But, because this bend turned out to be the most tightly jamming knot I know,(!), I renamed it "The Oyster", for obvious reasons...
After tying this and so getting to see it from other perspectives,
I came to realize that I'd seen something like this some time ago,
back when I was looking for improvements to the "EDK" (
offset
water knot ) for an abseil-ropes joint --and offset bend. Look at
this form either end, and you'll see a quite appealing structure
for being loaded by that end's two exiting parts (qua SParts),
where each of the orange/white ropes will lie on the inside &
also the outside of the other --neither can be pried out around
its opposite.
However, even my ARJ knot --where the tails exited in another
manner, at right angles to the offset body-- was not easy to untie.
And I came to realizing that symmetry is not a winning characteristic
for ARJ knots, as the joined materials are often *asymmetric*, of
different sizes & nature. I called my offset bend the
"Beehive"for this classical domed hive look.
--dl*
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