[Polybius]

Old saying: If you can't tie a knot, tie a lot. 'Course, I don't know if we want our surgeons taking that to heart.

That's why you go down to the butcher shop and ask for a pork roast with the skin still on it. Then you practice, practice, practice.

Then you eat your homework. :-)

I agree with Capriole. This tale about "not being able to tie knots" doesn't pass the smell test.

[LibWhacker]

I know, it's crazy. First they say that training has been cut from 30,000 to 8,000 hours, then they trivialize it by making a big thing out of knots! I mean, come on . . . You can teach a motivated person to tie a dozen knots proficiently in an hour or two. That's not the problem. What else are they not learning?

[B4Ranch]

"Then you eat your homework. :-)"

Did you use Chromic Gut, Vicryl, or Dexon. Prolene and Nylon ruin the texture of that good pork skin and it sure do anything for jerky.