How Do You Tie A Sheet Bend Knot (With Photos?
Understanding how to tie a Sheet Bend knot is the key to making two short pieces of rope into a single long piece that is as strong as the rope itself you started with. If one of your two pieces is thicker than the other, hold it in your left hand. (We’ll call this the left hand rope for the remainder of the article.) “Fold” the left hand rope back on top of itself a few inches from the end. Holding the right hand rope behind the left, bring the end of the right up through the loop in the left rope. Push the right hand rope over the top of the left and wrap it around behind the left rope a full turn. Feed the right hand rope into the loop in itself and pull gently on both ropes to tighten up the knot. This knot is as strong as the weakest rope. Under tension, one of the two ropes will fail before the knot comes apart, yet when ready, it comes apart as easily as any knot out there. The key to this knots strength is the fact that you have two loops pulling tighter on each other. As the l
