The Bull Clove hitch is a TIB noose - and, as many TIB fixed and adjustable eyeknots, it can be tied easily and quickly in-the-bight by “haltering” the Clove-hitch-made collar. So, in order to tie it in-the-bight, there is nothing one has to memorize and remember, other than that this TIB knot, too, like many others, can be tied by following the “haltering the collar” method. I say this because many knot users ( and, unfortunately, even some knot tyers…) when they watch a video like the one shown by Knutern (1), they just attempt to “cut and paste” in their mind the exact sequence of moves, without trying to understand what they see. Perhaps a series of still pictures can show the same thing in a more clear way.
Form a Clove hitch at the end of the bight. ( I show the Clove hitch in this uncommon “open” form, because in this form it can be handled easily and steadily by keeping its three crossing points between the fingers of one hand, without any danger to mingle and jumble up the two wraps. )
Form the twin-line eye. Now, what you see is an eye"knot", its eye and its collar - but the two ends of this eyeknot are still bypassing the collar. They have to pass through it, and that is what the method of “haltering the collar” is meant to do.
Halter the Clove-hitch-made collar : make the whole eye be “swallowed” all the way by one side ( any one of the two sides - the Clove hitch is symmetric in this ) of the “mouth” of the collar ( = of the two wraps of the Clove hitch ). Rearrange the segments, which may have been entangled during this move.
Rearrange the segments of the Clove hitch, so it takes its common “closed” form. Its two ends become parallel to each other, and tangent to the surface of the pole.
There are two ways some knot tyers with ego problems ( believe me, there are lots of them, I do not know why…), can “burry” a knot that they would had wished they had tied first and by themselves, but they did not :
Pretend it does not exist - and be silent about it as much as possible. Of course, not even mention the name given by its author ; instead, use the strangest way to hide it under the carpet. For example : " This ( willingly non-existing knot ), is to another knot X2, what a third knot X3 is to a fourth knot X4. " I had recently read this “brilliant” way of burying a knot, and I was impressed by its evil ingenuity.
Pretend that they had tied something “similar”, which, in fact, is exactly the same - and leave people to wonder where the difference is !
Now, to be fair, I do not know the real motives of Seaworthy Lass, who happens to be also the moderator of the site : http://www.cruisersforum.com/
and I do not wish to suppose that he, intentionally, wished to burry the Bull Clove hitch - because he correctly identifies the difference to the “Estar hitch”, and he presents it, with pictures, at :
However, he also claims that he had tied it before it was presented in this Forum, which is not what had happened.
He also makes some funny comments about it, as that :
" a similar hitch was put forward by a member called Xarax in the IGKT forum in January 2014 "(sic)
( notice the “similar” word… )
" If he had focussed on an end line, not a mid line hitch and selected which part to make the tail for this knot (there are two options and they are not the same) and worked out how to tie it and presented it to that forum “(sic)
( notice the “not the same” words…)
So, “his” knot ( which he calls “Estar-XX hitch”, to honour, supposedly, me as well as the author of the completely different Estar hitch, a re-tucked Buntline hitch ), is different from the hitch shown in this thread - because, contrary to what is shown in his pictures ( I copy them, in the attached pictures - I believe I have the copy-right to do this, because they are pictures of the knot I had tied…), in my pictures, shown in this thread, I had not shown the one end shorter than the other !
Why do I tell this now ? Because I had visited this low-quality “popular” web super-market of knots called " Animated knots…”
and I got veeery ANGRY again ! The ignorants and/or idiots who run it, present 337 knots ( ! ! ! )( the “Estar hitch” and the “Gnat hitch” “best-sellers”/“offers” included…), BUT NOT THE GLEIPNIR !
No wonder about the plagiarism of the so-called “Estar hitch” and/or stopper “variations”, of which the one is the re-tucked Buntline hitch ( something totally different than the Bull Clove hitch ) and the other the Bull Clove hitch ( something exactly the same, by definition ! :)).
So, for the record, I decided to not leave this pass without a comment.( Some people believe that they are so much less stupid than they really are ).
Read : http://igkt.net/sm/index.php?topic=5487.0
