Hello, JJ. Thanks for the question.
The Three-Quarter Figure-of-Eight loop is so called by Budworth in Ultimate Encyclopedia of Knots and Ropework.
... on p.186 --a citation that helps, for the knot is unknown
to the book's Index, sadly.
Other information is: devised by Robert Chisnall, relatiively new
(as of 1999? or 2009? -- the book's copyrights), ...
The book says, rather, "in the 1980s," a decade prior.
and is a loop that supposedly will not distort "when pulled in either direction".
Thank-you for the "supposedly" --I'm having trouble with
coming to this observation, myself, esp. in firm kernmantle,
which one might think was the prime target!
The knot should be tied using both ends of the rope, so it said!
Just back the eye out of the finished knot (or look at the last
tying photo and see this, mentally), and you'll see how to tie
it in the bight --NO ends (which, as you say, is what one wants).
It is a neat looking knot and seems to be a neat and cleaner alternative to some other loops
Here we disagree, sharply : it is a terrible knot that doesn't begin
to meet it's raison d'etre well. I cannot figure out how either of
Rob of Geoffrey found it otherwise --or you, for that matter!?
(Conceivably, the book got it wrong; I don't have time to check.)
In what material are you tying it?
And it's hardly as new as the book claims, but for perhaps the
(misguided, IMO) using it qua mid-line eyeknot and loading
either end. As,
Roo, it is Ashley's #1057, which he says "it tends to distort if the
pull is on opposite ends." Now, it could be that in SOME soft
flexible materials it can be dressed & set so that this distortion
is the starting shape, roughly, and no further distortion occurs;
I'm not finding that, though, and think it's a lousy knot as such.
--dl*
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