Inside of a knot

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

Ever seen inside a knot? I accidentally discovered this while demolishing:

[The Brain]

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[Brian-Gaff]

I'm assuming you mean a knot in wood here? I like the other sort. Always fascinated me, but was useless at tying them. Now of course I cannot learn as I cannot see the many videos about this on the web. Why am I fascinated, well you can in fact make very pretty patterns with knots etc, and its just pleasing to see. Well it used to be. Brian

[Brian-Gaff]

What are all those backslashes and funny bits? Brian

[Martin]

When my son was in his teens, we rented a holiday house. The internal doors were all pine. My sin discovered that if he pushed hard on a knot, the knot pooped out. He left one door looking as if it had been machine gunned.

[Chris French]

In message , Brian-Gaff writes

ASCII art saying don't feed the trolls

[F]

ASCII art of a Troll and a request not to feed them.

[michael adams]

That's a dead knot. The branch died off but remained attached to the tree and subsequent rings on the trunk grew around it. Basically its no longer attached to the subsequent growth and so can be knocked out of the plank. And so is a source of structural weakness.

Had it been sawn off next to the trunk before it died off then there would have been a tight or live knot inside the trunk which would be revealed when the trunk was sawn. While its of a harder consistency it's part of the growth and unlike dead knots doesn't weaken the timber.

michael adams

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[Tough Guy no. 1265]

It's a wood knot in a piece of two by two. I was surprised that it looked just like another perfectly circular in cross-section piece of wood had been inserted into the hole.

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

It's a wood knot in a piece of two by two. I was surprised that it looked just like another perfectly circular in cross-section piece of wood had been inserted into the hole.

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

Your son sounds as naughty as I was at that age.

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

Your son sounds as naughty as I was at that age.

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

A link to the picture.

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

A link to the picture.

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

I see. I always thought knots were stronger, as they're bloody hard to saw through. Never thought of "dead knots".

So this is live?

And this is dead?

[Tim Lamb]

In message , Brian-Gaff writes

You can knot verbally:-)

Under over, over under gets you a reef knot.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I think that is a highly apt way to refer to your offspring...;-)

[Martin]

[Johnny B Good]

You betcha! :-)