Originally Posted by
nanok
this is one of the reasons i tend to gravitate away from hardware, in favour of (proper) knots: hardware that works had to usually be designed to work well with a narrow range of cordage. even if you had different sizes of hardware you could chose to buy, you're still limited depending on which hardware you bought. with good knots, the beauty is that once you got the line you want to use for the purpose, you also have the line that will work fine with the knots, as most knots scale nicely with the line, in other words, you get to just freely chose the line, any line you like (well, as long as it's not dyneema :P ). most good knots also allow a broader range of choices even than hardware, in the sense you can mix line sizes within some limits, limits which are broader than most hardware allows.
titanium is something special though, i get it. i think.
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