The "shot" portion was often a ball from a grapeshot garland. These were 1/4 pound lead or cast iron balls packed into a canvas bag, each layer separated by thin wooden disks. A very effective anti-personnel weapon from the days of wooden warships and muzzle loading cannon.

This is a combination of knots I have learned over time while watching your videos and lots of practice. So blessed to see this project come together.

Thank you so much for doing these videos ! A true artistic craftsman !

That acoustic version of "Forever Young" hit me right in the feels. The rope work was excellent too! I'm officially a fan of this channel.

@HinrikS

3 жыл бұрын

same

@jakobjaxtyn4628

3 жыл бұрын

I guess it's kinda randomly asking but do anybody know a good site to stream new tv shows online ?

@zanderryder7946

3 жыл бұрын

@Jakob Jaxtyn try Flixzone. You can find it by googling :)

The golden hands and the brilliant work!

These knots are similar to those found in a Bos'n Mates "monkey fist", used to throw a small line ship to ship or to a pier. The trailing end of the small line is tied to a larger one and heaved to a cleat to tie down a ship or transfer supplies, mail or even sailors between ships. Modern Navies now use a line and spool attached to a rifle which shoots the line longer distances.

A beautiful day at the lake for you, and a nice project for people like me, who are trying to improve their knotting skills. Thank you for taking the time and effort to make another great video. 🙏🏼🤝🤙🏻

Great work as always, its a pleasure to see you in action 😀👋👋👏👏

What an amazing video! I love these guys who preserve the old traditional rope tricks and fid skills. The leather shot pouch really did it for me. I might opt for lead shot rather than sand, but sand works.

Dear Mikko, it's just another fantastic seaman ropework! Tks for sharing it.

Loved watching this. Absolutely loved it.

Really enjoyed watching that being created!

Thanks Mikko for this very esplicative video, this is the knot of my dream list! I’ll try to replicate it very soon.. thanks to teaching us in such detailed way!

So elegant, the changing of the cord!

Very impressive, sir. Much respect

My hat is off for your highly skilled hands sir. Thank you for taking the time to make this video. I really enjoyed it.

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you find it useful.

The knots are super, but I just dig your taste in music brother.

Like the video, love the level of craft is shown and enjoy the final product.

Thank you for sharing this!! WOW! #WOW!

Splendid work.

Beautiful work Mikko. 👏🏻

My good sir, this was amazing. Videos like this are what KZread was made for. The amount of artisan skill that is needed to make one is stunning. Thank you for taking time to show us how a slungshot is made. That is most likely the oldest "nonlethal" concealable weapon specifically made for personal protection. Items from the world before plastic always tickle my fancy.

@romandybala

3 жыл бұрын

Nonlethal??? A bow to the temple would be fatal.

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, the original design was meant to injure only but accidents happen so better to have quick feet instead of a fight.

@ReasonAboveEverything

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikkosnellman My 100 meter time is 13 seconds. I should be fine... I hope.

@ReasonAboveEverything

3 жыл бұрын

@@romandybala Yeah, "nonlethal". I have made few blacksaps and slungshots from leather using the sandwich technique. The braided ones are really hard to figure. These things can deal serious damage. I remember reading an old document of late 1800s senior police officer describing people who carry slungshots to a freshly graduated police officer. Apparently these things can cause worse damage than razors and people who carry these things to public dances and similar events are worse than demons and should be shunned by the community.

This is beautifully intricate and amazing to watch. Thank you for your upload. The subject, presentation and music throughout was all together a very satisfying experience. You're awesome man

@mikkosnellman

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind words.

Great work Mikko. You're such a good teacher, I reaaly appreciate all the time you put into making these videos.

This was great! I remember making these when I was in the American Navy for shipmates (and a little pin money). Your instructions are clear and much better than the way I used to make them. I have daughters and granddaughters for whom I will be making these. Thanks!

excellent video...and the music...I was at a small concert long time ago, where Doc Watson was playing "a whiter shade of pale"...what a treasure...thank you for real quality videos

It’s mesmerizing to watch you braid and twist that cordage.

I recognized so many parts of this project and the combination transforms them into a new whole! Let's see, there was string... and then you tied some knots... maybe I got a bit lost there in the middle, lol! I've tied some of those sinnets and Turkshead knots and the needle hitching (?) around the bag reminds of some crochet I've done. I love how the whole length is a coherent structure. Thank you for the video and inspiration!

Wow! What beautiful, precise craftsmanship from which to learn many things. I usually hate KZread music, but what you've chosen is spectacular. Thank you so much for a wonderful, calming, teaching video with excellent visual instruction and a superb result. I have thousands of YT videos bookmarked for many different types of craft projects, but this is one of my all-time favorites.

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it!

Beautiful thank you 🙏

Another Awesome Video, Mikko! Every time I watch one of your videos I feel I've absorbed more information. This was an inspiring project. While watching I was not only thinking that I would like to create a piece in similar fashion, but to also create another piece based on this, but taken up a notch. I hope you understand just how much sharing your work is truly an inspiration.

@mikkosnellman

2 жыл бұрын

That´s the way to do it Rich. Being able to inspire others is the greatest acknowledgement. Thank you for your feedback.

