Maybe your senses yearn for a true eyeknot manifestation of the knot?
Maybe, but I think that what confuses me most is the completely different - asymmetric- loading of the threads in the case of the Zeppelin loop, ...
What did I just say, that you quoted, for your reply?!
The highlighted phrase is exactly what you're missing
and gives you the discomfort vis-a-vis the bend.
Now, you take the most symmetric interlocked overhand bend ...
How is it any more symmetric than any of the others, several of which
I've presented photos of in the recently bumped thread on Interlocked
Overhands like #1452 ?! (It is less
interlocked.)
JCSampson, your diagram of Rosendahl's bend has the silhouette
that you should use for SmitHunter's -- and this accents the symmetry,
and makes for a neat comparison (w/careful attention to over/under)
of the two knots.
Roo, yes, I have diagrams ... ; but words should suffice at first:
- your two supposed different but actually equal (why don't others
see this?) tying methods begin with the formation of one Overhand
component (in the SPart); okay, do this, but ...
- at the point of completing the Overhand, do so with a
bight (i.e., form a Slip-knot), and then with this bight (which is destined
to become the eye),
- now
finish(!) tying the 2nd Overhand component
(that formed by the "end")
in reverse !
(In a sense, the SPart's and end's Overhands
share a tail
--consider one fused into the other-- , and the actual eyeknot's tail
is provided by the "twin" of the end-strand.)
So, Xarax, you'll still lack a perfect symmetry; but see the eye-side
as an equal whose material got
twinned for the sake of an eye.
This is a general method to making an eyeknot corresponding to a
bend (corresponding with like loading, but w/twin strands opposing single).
The idea came to me via a structure presented in Barne's book on
angling knots, in which there is a knot in which one essentially
ties a Blood Knot with a leader to the
two legs of a bight
of separate material for the eye; and, I thought, what if the leader's
end flowed right into one of those two eye-tails? --bingo!
--dl*
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