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<\/p>\nI first ran across this charming knot as a bit of decorative graphics on the Contents page of “What Knot?” by Budworth and Hopkins.<\/p>\n
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The working and standing ends ran off the page so it was not obvious which was which.\u00a0 Unidentified on the page and appearing nowhere else in the book, it piqued my curiosity.\u00a0 It was an interesting looking bend and I spent some time playing with it.\u00a0 It appeared to be very secure, had no tendency to “tumble”, and unlike most secure bends, e.g. zeppelin, Hunter, Ashley, which bring the ends out the sides, this brought the working ends out in parallel alongside the standing ends.\u00a0 With symmetric standing ends it snugs up to a nice slender compact knot.\u00a0 This would be a good bend for passing through an eye.\u00a0 Eventually I discovered that this topology was called a Vice Versa with the top B-A pair (or bottom A-B pair) as the standing ends.\u00a0 I had already discovered that this caused the knot to cramp into a bow and lose its tidy cross-section.\u00a0 Wikipedia came through with the information that this knot with A-A for the standing ends was a Reever<\/a> Knot.\u00a0 In either version it is reportedly excellent for slippery cordage.\u00a0 The Reever version maintains the compact shape with a slight skew.\u00a0 A nameless version with B-B for the standing ends that applied force close to the center axis and resulted in a neater square shape was my sentimental favorite.\u00a0 I developed a good way to tie it.<\/p>\n Enter the heartless wind of science.\u00a0 I used some 30 lb test monofilament line and tied a bunch (technical term) of these.\u00a0 The Reever Knot locked up tightly and held all the way to the point where the line broke without any slipping.\u00a0 The Vice Versa slipped some and then broke at a similar load.\u00a0 The B-B version consistently slipped completely at a lower load.\u00a0 I used monofilament to discriminate.\u00a0 None of these are suitable for wet fishing line.\u00a0 Abstract:<\/p>\n Reever\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Great\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Now I have to practice tying this.)<\/p>\n Vice Versa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 OK, not as neat, nor as good for really slick line.<\/p>\n Anonymous B-B\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Back to the irrelevant tech pile for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I first ran across this charming knot as a bit of decorative graphics on the Contents page of “What Knot?” by Budworth and Hopkins. The working and standing ends ran off the page so it was not obvious which was which.\u00a0 Unidentified on the page and appearing nowhere else in the book, it piqued … Continue reading “Reever Knot”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[28,29],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knots","tag-reever","tag-vice-versa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}