hahaaa, yas crack me up,
. what's the opposite of patron saint? Patron devil? Nemesis? Beleaguerer? ... of knot tyers?
yeh i know!, in my mind i object, 'no don't do that!',
then, there are a few knots lying around here that could be untied for the cord to be reused.
and maybe a more specific title 'disentangler of knots' would be most welcome ...
for when we've all had a go at the half-hitches-to-overhand-knots trick, told in the preface of Ashley's book 😊
(and illustrated in Geoffrey Budworth's the Knot book)