Hello! I’m fairly new to turks head knots…less than a year in…and I recently accidentally stumbled on a 10 part 3 bight sobre casa knot while working on a project. I didn’t realize it was a sobre casa knot until after a few hours of trying to figure out what I thought would be a quick pineapple interweave. I thought my confusion had something to do with the fact that I had an even number of parts…so I broke out the Intro to Turks heads book and learned that I had a sobre casa knot. I ended up re-tying the base 10 part 3 bight casa knot the standard way but I feel pretty defeated and have some questions about sobre casa knots. Is there a specific use case for why you’d tie a sobre casa knot instead of a standard one? What’s the reason to choose one over the other? When it comes to interweaves (pineapple and herringbone in particular), is there a method or approach for tying them into sobre casa knots? I tried all kinds of things like starting the interweave on the right instead of the left of the standing end, starting with overs instead of unders, starting deeper in the knot…even starting from the right side of the entire knot…I kept hitting dead ends and getting confused. If you think this is a worthwhile question, I’d love to get your thoughts / guidance. Thanks for all you do to teach this skill. I’m enjoying learning it tremendously.
Sounds like we are gonna need another book.
Hello! I’m fairly new to turks head knots…less than a year in…and I recently accidentally stumbled on a 10 part 3 bight sobre casa knot while working on a project. I didn’t realize it was a sobre casa knot until after a few hours of trying to figure out what I thought would be a quick pineapple interweave. I thought my confusion had something to do with the fact that I had an even number of parts…so I broke out the Intro to Turks heads book and learned that I had a sobre casa knot.
I ended up re-tying the base 10 part 3 bight casa knot the standard way but I feel pretty defeated and have some questions about sobre casa knots.
Is there a specific use case for why you’d tie a sobre casa knot instead of a standard one? What’s the reason to choose one over the other?
When it comes to interweaves (pineapple and herringbone in particular), is there a method or approach for tying them into sobre casa knots? I tried all kinds of things like starting the interweave on the right instead of the left of the standing end, starting with overs instead of unders, starting deeper in the knot…even starting from the right side of the entire knot…I kept hitting dead ends and getting confused.
If you think this is a worthwhile question, I’d love to get your thoughts / guidance.
Thanks for all you do to teach this skill. I’m enjoying learning it tremendously.
I can appreciate your skill, but I cannot see any of it in the dark line. Might as well be hockey tape.