the retucking of the tail that you show is different, it is not of the same type as the one shown by James, and does not make the loop TIB.
This "locked" double Tresse utilizes the same Scott s simple lock (0). Moreover, I always search for ways to make the nipping turn to encircle three, at least, rope diameters and become a little rounder and wider, so the first curve of the Standing part becomes a little smoother and wider, too.
Yes, it is not TIB any more - but I was not aware off the JP s TIB modification when I suggested it .
Anyway, I do not believe it is excessively complex at all - in fact, it is the non-locked, the original version that is excessively complex for what it delivers - i.e., a secure bowline with a sophisticated nipping structure but with a naive bight component structure ! If one ties the Tresse bowline, with its complex nipping structure, it would be a pity to not secure it further with this very simple "lock", that provides it an equivalently bight component structure. It is true that the seek of "
balance" between the two basic components of the bowline, the requirement of a double nipping structure PLUS a double bight component is a subtle thing... I believe that
the great success of the retraced fig.8 knot as an eye-knot was due to this material and psychological security it offers - by the double nipping turn AND the double bight component - to the rescue worker and the climber, but few people had realized this.
0. In its "modified" version, where the U-turn around the nipping turn s rim is a turn around
two rope diameters, just as here ( see the third and fourth pictures ) - not a turn around one rope diameter as in the original "black" Scott s cow.
1.
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