down and we want to do is we want to pull that right in there just like that till it pull straight through the bottom and then we can take this and trim it off and burn it down and now we've got a good solid frame when our dead net with a nice handle we cut this thing off to the link with one and we're ready to weave a net in here