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16th October 07, 10:20 AM
#1
Ahoy mariners! My new kilt pin.
So I occasional cruise ebay for interesting pins. I saw and grabbed this one just because of my connection to the sea. It cost about $5 and is about 2" long. I would've prefer and Carrick bend or a bowline but I've been known to use a clove hitch from time to time.
The Grant.
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16th October 07, 10:39 AM
#2
Your boats adrift mate. That is not a knot. Not even a clove hitch. Pull on both ends of that and you have a straigt line. I know I'm nit picking your beautiful pin but my obsessive nature wins again. O'Neille
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come. --William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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16th October 07, 10:48 AM
#3
Grant, he's right, but I like it anyway.
Disclaimer - I have been tried and convicted as a "Kilt Snob" so please be aware any statement I make may be biased towards tradition and good taste. LOL
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16th October 07, 10:54 AM
#4
I may be a few years past my knot tieing Boy Scout years but, Grant.... I'd have to agree with O'Neille and Chef. I will say that it does look good though.
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16th October 07, 10:54 AM
#5
 Originally Posted by O'Neille
Your boats adrift mate. That is not a knot. Not even a clove hitch. Pull on both ends of that and you have a straigt line. I know I'm nit picking your beautiful pin but my obsessive nature wins again. O'Neille
You're correct . Then to a mariner it's a tragedy waiting to happen. But if you put the loops together and throw it over a piling you'd get a cow hitch.
Yours to the bitter end...
The Grant.
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16th October 07, 11:23 AM
#6
Regardless of whether or not the knot could be tied, it is a very nice looking pin. Why the change from the maple leaf?
"If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say this or that even, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 3
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16th October 07, 11:41 AM
#7
Nice pin,shame about the knot.
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16th October 07, 12:11 PM
#8
NICE pin! I gotta act on my notion of a Harken bullet block pin.
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16th October 07, 01:07 PM
#9
Originally Posted by McMurdo
Regardless of whether or not the knot could be tied, it is a very nice looking pin. Why the change from the maple leaf?
Actually the Maple Leaf is the only tartan I have 'cept for the shadow SWK. Gotta show a kilt pin on tartan!
The Grant.
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16th October 07, 01:11 PM
#10
Originally Posted by ccga3359
Actually the Maple Leaf is the only tartan I have 'cept for the shadow SWK. Gotta show a kilt pin on tartan!
Sorry I should have been more clear I meant the maple leaf kilt pin
"If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say this or that even, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 3
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