Thank you for the tutorial.

Very beautiful work . Спасибо !

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

пожалуйста

Screw on needles ,hard to find ,great job, nice music ,nice surroundings .. Thank you!!

Love your spot bro how relaxing

amazing knotw rk, your patience and skill are to be admired. that pouch was intuitive and lookes great, i dig theattachmentt method.

Very nice. Thank you.

A real piece of maritime history right there. Also a great example of skilled folk making what they need with the materials they had to hand. British sailors would have called this a 'life preserver'. There is a reference to one in the lyrics of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta ' The Pirates of Penzance.'

That's a great key chain idea.

Beautiful work as always! That cordage is so tightly laid, looks like a pleasure to work with.

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

It is my favorite cord 😁

This is great! I've long wanted to try making a slungshot like the ones in ABoK, but until now I couldn't quite follow his description of how the shot bag was made fast to the lanyard. Thank you!

Really great video, thank you!

@mikkosnellman

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

great work!

Just the right thing to attach to a bit of line, to heave a length of cord up over a branch overhead. It’s a big project, but pretty exciting. :D Tyvk for another awesome tutorial!

Now I’m sure tying knots is a craft, great job, Sir!

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

Tying knots is art! Thank you!

@pedromarinela

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, i am french and my english is not very good...... if a frenchman says " it's a craft" he wants to express his admiration, and i agree, it's an art!

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

I thank you for the compliment!

AWESOME MUSIC

Wow Mikko. Bravo sir. Nicest piece ever. I will make one and send a photo. It is so symmetrical, gracefully shaped, and I love it. Thank you for sharing.

@mikkosnellman

Жыл бұрын

Please do!

Yes I cant wait to "put this on my wall".

That looks really neat, I am forever trying to tie a rope to a rock to hang my food out of bear's reach. I think this will be easier to toss over a high branch with a rope tail.

I can’t wait til one of the criminals in my city tries something. He can have his bones decorated with my relocation device. Lol I must add you make it look so easy. To me you can tell the skill of a craftsman by how easy he makes things look. I love knot tying from my childhood my grandfather was ww2 navy and my scout master was also ex navy. We used to tie monkey fist for fun. Your braiding is next level . I really enjoyed your video.

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. And everything is easy if you practice enough 😁

I first learned of a monkey's fist as a tool for throwing lines across distance such as ship to ship or ship to shore. These lines were then used for hauling heavier ropes and hawsers. In my case we used the monkey's fist to throw lines across a wide stream, then pulled ropes to make a monkey bridge to traverse the stream.

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, like I said in the introduction, a slungshot is like a very short heaving line.

Vc e o cara meu !!!👍👍⚓⚓⚓⚓⚓⚓🙏♥️very Good !!!

Yes, this is exactly what I wanted! I can't remember if I requested it or if you read my mind but thank you nevertheless!

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

Well someone requested, maybe it was you...

@arturorodriguez2234

3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting video sir....and strong accent....cheers from Texas..

In the lies of locke lamora a character uses one of these filled with spices and chilli powder instead of weight, like a medieval form of mace or pepper spray

Tis a thing of Beauty

Superb work as always Mikko. I think I'd rather have one smack from that piece of kit, than two 🤔 ✌❤ Bob.

@terryernest6264

3 жыл бұрын

design to be used to someone's crown jewels I suspect with a small cannon lead shot... : )

I would definitely buy one.

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

I know a guy who could make it happen... 😁

I like the music too.. I recognize them all but a few i can't remember original musicians

34:00, man of constant sorrow.

If I'm not mistaken it was also used when the sailors went into town and was shanghaiing some people to bring them back to the ships. Now don't quote me on this I'm not 100% sure. But if I'm not mistaken I think I read it somewhere

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

So the story tells. 😉

Have a simpler version hanging in the garage...the core is a golf ball ...I never played golf in my life, but I was a sailor once 😉

7 minutes in and i have only seen about 30 secs the soundtrack ,on the other hand, is off the chain

Wasn't just sailors who carried them. I remember reading an article on this in Backwoodsman Magazine. A gent of Latin descent was with a party of trappers and a fellow trapper was being attack by a grizzly bear (seems to have been an occupational hazard) He couldn't get a clear shot on a leathal area so he shot where he could and waded in with his knife and a slugshot. His first strike broke the bear's jaw and they found him under the bear, mumbling in Spanish, "Come at me if you're a good man" (or something along that line) Don't underestimate blunt force trauma.

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, once upon a time, slungshot was widely used weapon. However, the origin is from sailing ships. Good story 😁

its for a total different use, indeed for ships......think! its a ballast added to throw the rope on land!

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, a piece of heaving line was the origin for a slung shot.

Wow, so that is what it is called? I have a set of heavy keys on a sturdy key ring attached to a length of paracord. The neat thing is that you can use it like you would use nunchucks.

@Willy_Tepes

3 жыл бұрын

@fred McMurray Since I live in a country were carrying weapons is strictly prohibited, it needs to look innocent, but I found the heaviest keys I could. This also works with a knife as it strikes with the flat side when it bounces off your body.

