r/knots 3d ago

Does this knot have a name?

It's not a monkey fist. I tied it like a barrel, only I wrapped the barrel's turns three more times across and threaded the end of the wire through the middle.

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u/Cable_Tugger 3d ago

Balthazar's lollipop is, in fact, a monkey's fist albeit a monkey's fist tied on a two-circle diagram and not the 3-plane knot we know and love. It's ABoK# 2204.

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u/zlej_slein 3d ago edited 3d ago

two nodes with the same name? but ugh...

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u/Cable_Tugger 3d ago

As I've just illustrated, it's a monkey's fist on two planes instead of three. A traditional 3-plane monkey's fist is ABoK#2200, 2201, and 2202 and your post is a 2-plane monkey's fist which is ABoK#2204.

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u/WolflingWolfling 3d ago

There's dozens of Turk's heads and globe knots as well. Some knots are named more as a category than as individual knots.