Blood knot. Simple as green grass. Don't make a federal case out of it. Forgive me if I am too blunt.
It's not that you're too blunt, but that you're missing the point:Â take a click on "blood knot"
with Google Images and see what comes up--how much of that makes sense? A old
complaint I have with angling knots presentations is that the results are almost always
presented WAY TOO VAGUELY as little jumbles of allegedly properly knotted line
--but one cannot
discern the final knotted structure. No, the tying steps must
be followed carefully (if right, i.e.), and then one must just have faith that your result
is what's intended--can't really do a side-by-side check, 'cause all the artist has given
you is a bunch of zigzag lines indicating tensioned coils or whatever.  *&@$*@&$%
For a nice final image, see Des Pawson's
The Handbook of Knots.
So, on-line (and why must Derek have an
on-line source? --the track record for
this knot isn't good) searching turns up a load of outcoil tying and many of these
presentations give no clue that some transformation of the structure will/should
occur; some outright imply the contrary!
Here is a site with a Budworth (flow-motion'd ?) INCOIL tying method presented:
alert: this is animated image; you must copy and remove spaces in URL>>>> www. noreast.com /knots/ knotspage4. cfm <<<
(so an on-line & in-book source, we may presume). Though the point made previously
was that the different methods should nevertheless yield the same result, which is a
sort of, we might say, "incoil"'d knot. This result is hard NOT to get in monofilament
line; but in more frictive stuff, one can set the knot in to result in an outcoil form for
at least some lesser tensions--likely with some but maybe slight transformation to
occur as tension increases. This transformation is indicated as partially occurring
even during tying--with the end more evenly
twisting WITH the SPart in its
outcoil reach, with a resulting incoil structure--in images taken from another "Geoff",
Geoff Wilson.
That so many sites out there, and i.p. those by Grog, Chisholm, & some supposed
fishing & scouting sites, have presented the venerable Blood knot as they do is
truly discouraging. The IGKT has a lot of work to do in part of its chartered goals.
I have added a correction to the Wikipedia page; it's a start.
--dl*
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