... My story begins in the late 90's.
// ... there had to be an adjustable loop knot available ... I borrowed every book ...
This sounds much like me, who in a time of much lesser
knots knowledge (prior any real attention, even), had sought
just the same sort of thing, w/o luck. IIRC, it might've been
some similar working of the
overhand knot as Sweeney points
to in Ashley --it was for an activity never done (of tying off
upperclassmen dorm doorknobs on opposite sides ...).
And otherwise, in looking back to where what I've come to
call "the
Quick8 eyeknot" was first captured in ink by me,
I find far earlier reaches into this structure though always
with some collared finish of the tail (bowlinesque & other),
which to my mind show that I had not then realized that
the
fig.8 main body would nip the tail adequately (in an
evenly loaded eye)! These efforts came in the '80s and maybe
also later (in ignorance of earlier fiddling, I suppose, alas).
More recently, I had the
quick8 tested with the simple extension
of tucking the tail back through the main nip of the
fig.8--i.e., between the eye legs at their entry-- in 5/16" 12-strand
HMPE rope; this held to rupture, and IMO didn't show hard pulling
to this final tuck (i.e., perhaps that tuck was unneeded here).
It was not as strong as any of the other eye knots (4?) tested
by me, IIRC. Cf.
http://igkt.net/sm/index.php?topic=3810.msg22474#msg22474 [presentation of
Lehman8 & Quick8, and tested Dyneema bits]
Is there a good site/image(s) you can point to that will
show kite structures such as you're discussing?
Cheers,
--dl*
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