LINKS Web Posted Rope Booklets :
5 Web Posted Booklets  on Rope Making

Book: (23 Page) Sherwood Improved Hand Rope and Wire Cabling Machine
Book: (14 page) Rope  Making  NEW ERA  Pat 1911
Book: (8 Page) Instruction Folder for New Era Rope Machine
Pamplet: 4 page of IDEAL- Berg Rope Machine
Royal Rope Machine Folder (4 pages)

Below: Web page for  reproduction 4 hook Meyer style Rope Machine  currently being produced, as well as a current  rope making  book:  I  bought  several copies.  www.makerope.com
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My Favorite working antique rope machine is the New Era

The 1915 sales pamphlet that came with the 1911 patent  New Era Rope Machines  that stated 50,000 New Era Machines were sold in the first 4 years of production.  They retailed at $5.00 each.  I find this interesting, for New Era was one of the vary best home Rope Maker Machines:  a good working New Era turns smoother and easier than any  butter churn that I have used.   Please Email me at RopeMaker@hotmail.com  I am interested if you know what the original prices of other rope machine models sold.   It would be interesting to research period farm magazine for that information.

Rope machines have followed a basic style for hundreds of years.   The basic shape is 3 hooks set linear or in a triangle that turn like a crank.   4 or more hooks can be used in this basic rope machine.
 

Sherwood RopeMachine  1913
N. E. Sherwood  Improved Hand Rope and Wire Cabling Machine
By 1917 this Machine was called the NES  WIZARD
My 5 hook NES "Sherwood" has Stamped in the casting
" NES MFG. CO, Detroit  Mich. NES WIZARD  PAT PENDING"
on the main casting, but also has a date stamped in the wood
handle grip.  "Pat 2-13-1917"