Sorry, Dan. I won't be using the multiple-strangle knot + sailor's whipping finish
too complicated and too many tools (2 x pliers, forceps).

That's funny misreading of what I took some time to explain:
that in fact neither forceps nor pliers (and just one of either)
were needed --substituting, respectively, some other twine
and just something hard (or just live without distributing
the tension forcibly; it might work its way there in time).
But most people have the tools I mentioned; fewer, a palm
and needle which are expressly for such a limited use.
There are many ways to skin this cat, but my main point
was to question the oft'-asserted superiority of palm-&-needle,
as though somehow other whippings were falling short.
(I mostly do not make two whippings.)
Attached is a photo of some other novel whippings
--with some kind of flimsy red flat stuff, more of green
baling twine (a few wraps of more substantial quantity
of the fibres), and for the heck of it the use of binding
plastic tape (!), all on a poly-Dac hawser. No application
for the Good Housekeeping seal of approval was harmed
in the process.

--dl*
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