What Knot is This?

[svaletheia]

Thanks for letting me know! I thought I fixed it -- I could see them so I didn't know others couldn't.

Try refreshing this post now (it took a refresh to get the images). I pulled this up on another computer and they show up there ... but here are direct links if it still does not work:

http://gallery.studiodc.org/d/16827-2/IMG_0754_sm.jpg
http://gallery.studiodc.org/d/16830-2/IMG_0756_sm.jpg

I'm still curious as to what this might be, useless or not.

By the way, Brion, I ordered your splicing wand to try some Sta-Set X spliced for my halyards. I'm quite excited - none of the riggers in my area will touch the stuff for splicing so if I can get decent at it I might be able to make a buck or two on the side. In that event your gear and book will easily have paid for itself - over and above the awesome information that I learned for my own boat. Thanks for including that miraculous splice.

[Ian McColgin]

I got a "security violation" instead of a picture when I clicked the link.

[svaletheia]

Blast. Ok, try it now. My sincere apologies... geez. Its been working for me 100% of the time (since literally 5 min after the original post). No idea why its so hard getting my photo hosting site to respect links offsite. I think I've finally made it work now.

I'm really sorry about the image problems...

[Ian McColgin]

Ahh, good pic. It's just a thumbknot (overhand knot) with the standing part run through. I don't know how secure but I've made that mistake and it jammed down to something that could only be cut, not untied.

There's a reason why some knots have names and other tied thinggies have merely deprecations.

G'luck

[svaletheia]

Thanks! Good to know I should be on the lookout for NOT tying this beastie, ever.