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PatDucey:
The person who taught me how to tie would always remove the core from paracord, and tie it as a wide, flat line.  The finished knot would always lay-up very flat.  If that was the look he was interested in, he would use paracord.  I never saw him use paracord with the core still in it, but it can be used in that way.

bazz:

--- Quote ---The person who taught me how to tie would always remove the core from paracord, and tie it as a wide, flat line.  The finished knot would always lay-up very flat.
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Hi there Pat & everyone,

I have used 3mm nylon cord with the core removed for making Pineapple knots and the like for the very reason that the finished item has a very smooth surface, if you use the same cord with the core intact you get a very rough knot which needs a bit of fairing with a mallet; unless the cord is made up very soft to start with.
Barry.

KnotNow!:
How different we may be.  I have about 1000' of cord that is tubular but wants to be flat if you argue with it.  I is exactly what para cord would be if you pulled out the core strands.  I like "round cord" that is to say stuff that stays round no matter how hard I tighten it.  Seems to me we can trade cord untill we all have what we like and some of the other stuff too.  Just send me a private post and I'll put a little piece of this red, tubular, nylon in the mail and if you like it I'll send you enough for a project if we can trade something you can get easily.  I've tied so many projects with this that I am very bored with it and still there is the huge cone of it remaining.

Brian Grimley:
The comments about leaving the core in the paracord for a round cross-section or removing the core for a flatter cross-section reminds me of a statement by Bruce Grant (Encyclopedia of Rawhide and Leather Braiding).

In Bruce Grant's chapter on "Braided Knots", he says that doubling or tripling a Turk's Head to increase its size is a sailor's trick and practical because the cord is round.  However, he says, doubling or tripling is not practical using the flat leather thongs or rawhide strings since the bights will overlap. He says that the Turk's Head should be seen only as a foundation in leather or rawhide braiding.

Are the many beautiful types and designs for the "Pineapple Type Knots" basically a result of the material available to the braiders? That is, those knots arose to deal with the leather thongs' and rawhide strings' flat cross-section.

Today, the  beautiful designs that are published, or survive, may be a result of not only utility, but also of "The Natural Law of Selecting What Looks Good"?  :)

Just a thought - Brian.

KnotNow!:
Hi Brian,  "The Natural Law of Selecting What Looks Good"  Now there is a thought.  Valid too, I think.  I surely is true of colour choice.  When my eyes were young I used earth tones, brown, black, dark green, royal blue.  Now I am having such fun with all these "neon" colours.  So tastes may change over the years.  Flat braid and flat lace don't hold as much charm for me and I am even tying some "weedwhacker" (round.095" monofiliment) line.  Also some electrical wire.  Round and without texture or grain.  The craft stores have some dandy materials designed for sewing or some such hobby.  Though delicate and needing great care the finished knotted projects are unlike any of the traditional materials.  The stuff I am using is a metalized mylar filiment which has been machine braided to form cord.

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