* The constrictor is also referred to as a Miller’s Knot in that it was used to tie the tops of bags of flour. To start a splice, use it to stop off the unlaid strands of the rope so they won’t ravel further as you’re working the splice.Made with small-stuff it is especially effective, as the binding force is concentrated over a smaller area. The constrictor knot is appropriate for situations where secure temporary or semi-permanent binding is needed. To make a good temporary whipping at the cut end of a rope, or to start the West Country whipping. A constrictor knot prepared for tightening using two metal rods and marlinespike hitches.However, many times the constrictor knot I use to secure the bands to the pouch slips, as in the latex pulls underneath it. When it’s tied to a vertical spar, the crossing spar can rest on it while the lashing is being made. Ive recently started tying my own bandsets, and some of the time they turn out great.
To use interchangeably with a clove hitch, except once the constrictor is pulled tight, it is quite hard to untie.Like a clove hitch, the constrictor can be tied using the end of the rope (see figures 19 and 20) or by forming a twisted loop and slipping it over a spar (see figures 21, 22, and 23). The constrictor knot is important as temporary whipping and as permanent binding from which you need more than one in a row. The constructor is based on the clove hitch, except that it has an extra half-knot that provides an extra hold when the knot is pulled tight.
In the days when black powder was used for blasting in mining operations, this was the knot that was tied around the top of the bag containing the black powder to hold the fuse in securely hence, it’s other common name, the Bag Knot. Once you learn to tie and use the constrictor, you will wonder where it has been hiding in all those knot books and why it isn’t in wider use today.
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