String Splicing pictures/Hazen

[Ron Nossaman]

>Can't find a name for the knot used in splicing -- checked the Boy Scout 
>Handbook, too, and didn't see it.

Hold it! I got it wrong. Sorry about that. My rememberer didn't... then 
did. While I hate to give the "alwaysreplacethestring" folks this kind of 
ammunition, it's called a thief's knot. The idea was that it looked like a 
square knot, and someone going through your kit while you were gone would 
re-tie it with a standard square knot, telling you someone had been in 
there without realizing they had told you.

So there it is.

Ron N