The STORY of HOME MADE -- HAND MADE ROPE

Rope Making Link Page
A.D. Long  manufactured "New Era Rope Machine"
and others like "The Royal Rope Machine"
and an small aluminum "Rope Craft"  Rope Machine

More details Click on the Royal Rope Machine
 The Royal Instruction Folder (4 page Booklet)
Thanks to John Flory Rope Maker of New Jersey

Page  1 of Royal Rope Machine Folder
Page  2 of Royal Rope Machine Folder
Page  3 of Royal Rope Machine Folder
Page  4 of Royal Rope Machine Folder

The  Pamplet that came with  the Royal Machine.
Long called his rope tool a "Threader"
Similar functioning rope tools are also commonly
called  "Spreader", "rope needle", and  "rope wrench."

Above   Royal Rope Machine, as offered  by   Wahoo on EBAY

The Royal Rope Machine
is  simplfied based New Era Machine by Arthur D. Long,
who originally patented the New Era in 1911
I believe that this to be a vary rare machine.
The base that is shown in the sketch on top appears
missing from  of  some of the surving Royal Rope  Machines.

Rope Making  NEW ERA  14 page Booklet Pat 1911
Instruction Folder:  8 pages of Instructions for New Era Rope Machine
Royal Rope Machine Folder (4 pages)
Sherwood Improved Hand Rope and Wire Cabling Machine (23 pages)

Rope Making "Wrenches"
Berg Rope 1908 Machine
Bucklin / Thomas 1901 Rope Machine
Hawkeye (New Era 1911)  Rope Machine
Meyer  1924 Rope Machine
Royal Rope Machine
Sherwood Rope Machine
Wonder Rope Machine
Styles of Rope Makers
Other Rope Making Links
Guild of Knot Tyers
John Roper, Rope Maker for  Renaissance ...
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