How to Tie a Thief Knot

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Now I'm going to demonstrate a thief knot. A thief knot is kind of in the same range as a granny knot or a square knot, reef knot. But it has a drastic difference. If you look down here you'll see that I've got an example already tied in. Now this is a reef knot, and as you can see that these ends right here, the working ends are on the same side of one another. They're both at the top or at the bottom, how ever it is that you are looking at this. And what I'm going to do is, I'm going to untie this. Now a thief knot is a bit different. I'm going to go ahead and pull a loop in it like so. I'm going to take this and its going to come in, around, over and under. Now, it looks just like a square knot, except the ends here are on opposite sides. And if you pull on this, you will see that this is going to give quite a bit, no matter what you do to it. It?s not really a stable knot. We're going to do this one more time just to show you and make sure we do this opposite of a reef knot. And we're going to pull this in here. I'm going to come under, wrap it, put it around both lines, and then back through. And you see that both working ends are opposite of each other.

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