{"id":3883,"date":"2008-09-14T07:57:52","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T11:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=3883"},"modified":"2008-09-14T07:57:52","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T11:57:52","slug":"bic-for-better-banjo-bowlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/14\/bic-for-better-banjo-bowlines\/","title":{"rendered":"bic for better banjo bowlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquilausa.com\/\">Nylgut<\/a> strings, you&#8217;ll likely be tying a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeppmusic.com\/bowline.htm\">bowline<\/a>s. My first attempts at this were very poor.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found that if you slip a pen (preferably one with an integrated cap and clip, like a Bic) through the main loop of the knot, you can get some consistency in your knots &#8211; no more random clutter around your tailpiece. The pen clip can be slipped over the loop so that the string supports the pen so you can have both hands free.<\/p>\n<p>(Incidentally, <a href=\"http:\/\/menziesinstruments.com\/catalog\/4\/strings\">Jeff Menzies<\/a> sells Aquila Nylgut strings &#8211; he&#8217;s the only dealer in Canada.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you use Nylgut strings, you&#8217;ll likely be tying a lot of bowlines. My first attempts at this were very poor. I&#8217;ve found that if you slip a pen (preferably one with an integrated cap and clip, like a Bic) through the main loop of the knot, you can get some consistency in your knots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[2902,1377],"class_list":["post-3883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banjo","tag-banjo","tag-knot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-10D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3884,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions\/3884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}