Nice to see some spreading of the good word/work!
And I'm glad he piped up. I wasn't aware of your bogus "history"
of the "EDK" name --egadz, with a propensity to such dangerous
leaps like that deduction, stay well back from cliff edges!
In regard to p.27's 3rd/lowest-shown end-2-end ARJ knot,
it c/should be named "offset 8-oh", the "8" in primary position
as that is the choking line's component, with the other line
making the ends-exit-altering
overhand --and seeing the
exit of tails on each side as possibly adding some resistance
to flying.
And this *knot* just led me to a funny knot *invention* ::
I'd tied this ARJ knot for some passing reason in a play
rope that had a new eye knot (derived qua corresponding
eye knot for the
sheet bend, with the bight (not loop)
half of that
asymmetric end-2-end knot taken as
the base (unlike the
bowline's taking the (nipping) loop
as its base), ...
and later beheld the play rope with as holding TWO eyeknots
--i.e., regarding the closed-ring-via-
offset 8-oh as not a ring
but an
eye; the apparent SPart --i.e., the end leading some
ways to my intended eye knot-- was to the
overhand.
It looks reasonably decent, secure-when-slack, and fairly
easily loosened after loading!? Well, I loaded the half-inch
double-braid dock line to maybe 300# or so, as a check.
Ha, and that was inadvertent knot *invention*. (Were one
to adopt the rigor of trying all possible loadings of each tangle
that some fiddled *new* knot provides, these things would
be found earlier; but so far, I've yet to be so tediously thorough.)
(Another just-now *new* discovery --though the tied knot has
been around w/me for years-- :: if one begins with the
inline
/directional fig.8 eye knot and then takes its eye around
the tail SPart back up and out through the turns at the main
SPart --i.e., that part that is always a SPart, on eye- or
through-loading--, one gets an
inline/dir. fig.9 !!
(Yes, the so-derived eye will
now point the opposite way.)
[correction in red (vice "not")]
--dl*
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