A simple and proven method of bending ropes applied successfully to the Bowline.
Really? Do you have any proof of "proven"?!
Frankly, I don't follow Ashley's assertion about the
knot drawing up all so well : it would do that job
much better were there not the between-bight-leg
parts of the bight-hitching line (which is how most
seizings work)! Especially the finish Ashley shows
is pretty lame; a
clove hitch with the tail then
tucked between bight legs would be better --of
course,
he sh/could use the
constrictor.
I think that you have here come up with a knot so
ugly that the Scott-lock'd bowline looks good & neat!
But you are a hair away from a winning idea, IMO:
just wrap the tail around both eye legs --no in-betweens--
and then tuck it out through the
turNip. This,
at least, is the latest thing I've played around with,
and I think it looks good. (Good if X. can put the
test with his slicker/newer kernmantle as a check.)
I find it easier to tie by first *reaching* and then
*wrapping back* to the nub for a simple, single
tuck --in contrast to *wrapping away* and then
feeding the line back beneath those wraps 'a la
blood knot / whipping. And I've fiddled with going
left or right in the wraps; one direction might make
the final tuck come all so naturally.
For a shorter wrapping and maybe securer finish,
albeit less quickly done --requires further tucking--,
take the tail from its tuck through the
turNipback out through the wrap(s) --one might use fewer
if this additional securing it to be done. This finish,
in briefest form, is just tying an
overhand knotthrough the nub; add a wrap and it becomes *doubled*
in the form of the
fisherman's/anchor bend.
(Of course, a possible danger of finishing with the tail
on the eye side is that Agent_Smith will make a darn
Yoyo wrap & finish with
that --as is his wont!
]
I like that one can wrap and then haul on the tail
to tighten --not needing careful, in-the-making tightening
or much "working"; just the simple, final setting.
Anyway, the binding of the eye legs together will put
some bit of *closure* on the
turNip to preclude
the usual loosening, and that's good. The SPart can
feed through the collar, but it won't get sympathetic,
collaborating /assisting loosening from the eye.
--dl*
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