Cross-Chest Box Tie
An unusual box tie/chest harness, it holds the wrist up with straps going over the shoulders instead of around the chest like you commonly see in TK variants.
For this tutorial, I used one 30′ (~9m) piece of Natural 6mm provided by my affiliate Twisted Monk.
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Prerequisites:
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1. Start with a single column cuff going around both wrists and then run the tail up to one shoulder
2. Go across the upper chest and the under the opposite arm
3. And to the back. Place your fingers through the cuff…
4. Grab the tail
5. And pull through
6. Run up to the other shoulder
7. Across the chest to the other armpit
8. …
9. And again through the cuff
10. …
11. …
You can also reverse the direction of the tail at this point if you like, it doesn’t matter, we will lock this off in a later step
12. Continue the tail around the upper arms…
13. …across the chest below the breasts and around the other arm
14. Put your fingers under all the shown cords on the opposite side
15. …
16. And pull the tail through
17. Reverse the tension
18. Add a second wrap around the chest, parallel to the one already there
Run your finger underneath the four strands to keep them flat and together, and to gauge that the tension is even
19. Bring around to the back again
20. And wrap it around the center line
21. Split the strands so that we can add a cinch to both arms
22. Reach through the larger hole from the front
23. Grab the tail and pull through
24. Reach through from behind, above the lower chest strap
25. Pull the tail through.
Remember your rope craft, and dress these lines to keep them flat and parallel
26. Then pull the tail more firmly to cinch the strap tighter
Keep your finger in place so you know how tight it is
27. Do the same thing on the other side
28. Wrap the two strand around the center column from opposite sides, bring them together and secure with a surgeon’s knot.
If you have rope left over you can wind it in a figure 8 pattern up the shoulder straps.
29. Completed from the back
any chance there is a video of this?
I need to redo this tutorial from the ground up, when I do, I will add a video as well. Can’t say at the moment exactly when that will be though. Time is a 0-sum game 🙁