Maybe someone has already mentioned this. In Sweden we use this device to attach to a rope that needs to be thrown ashore or to another ship, not for fighting.

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

As I mentioned in the beginning of the video, the first slung shots were inspired by a heaving line. Usually heaving lines are not this decorative but just a simple monkeys fist.

I might be too early in the video, or maybe I missed it, but what type of cordage did you use? Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

That would be my hard laid linen #6 and #4 www.snellman.ax

For the hitching, did you make that cordage and would I be able to order that cordage on your website? Beautiful piece, btw. I've been reading up on sailor history bit by bit as of lately. Thank you for sharing as always!

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

I am quite busy with orders but email me and we'll see what can be done.

Cranes!

more people should teach old craft skills. skills that took thousands of years to figure out disappear from our knowledge bank in just a few decades. these days we think we're so smart, when really we're just pushing buttons.

@mikkosnellman

5 ай бұрын

I´m doing my best :)

Thanks for Knottin'

Hey Mikko, great series. Love knots an love the linking of one to another. I live in the USA, Idaho really, where do you source your small stuff, 3 mm 3 strand flax cord?

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

I am ropemaker, that is what I do for living. International shipping. www.snellman.ax

@CliffStockton

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikkosnellman Do you have a link to where I could order?

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

I will launch new website when I have moved ropewalk to new location. Orders by email.

astonishing ... you can see how the Celtic tribes derived their artwork from ... :)

Great work! What kind of tar is this, for protecting the rope? Or is this a tar pitch.

@mikkosnellman

Жыл бұрын

I use a mixture of pine tar and shellac: ko-fi.com/post/Secret-tar-mix-Y8Y73441X

That'll knock the sense right out of you... Mutiny ya say? *smack* wipe the tar off 'em lads and take to the stocks.

A slungshot is presumably a New Zealand slingshot!

I would have thought this would be used as a line sling with a thrown with a light line through the loop to get the line up into the rigging or over to an other ship. Something that's largely replaced by a modern line gun.

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

Like I tried to explain, a piece of heaving line is the forefather.

What kind of cordage is that? I’ve never seen it for sale anywhere, thanks.

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

That is what I make for living. I can not take any more orders though before I have moved ropewalk to new location. www.snellman.ax

If I (being in the states) can't get 2.5mm for the needle hitching easily, will close enough work? Like, 2.1, 2.75 or 3.0mm?

@mikkosnellman

Жыл бұрын

I would go smaller but anything under 3mm will do fine.

Those are awesome! I make the Monkey fist. but the one you made there is just pure skill, historic and beautiful. Do you sale them, if so how could I get one of yours? I am prior Navy and my Father-n-law is a retired Navy Chief and would love to get one for him to display his office. Thank you for the video and your skill.

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the feedback. I could make one for sale also but as you see it is very time consuming work so it won´t be cheap.

@MegaTeddybear04

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikkosnellman thank you, it would probably be worth it.

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

@@MegaTeddybear04 If you would like to make an order, please email me to: info(at)snellman.ax

What material of rope do you use?

Next time i get boarded the scallywags wont know what hit em

Amen to skkabbott!

Yeah... an old sock with a pool ball in the toe and the ankle doubled over into a loop for the wrist and zip-tied works better and is "disposable."

Bra tips och video. var bor du ?

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

I Södra Finland.

J’adore, je suis fan, je vais m’en faire un, et je l’appellerai Mikko ☺️

I've heard these referred to as 'monkey fist'

My neighborhood is kinda rough... maybe I'll start packing one of them there Slap A Hos

Would they have used it for seal clubbing?

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

No, for seal clubbing a wooden, smooth club was used for not making any wound in skin.

Thats a boleadora it's an Argentinian weapon that Gauchos (Argentinian cowboys) use even today

How about showin its effectiveness? It looks like a premium slungshot

Great work - Great music What the Name of the Artist ?

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

That would be the one and only: Martin Tallström www.tallstrom.com

@AnyhowItsMe

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikkosnellman thank You - all the best to you and your work !

So how did the sailors clean the blood off those ? . . . just asking 🙄

What kind of cord is that, and where to get it?

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

2.5mm linen. www.snellman.ax

@briangeiger6153

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikkosnellman thank you very much.

I'm gonna heat up a self made smoke sauna tomorrow, you have any smoke saunas around there? :)

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

Not here but in neighbour village there is.

@pystykorva7114

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikkosnellman Perfect ;)

Can you teach how to make own mandrel for globe knot. Thanks

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I don´t use mandrels. I tie around my fingers instead.

@TheOlegLviv

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikkosnellman thanks

I don't suppose you know how many oz's of sand you used?

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

No, I didn't measure.

Just remember that if you live in the US, in a number of states a slung shot is illegal. In Vermont it’s a misdemeanor. Make one for a fun project, but don’t carry it around.

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

As I said, for decorational purposes only!

What kind of corsage is that??

@mikkosnellman

3 жыл бұрын

That would be my linen in 3 and 2,5mm www.snellman.ax

I would to see whait would do to a coconut and a watermelon..