From a exchange of views with DDK about another bend, it became obvious to me that the "twisted falcely tied" Hunter s family of knots was not as extensively documented as it should. So, I felt I had to take my camera, a 600mg Brufen anti-inflammatory pill for the pains of my spinal cord, climb on the peak of a ladder so my camera can focus on the knots on the floor, and start shooting pictures...
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A falsely tied Hunter s bend (1) has one main difference from a properly tied Hnter s bend : Its standing parts are not crossed, twisted around each other, so the whole bend works more like a Zeppelin bend, than a genuine Hunter s bend, i.e. it is a kind of
rope made hinge : It is revolving around its tails. Of course, it is a very poor bend, while the Zeppelin bend is superb.
From the moment we make the standing parts of a falsely tied Hunter s bend twist around each other, embrace each other, we turn this bend into a more genuine Hunter s bend, because now the standing parts
are crossed. So, a twisted falsely tied Hunter s bend can be considered as a variation of a twisted Hunter s bend as well. With the correct un-tucking and re-tucking, we can transform the twisted falsely tied Hunter s bend into a twisted properly tied Hunter s bend, and finally into a Hunter s bend. In this thread, I follow the direct path, and I examine the bends that are generated by twisting the standing parts of a falsely tied Hunter s bend, and not the opposite path, that of un-tucking and re-tucking a twisted properly tied Hunter s bend and a Hunter s bend, to generate twisted falsely tied Hunter s bends.
As I have said elsewhere, the operation of twisting the standing parts of the falsely tied Hunter s bend, in particular, and of the Hunter s family of bends, in general, has a few twists of its own...Indeed, there are more bends there than some people would have thought, and they come in many variations. The Hunter bend, unlike the Zeppelin bend, has different "top" and bottom" sides, so the twist of the standing parts can be on the one or the other side. ( It can also be at both, but this belngs to another thread). I have specifically examined here the simplest variations, where the tails cross each other before they exit the knot s nub, that I call X variations ( X : crossed tails). These variations come in pairs of different knots, because each tail can pass under, and then over, the other tail before it exits the knot s nub - or the opposite. I call them variations A ( first under, then over) and B (first over, then under), respectably. So, there are two twisted falsely tied Hunter s bends, and two x two twisted falsely tied Hunter s X bend variations, that is, 6 different bends in total.
I start by presenting the twisted variations where the twist is on "top side", the bottom side staying as it was ( the standing parts remain parallel). Then I will continue with the "bottom side" twisted variations.
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http://igkt.net/sm/index.php?PHPSESSID=cccb55c76f162ec461f0ff528d1386a4&topic=1992.msg13968#msg13968