Author Topic: The "Violin" bend, and ABoK#1422 "decorative" bend.  (Read 4244 times)

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The "Violin" bend, and ABoK#1422 "decorative" bend.
« on: June 25, 2012, 12:26:29 AM »
    It has been noticed by Roger E. Miles that the so-called " Violin" bend :

http://igkt.net/sm/index.php?topic=2694.msg17155#msg17155
 
a bend that is based on the drawings of knots presented at :

http://igkt.net/sm/index.php?topic=2694.msg17058#msg17058

is, in fact, nothing but the " reverse"  of  ABoK#1422 " decorative" bend !

( Of course, those two bends, when tightened, look and behave as two completely different knots- as it happens most of the times, when we load the tails of a bend,  instead of its standing ends !  )