How to Tie a Surgeon's Knot

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Now the surgeons bend is also called a binding knot. And that's pretty much kind of a misrepresentation, because its not really a good knot. Because it does have a bit of slack in it. So you really don't want to use this too much. Its called a surgeons bend, because at one point it might have been used in surgical procedures. Its kind of uncertain, many people just have the assumption that it was. So what I've got here, on my table here. Is I've got two ropes coming in. They're coming in at opposite side towards one another. Now what I'm going to do, is I'm going to take these ropes, and I'm going to twist them counter clockwise, left handed, however you want to call it. And we'll make a double twist, and I'm going to go ahead and put one more in it, that's three twists. And I'm going to pull a little bit more length on my working ends here. And as you can see I've got nice good three twists in it, three half twists. And I'm going to bring these two over, and what I'm going to do is to offset these counter clockwise twists, I'm going to do two clockwise twists. Or right hand twists. Either way. Doesn't matter how you start, you can actually start this bottom piece as a clockwise, but as long as you do this on the opposite sides, so it does create a binding force when you pull these two together. And with the opposite twists working on one another, this will keep this knot from slipping too much. But like I said, its not a very secure knot, its not much of a load bearing knot. It does have bit of slack in it. But its still a very pretty knot.

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