| Jack Cross, BM2 USN (ret) |
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You'll see a deal of Jack's work on other pages (some is duplicated here) but he's sent me enough to warrant a separate page
for this and for future work. I'm afraid I re-created a monster: Jack had not done any knotting for quite a while until he ran
across my site and sent me some pictures of some old lanyards... looking at things got the juices flowing again and I hope that
we see a lot more of his very nice work in the future!
for this and for future work. I'm afraid I re-created a monster: Jack had not done any knotting for quite a while until he ran
across my site and sent me some pictures of some old lanyards... looking at things got the juices flowing again and I hope that
we see a lot more of his very nice work in the future!
| A piece of 12-line squareknot work done as an experiment... looks pretty good! |
| Piece of Spanish Coxcomb with 3x4 tripled turkshead finials |
| Two Bosun's Lanyards he recently made |
| Detail of the braid on the white lanyard 17-strand "flat" braid |
| Three knotboards that Jack made up: For a reunion dance another reunion board an earlier reunion board |
| Two Bosun's lanyards made of Belfast (Dreadnaught) cord back in the '50's when Jack was still a handsome young sailor. (Now, of course, he's a handsome older sailor...) |
| Detail of the "flat" 17 strand sennit and the 9x8 square turkshead at the breastplate... THAT took some time! |
| Top is a detail of the 17-strand "flat" sennit, bottom is a "french" sennit |
| Another (and larger) knotboard with a pic of the USS Manuel, Jack's destroyer. |
| A nice little article about Jack and his Purple Martin houses... |