Firstly, to the cited HowNot2 video on many knots,
one thing coming to mind, as Ryan asserted that
my & Wright&Magowan's dressing of the Butterfly
knot "doesn't matter" is that (1) the testing done
on this has been less than rigorous, and esp. (2)
their testing has used just some few ropes (of a type);
beyond this is that implicitly "matter" is meant for
knot strength per their testing, but there are other
aspects of a knot that matter more than this sort
of it-should-never-get-CLOSE-to force in strength.
AND, if I read/heard it correctly, he asserted that
the Butterfly always unties/pulls-through and NOT
breaking, loaded qua end-2-end joint; but the Czech
folks, who did MANY samples (in 10mm low-elongation
rope), I think had only breakage, NOT slippage!?
There may be a reason why Ashley tried to number the knots... :-).
He didn't : he #'d IMAGES, of which there are 3,858
--counting one *invisible* one ("... got lost"). (#3854
is last, but to this come a trio with "1/2" suffixes and
in later editions the infamous "1425a".) Many of these
images are not of knots; many knots have multiple
images & hence associated #s (take a gander in the
Index for, say, "Clove Hitch" and you'll find many pages
cited, many of which have images; there are also some
few pages missed in this list with images.
(I made an image#-by-image# review & counting of
ABoK, tired of the decades of mindless claims of
"Over/nearly 3,800, 3,900, 4,000 knots/nudos/..."
This supposed hoped-to-be international authority
on knotting shouldn't be so woefully mistaken of
the knot work it claims as its "bible" !)
Scott will be pleased to know that his knot is referred to
as 'Bowline with Safier Tuck' in this paper:
International Journal of Mountaineering and Climbing, 2021, 4(2), pp. 43-59, Fig. 14.
Thanks for noting this paper!Scott might be just a "pleased" with that moniker
as am I with
"Dble BWL with Lehman Tuck" for what
is I think everywhere (of few "where"s) otherwise
named
"End-Bound Dbl.BWL (EBDB)"!?? Why does Rob
not use the given names. --noting that immediately
after showing/re-naming my
"Dbl BWL..." he gives
the very un-End-Bound item but with yet a different
name :
"Dble.knotted or Round-turn BWL" ?!?
Egadz.
(That said, "end-bound" I must admit is a quite general
descriptor --equally apt for Scott's (with end binding) Lock.
"Tail-wrapped" comes to mind, despite "EBTWB" is quite
the mouthful to pronounce (at least for one English speaker).
Frankly, knot-naming is just a tough task. In the knowledge
of most users there are some few knots that are referred to
--maybe just a few, a handful, a dozen or two--; getting
different-enough names for them is not too tough. But
trying to deal with the myriad variations & other knots ...,
is not at all easy; there can be significant effects of dressing,
and ... ! <sigh>
Btw, I note that Rob presents a supposed "BWL capsizing".
IMO, this transformation which comes by snagging the
Tail for brief tail-loading and capsizing thus is hardly
a probable behavior/situation; moreover, in some
cases were it to occur, upon release of the snagged
Tail & capsized knot one has one of the starting
states for a quick-tie BWL and ... the capsizing
is reversed, BackToBWL it goes!
The more likely --and seen in actual-factual reality,
in commercial trawler thick dock lines-- capsizing
is that of the turNip "going helical" enough
to put most of the BWL knotting into the Tail,
forming a Pile Hitch of it around the S.Part
--"Pile H. Noose". (My sense of what helps
this to occur is highly frictive cordage, and
perhaps some occasional, tide-flow shifting
of the eye's angle to the pile such that one
leg of the knot gets more, the other less, force!?)
NB : I SEE THAT THE ARTICLE HAS CONFUSED/MIS-PLACED
CAPTIONS & IMAGES ::
FIG. 3 & 4 >> TEXTS << BELONG WITH
FIG.5 & 6 >>images<<;
... and vice versa.
--dl*
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