I love your old school attitude, from the sanding to the way you made the thread fit into it, with a little bit of wood....lol. 👍

Thank you !! A lacing needle! I didn’t feel right calling it a fid, I made my own fid and marlin spike while sailing aboard a traditionally rigged Baltic trader. I was going to make a lacing needle on the lathe from a large “gutter nail” until I found my old palm pilot stylus which already has a threaded end. I may still turn my own just for fun. Thanks again.

Honestly this video deserves more likes lol

love your slow, calm, useful tutorials.

@mikkosnellman

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

That's brilliant! I love your sense of humor too :)

Brilliant! I am so tired trying to find lacing needles in the sizes I need (and then affording them). All through the first part I kept wondering how you were going to do the inside threading. That was the epiphany for me. So simple but so ingenious!

@sethrenville798

Жыл бұрын

You can also use the tips of the sharp tip metal darts, I came to find, due to inability to access anything else

I’m so happy I’m here. I love knot working. 😀😊😊

Thank you Mr Snellman for keeping the sailors art alive, and passing on the knowledge. Like many arts, stone masonry, carpentry (dovetails, tenons, etc), these arts are seen as no longer useful, I've seen modern riggers who couldn't tie a knot to save themselves, tools sent up on a message line attached with electrical tape. Good luck from Australia.

Brilliant. Well done Mikko.

Brilliant video! Many thanks for sharing... Saves my tons of time searching the right size!

Fantastic tutorial! I have to try one day. Thank you, Sir!

GREAT JOB YOUNG MAN SO GLAD TO FINALLY BE ABLE GET TO SEE YA UP CLOSE. THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO LAUGHT. I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU SOON. I LOOK YOU GOT IN THE DIRTY HANDS🤣🤣

Thanks for the video and a great tip to make a lacing needle.

I like your ideas about tools.

Nicely done. Thank you for sharing.

Very nice and simple as well as useful. Awesome! 👍🏻

Im going to make a few micro ones 1mm with 3mm brass predrilled round rods,great to see one made before iwas about to get the tap n die set out,marvelous now i just need a wood screw,saved me a bit of time there.looks like i also finish the epoxy double syringe stinky glue!! thank you for sharing ox

Fantastic video with great directions.. Thank you

A very useful tutorial! Thank you.

Brilliant! And nice to hear your voice too. 👌

Bloody brilliant! Thanks for that.

Thank you so very much for making this video mate ! Have been searching where to buy one of these needles to repair my goalie pads ❤

Absolutely phenomenal

Excellent! Well Done. 👍🏻

Sir, with this video you solve a problem I had a long time ago. Thank you very very much. Señor, con este video me resuelve un problema que tenía hace tiempo. Muchas muchas gracias.

@mikkosnellman

4 жыл бұрын

You are most welcome!

Genial...justo lo que yo quería.! Mil gracias por compartir...!

Outstanding I think I can do that. Thanks much.

Great Work

Very cool , man. Tks for tutorial. Greetings from Brazil! \o/

Great video , Cheers ! Thanks

Thanks for teaching me something new , I gave you a Thumbs up , I'm number 594

I am brasilian. Tank you, so much...

Very helpful thanks.

its really nice to put a voice to your face ,that was a great tutorial ,could you show us how to make a swedish fid i think thats what they are called ,thanks a lot

@mikkosnellman

4 жыл бұрын

maybe someday...

@mdphybes

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

Very interesting!

The threading method did the trick for me. I'm preparing to use the tubes of a collabsible extension for making some lacing tools ... I saw a design called 'fid' that was designed to penetrate accept and capture the cord with a narrowing at the end for friction to extract the cord. I'm not sure that it shouldn't be called a 'feedle'

thank you , very useful

Wonderful. |Thank you.

Nice to hear you speak. I would love to see more how-to videos like this. Particularly making brass and steel fids, presumably on a lathe?

@mikkosnellman

4 жыл бұрын

All requests are welcome.

Thank you. Might be adaptable for split braid needles.

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, just add grip function and handle.

Made me a subscriber!

Wonderful...!!!!

Thank you Mikko. ✌

Tyvk, Sir! I have been contemplating cutting the end of a knitting needle to try to make one. I’m rather glad not to have to part with it. :-)

thanks for sharing i subbed,..none of my local hobby stores carry lacing needles for 550 paracord

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

And you are not limited to their design. 😁

I think I have a discarded wind chime tube just the right size. There is nothing to be ashamed of having working hands, it is something no longer seen in most of the new generations

Very nice. Just for the record those aren't dirty fingers, they are "working" fingers. Don't know if you can really trust clean fingers😀

Thks

Amazing! Could you possibly do a video on the pineapple knot?

@mikkosnellman

4 жыл бұрын

I think there are several videos on that topic made already, but will think about it.

nice

IT SPEAKS!!!

Great video. Two things: 1) His accent makes me think he knows his stuff 2) He sounds like StrongBad

Me gustan esas manos de verdadero artesano!!! (y aclaro que no me gustan los hombres). LIKE!

Nice. I wonder if a .22 brass cleaning rod would work?

@mikkosnellman

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it does.

Modern knitting needles make good lacing needles as well. They come in all sizes from about 1mm up and have a pre-made point on them. You just have to man up and be seen buying knitting needles or convince a female to buy them for you.

@mikkosnellman

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I use them for giveaway needles. The only challenge without proper tools is to get a hole in dead center for threads.

I should think that old worn out cleaning rod pieces could be used also, and one end is already threaded.

@mikkosnellman

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, they are also about the right size.

You finish with the tag line "Easy as pie" and it is used exactly that way in English, "couldn't be easier" As someone who actually makes pies...I might even say "Easier than pie" lol. And I understand being uncomfortable speaking another language, although in my humble opinion, a measure of pride should also follow, no matter how poorly you believe you express yourself. I can only speak and read in one.

@grimtt

2 жыл бұрын

True, Mr Snellman speaks better English than many of the people who were born here where I live in the US.

I didn't know you talked haha

@mikkosnellman

4 жыл бұрын

Talking in foreign language makes me feel uncomfortable...

@adamems2540

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikkosnellman you did a fantastic job

@MabelTyingTuts

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikkosnellman I know the feeling but you do a very good job at it.

so much of a screamer in the beginning!!

Don’t put adverts in the middle of the You Tube as I will never use your product again.

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately I don´t get to choose the possible adverts, KZread does that.

@simonsignolet5632

3 жыл бұрын

Madam, I believe you! When I was watching, the adverts were for moustache wax and nose hair trimmers. ;-)

@simonsignolet5632

3 жыл бұрын

Now it's Nigel Farage - EVEN WORSE!!!

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

Too bad. The videos in my coffee shop are though ad free.

We know how to use the fucking epoxy….just show us how to make the damned fid!

@mikkosnellman

2 жыл бұрын

Here´s how you make a fid ;) kzread.info/dash/bejne/jGVlpZuaaN2bhKg.html