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Making a Turks Head Woggles is one of those skills associated with people who remember scouting
with shorts and squashy hats. In fact with a little patience it is really quite easy and even
the most cack-handed people can manage it, all you need is someone to show you how.
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- Time- 1 hour teaching per patrol, 10 minutes once trained
- Cost- Almost nothing
- Difficulty- 8/10
- Verdict- Useful trick
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- The easist way to follow these diagrams is with a meter of blue inner wire stripped out of a mains cable, mark one end with red tape and the other with green.
- While you are learning it will be easier to make the woggle around a staff or broom handle.
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- The easist way to follow these diagrams is with a meter of blue inner wire stripped out of a mains cable, mark one end with red tape and the other with green.
- While you are learning it will be easier to make the woggle around a staff or broom handle.
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The first stage is the most difficult and once you get it right the rest will follow. Study
the diagram carefully and tie a knot exactly the same around a broom handle.
Note: This isn't a clove hitch.
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Turn the broom handle around so that your are now looking at the back of the knot.
You should see something like this. Note: Markers A and B are now on opposite sides of the picture.
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Pull the loop on side B across and under loop A.
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You should now have something like this.
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Now pull the green end across, over loop A but under loop B.
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Tuck the green end in next to the red one, follow it round several times and you have
completed your basic woggle. Finish off by tucking in the loose ends.
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- Use a fluorescent necklace instead of string, for a glow in the dark woggle.
- Make up a meter plat using three strips of string in troop colours then use that to make a woggle.
- Use a leather boot lace.
- Turkshead woggles make ideal napkin rings for scouting events.
- Electrical wire is available in over 12 colours and makes stiffer woggles.
- Make special woggles for each summer camp and present them to each of the scouts.
- Make a woggle large enough to go around your head, and use it with an old tea-towel for that authentic turkish effect 8-)
- Use fish take air tube, with enough slack at the top to go into your mouth, and enough at the bottom to go into a can of coke hidden in your trouser pocket. This way you can sneak a drink during church parade without the DC noticing.
- For a tasty emergency snack use Liquorice bootlaces (PL Panthers 8th Gillingham)
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