Can anyone point me torward(s) more info on Dan Lehman's Locktight loop(s) ?
Hmmm, you'd think that someONE might be well placed
to do just that!
Verbally, hold your line in one hand, with sufficient tail to form
the eye, and with the line running out along/atop one's index
finger, turn the SPart and wrap back over itself & finger 1-3 times,
and make a final wrap over & directly around the line (so, it
turns between line & finger, here) : this is the basis of the
knot, and the tail, after forming the eye, returns to replace
one's finger, collaring the SPart at the far side (the ol' "out
of the hole, around the tree, back into the hole" passage
of the
bowline).
The design goal was to get a tie-in eyeknot for rockclimbers
(et al.) that would be secure-when-slack and yet easily loosened.
The variation arose (IIRC) to better accommodate stiff rope?
There are some subtleties that might be tweaked for getting
greater strength, I think, as some cases one can see a LOT
of compression where the SPart turns around the tail and
one eye leg, which IMO suggests a weaker point than need
exist; perhaps the careful positioning of the tail so that IT is
what takes the SPart's hard turn(?!). The great slack-security
comes from the
blood knot / grapevine-like overwraps;
the ease of untying comes from the
bowlinesque *back door*.
The images done for & presented by Dan Britton are perhaps
yet available --saw them a couple months ago-- at this site
www.pssurvival.com/PS/Knots/Knot_Knowledge_Photo_Illustrations_2004.pdf [Locktight I & II, Lehman8, Single Bwl in bight, Fig.8[eyeknot, labeled]]
(my filed notes about this file:
[ A repeating & slow-loading PDF with some of MY knots as presented to Dan Britton ca. 2001 ]
)
"repeating" meaning that the entire set gets replicated!?
With some time, I might photo & post images here, for ease & clarity.
--dl*
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