Whippin'! (West Country Style)

When you're thinking of building a 20ft high swing made of pioneering poles you want to make sure you're using good quality sisal rope which is clean cut and whipped!

Whipping is the process of binding the rope to stop it fraying.  It's very easy to do.  For this instructable you need very thin twine or whipping string and an end of sisal rope.

Sisal rope is a natural (hemp) fiber rope.

Step 1 Starting out

I'm using a 9mm rope with a 50cm long piece of whipping twine.

The west country whipping requires two knots, one you're be familiar with when starting out tying your shoe laces.  See below image and once you've done it.  This is an overhand knot.

Comments

[hobbyhawk32]

unwaxed floss works great for smaller rope

[Pazzerz]

Here's another one.  This will leave you with no loose ends showing.  Make a long(ish) loop and wrap your string neatly around the loop from the beginning side of your string (1).  Slide the string through the loop when you've wrapped enough to suit your fancy, but not over the end of the loop(2).  Pull the beginning of the string (1) to pull the loop under the wrappings.  Cut the string on the bottom (where the loop used to show) next to the wrappings.  Also cut the beginning of your string at the edge of the wrappings.  It stays tight and there aren't any loose ends to snag or allow it to unravel.

[rimar2000]

Clever!

[tim_n]

A good site for knots (including west country whipping) is http://www.animatedknots.com