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I am desirous to have my very own sea chest for PiP and have been looking around and found this web site..

http://www.marlinespike.com/beckets.html Time to save...

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A quick search through "my Favorites" didn't turn it up..... but I know that somewhere I have or found a tutorial on how to make them yourself......

So don't buy them... make them....

But let me find where it is first.....

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Beckets aren't difficult to do. They aren't even particularly time consuming. The hardest part for me is not the becket itself but the piece it hangs from (the piece of line beneath the wooden cleat). I wouldn't bother with canvas convering on the knots. It's beautiful but ups the difficulty level a million percent. Somewhere around here I did a small tutorial on the most basic grommet type becket just do a forum search. For a horseshoe/bow type becket the basic process is to make up a pudding of small stuff in the basic shape you want then cover it over with a variety of fancywork. This is the same technique as the larger bellropes.

Edit: Found the original thread

https://pyracy.com/index.php?showtopic=8241&hl=beckets

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I am at a very basic level when it comes to knot tying. However eye have committed to learning some and even bought a few books.. Because of the level of dificulty of making them on my own could be.. Eye was indulging the thought of buying them for the chest I want.. Patrick I will wait and see if you find some info first though.

I was thinking about Sutler making the chest but have yet to contact him..

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As he was about to face the gallows there, the pirate is said to have tossed a sheaf of papers into the crowd, taunting his audience with these final words:

"My treasure to he who can understand."

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I learned how to make chest beckets from the Marlinspike Sailor by Hervey Garrett Smith its a great book to learn from and illistrated nicely for tying many different knots , now that i've already made the beckets i'm working on making a chest to put them on

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Eye have that book..

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Hangin at Execution dock awaits. May yer Life be a long and joyous adventure in gettin there!
As he was about to face the gallows there, the pirate is said to have tossed a sheaf of papers into the crowd, taunting his audience with these final words:

"My treasure to he who can understand."

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