Yes, this knot has been tried/tied; it’s pretty neat. (But there are sooooo many
eyeknots!) And, there are other logics to finding corresponding eyeknots
for bends, where one essentially doubles one half of the bend by bringing the
end from the eye back into the knot in a parallel way.
It also seems to have an advantage over the Zeppelin loop and double dragon in that the working end tends to lie inside the loop parallel to the leg, like in the bowline, rather than sticking out at a right angle.
Whoa, what??? The ends of the Carrick bend, and the end(no ‘s’) of the corresponding
eyeknot of issue also, stick out at roughly a 45-90deg angle, and away from the eye!?