FERRETBOY 680 Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 anychance of some help from you more experianced net makers.i have made hundreds of purse nets ,thirty or so fox nets and a gate net but now i want to move onto bigger things.so i have decided to start small and make a 25 yrd long net with 100% bagging.i am going to use a 2 or 2 1/8inch mesh what do you guys reccomend.how many meshes deep and how many long for 50yrds would you also recomend. i have been told by people that they start the net of on a split ring and i like this idea but were can i get one from and is there anything else i could use which are easy to get hold of (pics please of what you use) also whats the best knot to start the net of with and do i tie the following hoopes like i do a purse net when tieing straight onto a ring then just slide them off when i need to.is there any good dvds worth getting about long net making and net making in general.thanks in advance :thumbs-up: good hunting rew Quote Link to post
OldTrapCollector 377 Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 anychance of some help from you more experianced net makers.i have made hundreds of purse nets ,thirty or so fox nets and a gate net but now i want to move onto bigger things.so i have decided to start small and make a 25 yrd long net with 100% bagging.i am going to use a 2 or 2 1/8inch mesh what do you guys reccomend.how many meshes deep and how many long for 50yrds would you also recomend. i have been told by people that they start the net of on a split ring and i like this idea but were can i get one from and is there anything else i could use which are easy to get hold of (pics please of what you use) also whats the best knot to start the net of with and do i tie the following hoopes like i do a purse net when tieing straight onto a ring then just slide them off when i need to.is there any good dvds worth getting about long net making and net making in general.thanks in advance :thumbs-up: good hunting rew Rew, I would use 15 meshes wide all the way from start to finish, in 2 1/4" mesh. I would also knit a line of heavier selvedge on top and bottom afterwards to make it more durable, before fitting the top and bottom lines. You could start the net off as normal on a ring and then cut it off (?) or start on a split ring and unthread it. I don't start a long net off on a ring at all but just knit a row and the cast off to row below (a bit like knitting a net one row wide) - you will have to experiment with how many rows to do as it will reduce by a third - but when you gather up all of the 'side meshes' you will find that you have a net already 3 rows deep by 15 meshes wide. Does that make sense? Then just keep on knitting! Once you have done a yard or two then put a loop of twine round it so you don't end up knitting at the end of your street whilst the end stays in your house!! I would make a 50 yard net 100 yards long preferably, but some will use 75 yards, it is up to you. OTC Quote Link to post
mole trapper 1,703 Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 Rew, i have never made a longnet, BUT, if i was then the book called Net making for sport by Howard Glynn would be my first port of call, very detailed, lots of photos, secondly i have not seen it but Mick Mansbridge made a dvd about net making etc which i am told is pretty good. :thumbs-up: Quote Link to post
FUBAR 0 Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 As for a split ring REW you dont need to use one I bend up a ring about 2 or 3 inches in diameter from an old wire clothes hanger like what you get from the dry cleaners. I use it because 15 stitches dont fit on a small ring well and I use a large needle that I made it saves having to refill so often Quote Link to post
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