We are so used to seeing a tight nipping turn from the standing part
promoted here as prerequisite for a loop it was interesting to me that
this knot does not seem to need one.
The knot is PET and TIB, however I don't think many (including me) will want
to tie a knot with an open helix instead of a turNip, even if it does appear to work.
It was interesting to me though, so I thought I would share it.
Cheers,
mobius
As X. notes, you are following where others have gone,
and as for having an "open helix" (which might be seen
by that adjective to acknowledge that the
turNip also
is a helix --which even in the venerable
bowline sometimes
somehow gets well open, nearly straightened!),
YMMV per material & circumstance.
But I've dropped my thoughts that the open helix leads
to a nice gradual curvature and greater strength, though
there might be something to that. It comes down to
relying too much, IMO, on knowing the behavior of the
particular cordage and then setting the knot
just right
for that --just anticipating its particular elongation, sliding
of material-over-material but yet being "fixed" as an eye,
to be impractical.
Still, there are many such knots that at least start with
the reentry of the just-formed-the-eye tail on that opposie
side of the foundation loop (to open more helically) that
are fine. And whereas this initial reentry done as for the
bowline makes an
overhand at that point --so, will
then be not-TIB--, going the opposite way leaves TIB
potential.
--dl*
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