  We offer a new construction of Lagrangian submanifolds for the Gopakumar-Vafa
conjecture relating the Chern-Simons theory on the 3-sphere and the
Gromov-Witten theory on the resolved conifold. Given a knot in the 3-sphere its
conormal bundle is perturbed to disconnect it from the zero section and then
pulled through the conifold transition. The construction produces totally real
submanifolds of the resolved conifold that are Lagrangian in a perturbed
symplectic structure and correspond to knots in a natural and explicit way. We
prove that both the resolved conifold and the knot Lagrangians in it have
bounded geometry, and that the moduli spaces of holomorphic curves ending on
the Lagrangians are compact in the Gromov topology.
