A brief tutorial on how to tie a 5 lead 4 bight Turk head knot. Also: I explain the process of raising TH knots two leads and two bights. Enjoy and please subscribe. More tutorials to come!
I had watched pretty much every Turks head knot video on the Internet twice and was still as confused as ever. I watched your video a couple of times and I had it! Thank you so much for the only "understandable" Turks head knot video!
One of the best if not the best turks head tutorial that I've seen. Like many I did not pick it up that quickly so I got the idea to keep pausing and making screen prints of every step and in the end it totalled 27 pictures on 14 pages. I printed the pages off and put it in my braiding / knot tying folder as a quick reference. Now the 5x4 and 7x6 turks head comes easily to me. From one Roger to another, thanks for your help.
I wished I had found you sooner. I have been watching videos on how to tie a turks head knot for 6 months. I watched yours once and it clicked. The explanation and video were both great. Count me as new and loyal subscriber.
This is the Knot from Hell! I wake up in the middle of the night with cold sweats. If I don't get this soon I'm going to give up and focus on how to make the hang mans noose.
Thank you for this video, Roger. I think if I watch enough videos on tying TH knots, I will finally get it. Of course it does help that I'm also tying the knots... Thank you for that extra part, too.
Thanks for an excellent tutorial presentation! I follow it step by step and it came out well beyond my expectations. But I over tighten it on a wooden cane and couldn't pin thru the last cord underneath to finish the turk's head for a perfect job. What a bumberrrr!!
I subscribed! I am a whipmaker and your tutorials for the turks head and 7x6 pineapple knot are the best on the web! I was having a very hard time till I watched these! And I watched about a dozen others before I gave these a chance. Might I suggest doing some with flat paracord in attractive colors like a heel knot to draw more attention from all the other normal tutorials.
One thing you can do instead of using a needle is soak the end of the cord with cyanurate/super glue however far down you want and it will become stiff, maybe a little sand paper will help it pass smoothly through your knot.
Generally when you go over 2 under 1, over 2 under 1 is when you are creating a bight to extend the Turks head, for example to go from 5x4 to 7x6. The other under 1, over 1 also creates a bight but it balances the Turks head with the correct number of overs and unders. A few years ago the Turks head was a mystery to me but I watched this video many, many times until I learned how to tie the 5X4 and 7X6 Turks head, now it’s easy.
