The Complete Book of Knots | 
 enlarge | Author: Geoffrey Budworth
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 50573
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 7.6 x 0.7
ISBN: 1558216324
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.8882
EAN: 9781558216327
ASIN: 1558216324
Publication Date: July 1, 1997
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Condition: Publisher's Overstock, Excellent Condition, may have remainder mark
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Product Description
A beautifully illustrated guide to knots for home and the outdoors.
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 Five stars easy August 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've owned half a dozen knot books, and this is the best of them. The problem with so many knot books is they show you step three as step one, and make you feel like an idiot because you can't even start. This one doesn't do that. It has by far the easiest instructions for a monkey's fist of any book I've seen.
I don't get the critical reviews. The author is a certified knot superstar and certainly knows his junk. He's seen the other books, and wrote this one. I think most of the criticisms fall into the "over-analyzing" category, or people who just aren't comfortable with two-thumbs-upping anything. Listen--this is a fantastic book. You want to learn knots? It'll teach you.
 Best entry-level knot book I've seen. July 11, 2008
I'm terrible with knots; took me forever to get my 2nd Class Scout badge forty odd years ago because of knots! There are more comprehensive and detaild knot books out there and there are even animated knot-tying websites, but this book's combination of good explanations and illustrations worked for me. For someone whose shoes are rarely neatly tied, it enabled me to stand in front of my instructor in my Master's class and tie my eight knots. Now my Sperrys are tied with sheet bends and have rolled back stoppers at the ends of the laces.
 Decent Illustrations, Interesting Histories July 10, 2008
The book wasn't quite as complete as I had hoped, but the illustrations are good, and the short histories on the knots were interesting. For the price, it was a fine book. Some knots have different names and it seems that there were several repeated knots in the pages of the book. I'm sure this was because of the way the book was organized, but I would rather have had more knots than repeated ones.
 If you are new to knots this book is helpful March 23, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was new to knots so I found this book rather entertaining, it is not too technical nor too complex, neither too large. It indicates the use of the knots so it comes kinda handy. I think I am ready for next-level knots (more elaborated).
 Disappointing November 12, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I picked this book up to learn how to tie a couple of the more obscure climbing knots like the trident and triple bowline and to have fun with the rest. The book is well organized (except for the utterly useless directory of knots), and the diagrams are large. My gripe is that he skips steps, and magically produces extra slack halfway through a knot. There are cases where I have thrown the book down and had to figure it out by trial and error (not what I paid $20 for). Furthermore some of the methods he uses to tie knots (such as the butterfly) are flat out strange, or clumsy. When I'm up 100 feet and my life depends on it I need more efficiency.
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