How to Tie a Zeppelin Bend

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Part of the video series: How to Tie Rope Bends

Summary: Learn tips on how to tie a correct Zeppelin bend knot in this free video clip on knot and bend tying.

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By Robert Segundo
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Robert Segundo has been an artist since he could hold a pencil. In his 10 years in graphic design, he has worked on advertising projects with costs ranging in millions of dollars. He...read more

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knottiguy said

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on 7/22/2009 ....continued.... I ended up with what looked like a 'wierd' looking Euro Death Knot/Offset Overhand Bend.

If you want to learn how to tie the zeppelin bend correctly, go to this web page:

http://www.survivaltopics.com/survival/how-to-make-a-zeppelin-bend-knot/

It doesn't take long to master, and it's a great way of tying together two lengths of just about any two lengths of - well- any material of cordage of similar diameters, even fabric and plastic webbing.

Robert Segundo, your personal grooming skills may be second-to-none: but your prized, hand-sewn knot badge should be swiftly and cruelly taken from you WITH IMMIDIATE EFFECT, and only handed safely back AFTER you have redone this video, in my humble opinion.

knottiguy said

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on 7/22/2009 Beware! This is NOT, REPEAT, NOT a Zeppelin Bend. DO NOT FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS. Robert Segundo, I think you were having a bad day, mate, as you are close in the construction, but one wrong move and you end up with a completely different knot. As in this case. I like knots. It's a hobby of mine, and I use my favorites in my job. The Zeppelin Bend is my all time favourite bend for tying together two lengths of cordage. I've tied it thousands of times, and it does the job, every time. The zeppelin bend has running ends that exit the knot perpendicular to the standing parts, forming a cross shape (+), the vertical line imagine extended is the main rope. The completed knot (as can be clearly seen in the final frames of this video) has running ends coming out at the same knot exit point. Copying the knot made on this video, I ended up with what looked like a 'wierd' looking Euro D...

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"Now the the zeppelin bend starts into a series of a family of knots that uses the overhand bend. Now, a bend is a way of tying two ropes together and so you can actually loosen them up, so the cords don't bind. Because in the old days, cords were very, very rare, and it's something that you really wanted to keep. So what we're going to do here is I have two ropes here to demonstrate my zeppelin bend. What I'm going to is I'm going to take these two ropes. And in my hand, do it like this, I'm going to create a loop with both of them. Now- oh, I'm sorry. Let's just do it like this. Let's create a bend like this. And we'll just start with one. And what we're going to do is we're going to wrap it around both and create just a single overhand knot such as this. As you can see here, just in the red line, just a simple overhand knot. Now, what we're going to do is, we're going to take the standing end of my blue rope and pull it over. What we're going to do is we're going to wrap this around like this and create a overhand bend as it loops through both of them again. As you can see, both of them have looped through each other, to create two overhand bends in separate knots. So what we're going to do is we're just going to pull these together, we'll tighten them up, pulling both sides together. Might be simpler if I start with my working end, my standing end, working end, standing end. And there we go. Now the best way to show this knot is to make sure that all the knots come out in a ninety degree. And there you go; you can see this is a nice zeppelin bend. And easy to pull out of your rope."

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