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 Originally Posted by Poopadoop
Doesn't almost everyone use the knot in this video?
I use that knot, but I tie it in a more tedious way. That technique is familiar to me, but not worth the mental effort to re-train myself.
The trouble is that this is a doubly slipped square knot, but if you switch which loose end is forward and backward when you set up for the final pull to create and cinch the knot, then you have a doubly slipped granny knot. They look basically the same when you're done, but the granny knot is more prone to loosening.
Originally Posted by Poopadoop
In my childhood, Granny knots or square knots were only used by kids too uncoordinated to do it the easy way.
I'm not sure you and I are talking about the same thing. The level of coordination is exactly the same for both knots. The only difference is the symmetry of the 2 steps in making the knot.
The first step is the 1/2 hitch under the bow-knot. If that is NOT a mirror image of the bow-knot, then you have a granny knot. If it is a mirror image, then a square.
Originally Posted by Poopadoop
The same kids who were the last to get picked for your team in gym class.
Hey! That was me, you jerk.
Originally Posted by OngBonga
That's how I do mine, but mojo started going on about granny knots and square knots, so I figured I was making one of those knots, and wasn't sure which.
He tied a doubly slipped square knot. So I figure you are making "one of those knots."
Originally Posted by Poopadoop
He was probably one of those uncoordinated kids and just assumes everyone else does it that way too lol.
Your face is uncoordinated!
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