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I like this loop but don't have a camera - what's it called?

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Lasher:
I like this loop and the way it looks when tightened. It's a Clove Hitch in a loop or something. I don't know what it's called. it's like, take a loop in your line, take the free end and put a clove hitch in the loop. I made this picture. Try it, I think it looks strong.

roo:

--- Quote from: Lasher on April 13, 2012, 05:21:46 AM ---I like this loop and the way it looks when tightened. It's a Clove Hitch in a loop or something. I don't know what it's called. it's like, take a loop in your line, take the free end and put a clove hitch in the loop. I made this picture. Try it, I think it looks strong.

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Back when I was messing around with a similar loop, I avoided the Clove Hitch because I assumed that the Clove Hitch would lead to jamming, and I stuck to the Lark's Head/Cow Hitch structure.  But this sister loop based on the clove doesn't seem to jam, and seems to have virtually identical properties to the aforementioned Lark's Loop.  You could alter those diagrams to help describe your loop.

Security is pretty good, but not quite in the high-end range.  Not bad at all. 

Dan_Lehman:
It is in a family of such eye knots that I call "anti-bowlines",
which I see as a subset of *bowlines* in complement to
another sense of "bowline" --meaning that the tail's
return through the nipping loop is as for the common
bowline:  entering the turn from the side that the
SPart's on.   Yes, that was confusing, but the simple
determinant for my discrimination is the side that
the tail enters the loop.  I regard "bowline" as these
eye knots that have a central nipping loop to secure
things, and then --with an obvious lack of terms--
see another sense for "bowline" to be that subset
with the tail one way, in contrast to "anti-bowlines"
where the tail goes the opposite direction.

The anti-bowlines will usually have more trouble
holding the nipping loop qua "loop" vs opening
into a helix.

I also like the simple like knot (to this one) in which
the tail is just wrapped around one more time to
the initial turn, putting 3 diameters for the loop
to surround --a good approximation of roundness--
and giving the tail a bit more advantage at binding
secure the knot.

And I agree that this cloved anti-bowline looks good,
too.


--dl*
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Lasher:
Does this have an "official" name? If not, I would like to call it the astroknot!

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