Addendum on the stopper knot of names. The Ashley Stopper (?) is aka the blood-knot and can be very usefully tied with several more turns. I generally use thee or four. I believe the name was...
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Addendum on the stopper knot of names. The Ashley Stopper (?) is aka the blood-knot and can be very usefully tied with several more turns. I generally use thee or four. I believe the name was...
If we're making recommendations for references, I would suggest taking a look a the Ashley Book of Knots by Clifford Ashley. The only edition I've seen is from Doubleday (originally Doubleday-Doren)...
Without a doubt, the constrictor since it appears not to be heading up the lists at all. Then trucker, prussic, slippery hitch, bow-line, blood-knot of various sizes, double fisherman bend, figure-8...