Nate, I built the jig (with slight variations and shortcuts) a few days ago and I made the clew today. I watched your instruction several times before starting to do it actually and I kept your video right in front of me while I did it. It turned out exactly as you showed, thank you very much!
I very much appreciated this! It allowed me to take apart my wife's favorite, 15 year old, hammock chair, refinish the wood and make a new clew and hang it good as new. Thank you!
Nice work. We had an old chief bosun teaching stuff like this on the destroyer i was stationed on back in the early 70's. When we weren't at battle stations, he would sit and show the rope items were made. This was right up there with his stuff. Simply intricate. Thanks for sharing!
So clear and clever. Thank you for making easy what I have thought would be difficult. I HATE to throw away good things and now I can fix my beloved hammock.
I herited from my dad his NAVY hammoc and the clew need to be replace. I did not know how since i got the hammoc. Thank to you now i will be able to do it.
I just bought a hammock stand today, and the seller threw the hammock in for free as a rodent chewed through part of the quilted canvas and much of the clew rope. Now I can fix it and have this $300 hammock in working shape!
Awesome video, enjoyed doing this art shown to you by your Father, thanks for sharing. My hammock turned out really good and now I want to make a chair, which I think will have varied lengths of rope. If you have a template for this I'd be really grateful.
Interesting. The original keeps the traveler/cross-ropes (?) parallel where they go from side to side. Looks flatter and a bit neater. (Not criticising, only observing; I've never seen this done before, so I'm not an expert) Thanks for showing us!
Clew is the old word for a ball of yarn. The ‘thread’ of a story. The ball of thread to help you out of a maze. Clue does come from clew. So you weren’t that far of.
Hi many thanks for sharing , a very systematic clear presentation !!! The photo of the old work is a very important detail !!! Congratulations and best wishes .
Looks like you could put a keychain loop or binder ring or whatever around each string, put the blue painter tape strings' rings to the back and the other set to the front.. Connect all rings on each side with a rod or whatever, then you don't have to re-run the rod each time
Hello from Portugal 🇵🇹 you’ve explained everything in a way that everyone can understand. Can you please tell me the measurements of the rope? And how much rope did you kept on your left? Can you tell me in centimeters? Thank you so much 😊🇵🇹
BRILLIANT!!! Thank you for this amazing demonstration. Your presentation is so easy to follow. Would you consider doing a demonstration of how the rest of the hammock is made and how to finish the opposite end? Grüße aus Deutschland!
Un sincero saludo desde mi hermosa cartagena Colombia.exelente trabajo.en mi país se llama cabeza de amaca. Deberían de subir la traducción para quienes no entendamos el idioma.le quedó súper hermosa
Any body slept in one of these navy hammocks who can give a review of how to set up a sleep in the navy style hammock? Quite different from the many gathered end hammocks in videos on RU-vid. Nice video, thanks!
Use 42" wide canvas that is 88" long. The finished dimensions of the hammock are 39" wide 80" long. I believe the canvas is at minimum a #4(24 oz) double fill duck. The clew rope is a 3/16" 3-strand cotton 50' long.
I can only find ONE problem. When you shoot the working runner through, it should always be the same, as in right side through then left side through, I vice versa.. wonderful bit of rope work.
What is the purpose of the clew? I have made several hammocks just using a single knot to tie the ripstop or canvas. The result is similar to the eno style hammocks. Does the clew have some benefits over the eno style hammocks?
Thanks very much for a nice clear instruction video. I do have one question however, I notice that your nails along the bottom part of the frame are not in a straight line and seem quite specifically curved, why is that please?
It's covered in my video on the clew jig build. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-umPTAlLu4ZY.html The curve is there because the measurements on an actual WWII navy clew had those lengths.
@@natelarge ah...brilliant, thank you so much for taking the time to reply. I visited our local marine chandlers yesterday to look at their ropes etc as I’m going to follow your instructions and build a hammock. :-)
A dumb question, so sorry in advance, but my jig needs to be the same width as my hammock - right? I ask because your jig is only 20" wide, but your Grandpa's hammock looks much wider than that - maybe 36-40 inches.
Awesome instructions!!! Clear and concise!!!! I’ve been looking for a video to teach me this for a long time!!! Ok so I got the clew part so how do u weave the rest of the hammock I would love to be able to make my own!!!!!
thank for sharing ! So well explained ! I was looking for this kind of tutorial to occupy my son who wants a hamac "home made" ! Just a question : how much long is the rope to make the clew ? Thank you !!
That's cool and all - but I'm curious why they're constructed like that. Is it to reinforce the ropes that are likely to have the most weight on them? (the ones closest to the center)
Very nice! Knots are really fascinating for me. One question: what can you use this for? I mean, what can it be apart from a very nice decorative thing? Sorry for my ignorance Edit: I checked what a hammock is 😂. Sorry, English is not my native language
