The next time I'm there I'll make a point of trying to snap an exploded view.
My experience w/photography is recent & limited,
but do you intend to get radically retro and use one of
those ancient, flash-powder illuminators? !
> The first thing that struck me was that it seems to
> gobble up waaay too much rope. Good luck making
> an adjustment to loop size or excess once things are tied.
I agree. Could the same be said of the EBDB?
No; as Churchill is reported to have said, "That's the sort of nonsense
up with which I'll not put!" -- EBDB's one of mine, and uses no more
than is necessary: the "D" aspect is necessary to give sufficient grip/nip
on the "EB" "repeated finish" part (try a single Bwl with like finish IN
KERNMANTLE rope and you'll see that it's not adequate).
> Is there some quality to this loop knot that you find
> appealing, or is it just a matter of curiosity?
Purely an academic exercise. I haven't seen it before and I would be curious
as to what use or advantage it has over other loops, if any.
It stays tied -- that's why you've seen it for ages. (And perhaps the
"stays tied" aspect involves not only the purely physical security of
the knotted structure, but also some mystical power of precluding
any attempts to untie it, lest it never be repeated; or that it holds
magical powers not to be disturbed! -- the ghost of some old
employee will give you noogies at night and Fall-Factor-2 wedgies
with your bed sheets.)
Interesting post. I'll let the mystery sit for a while, to garner others'
thoughts; it IS solvable.
The funny thing is that, as I read the opening lines --and images were
yet unformed, slowly loading--, I thought that you were going to tell
of finding one of
my knots: ages ago (so long I can't recall,
but maybe a decade!?) I tied a Lehman8 in some rope used for clipping
a 'biner to a climber of a rotating wall (machine designed to keep turning
and presenting more "up" to a climber going nowhere despite making
all the right moves (which device I should add I have never seen used!)),
and just the other night I again noticed the eye knot in place. I've been
tempted to ask someone what knot it was, but in this case they might
just opine "it's a Fig.8 ..." w/o careful notice (as Fig.8s get tied in such
a variety of dressings). And elsewhere I recall finding some monstrosity,
worse than this case, for a similar attachment to a 'biner (I think in
this case it was for simple suspension when trying on a harness), with
perhaps the original knot having been further knotted (vs. adjusted)
so as to change its height.
So, fun exercise this, in forensic knotting.
Thanks,
--dl*
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