a TIB version such as was presented long ago in Knotting Matters and also here.
I do not know what are you talking about - WHICH TIB version, of WHiCH knot ? WHERE in
Knotting Matters ?
If you have seen this 2-wraps Timber hitch somewhere, you should better share this knowledge with us, and not just be cryptic, to make some impression ( to whom ? ).
Did you had to think about
a tree ?

Was nt a simple ring a thing that could cross your mind ?

I had said that, IFF I can tie a non-TIB knot, or a TIB knot, I would prefer the TIB knot, EVEN if I could not, or would not, tie it in-the bight - because most of the times I can, and I will, and so, with experience and repetition, I will happen to know this single, versatile knot better, tie it faster, dress it and inspect it more easily, like it more. We have discussed about this many times recently - and you
pretend to ignore the
ceteris paribus condition, that I always set.
So, present me a "better" secure bowline than the
Ampersand bowline, for example (*), which will do something better ( be more secure, more quickly tied and more easily inspected ), but the price we have to pay for this supposedly better quality is that it is NOT TIB.
Present me a 2-wrap hitch that will grip the pole tighter, and "lock" both its ends more securely, than the Locked Cow hitch EEL, for example, but the price we have to pay for this supposedly better quality of it is that it is not TIB. ( And,
please, do not show this ugly tangly of yours you dared to show some time ago, or repeat the same lesson about the mediocre
ossel hitch...)
I, too, have to repeat ( because repetition is the mother of learning...) : IFF the TIB knot can do everything that the non-TIB does, and because it can do something more ( that is, it can be tied in-the-bight, and perhaps more quickly than in-the-end ), we would prefer the TIB knot. Oh, my knotGod...
If you can not, and as long as you will not, I will continue to claim that your whining about the TIBness issue is just another "sour grapes"-like attitude...
(*) If you believe that the required just ONE ( =1) tuck more than the common bowline, makes the
Ampersand TIB bowline, or, for that matter, the
Scot s TIB bowline, "
complicated"(sic), as you say, you should better ride this wormhole more effectively, and travel
further into the past !