Does anyone know what knot this is?

[HandofCod]

So I was mucking around with some paracord today practicing some standard knots and stumbled on a completely new knot that I have never seen before. Does anyone know what the name of this knot is? I don't think I'm the first person to make this up. Looks like it would be good to fasten an object when a standard girth hitch is too slippery.

This would probably work well on an axe or something with weight. Constant tension is needed to keep this knot tight, much like a prusik. It's also very easy to undo which would be handy because really heavy loads tend to lock up knots and make it difficult to undo.

Start with this simple shape somewhere along your line.


Bending the loops over and run your tag ends through one loop each.


The run both tag ends back through the remaining loop and tighten.

 

[abarnhart]

Looks just like a modified prusik to me. Don't recall a different name for it. I'll check Ashley's when I get home.

 

[Watchful]

Looks like a cats paw knot.

 

[abarnhart]

Also similar to the "Kellogg Hitch"... Ashley 1697

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[VictGerbSogCamill]

Haven't seen it before but it looks quite useful. Thanks for mucking around.

 

[coote]

Looks very neat, but I've never noticed anything like it before.

Another leading discovery from the southern hemisphere. Go team !! You probably have naming rights here. The 'HandOfCod hitch'.

Where's Doc? He might know.

 

[Watchful]

It's a cat's paw hitch.

 

[VaughnT]

Reminds me of a Lark's Head that's been doubled.

 

[HandofCod]

It's a cat's paw hitch.

Can't say I agree on that one. I looked up how you tie a cats paw and it's completely different to the process above.

 

[Watchful]

No, that's a cat's paw. What you likely saw was the traditional cat's paw knot, with all the extra loops put in there. What I've pictured is the basic cat's paw hitch, not the knot. It goes by many names: the lark's head is similar.

 

[DOC-CANADA]

Looks very neat, but I've never noticed anything like it before.

Another leading discovery from the southern hemisphere. Go team !! You probably have naming rights here. The 'HandOfCod hitch'.

Where's Doc? He might know.

Nope, new one on me.

Doc

 

[HandofCod]

I shall call it HoC's Triple Hitch!

 

[James0723]

You can call it what you may, but with all due respect sir it's still a cat's paw as Watchful has pointed out.

 

[coote]

It is similar to a cat's paw, and would possibly do a similar job to a cat's paw, but to me it doesn't look exactly like the classical cat's paw I'm used to.

 

[DOC-CANADA]

I had a quick scan through Ashley's Book of Knots and the Encyclopedia of Knots and Fancy Rope Work by Graumont & Hensel and I saw a couple of similar knots but nothing exactly the same.

Doc

 

[Noddy]

It's elegant and looks like it will undo OK.

My Ashley is currently in a box under a lot of other boxes - so I can't join in with the checking

 

[HandofCod]

You can call it what you may, but with all due respect sir it's still a cat's paw as Watchful has pointed out.

A cats paw has two loops over the object. The knot above has four...

 

[Watchful]

Yeah, because you doubled it.

 

[HandofCod]

Yeah, because you doubled it.

Nope. I just spent the last couple of minutes trying doubled up cats paws and they aren't aren't anything like this knot. They are also much harder to untie. They do however look very similar so I can see where you are coming from but once you actually try both knots you'll see that they are knot the same (sorry just couldn't resist).

The above is essentially three larks head knots in combination, nothing special really but handy.

 

[Stormdrane]

You might submit it for the knowledgeable knot tying folks on the IGKT.net(International Guild of Knot Tyers) or KHWW.net(Knot Heads World Wide) forums to have a gander and see if they recognize it.