Hi All,
Happy New Year
Yes, thank you --and may it be so!
(but rumblings all over this world are worrying)
... this loop is well secure and easy to untie,
and the tail of this loop was nipped by the top collar with full force, make it little more secure.
Hmmmm, the severe curves in the S.Part worry me,
and it stands thus in sharp contrast to a somewhat
similar-looking
"locktight" eye knot --and one that
Alpineer also formed, naming it "...tresse...". Although
the knots I present here
http://igkt.net/sm/index.php?topic=4476.msg29741#msg29741show a pretty sharp U-turn for the S.Part, so too does the
blood knot which nevertheless seems to fare well
in nylon monofilament --and breaks, per Barnes, not at
those turns but in the center where S.Parts pass on either
side of the nipped tails (!).
(One of those
locktights has a broader collar for the sake
of stiff, low-elongation ropes (I think I was fiddling with some
well-used Bluewater II, which resists bending!).' I like to put
the tail so that IT is what the severe turn of the S.Part bites
into (as the tail lacks tension and so can deform under such
pressure, which I presume is beneficial to the SPart).
)
--dl*
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