Not quite directly relevant for what we were discussing, but apprently there is a "Luthier's knot"

But this guy thinks that's wrong (at 1:50 into the video). His preferred way is how I do it already...

Except I don't use an electric drill.

Hey! what wld be the fun of hijacking a thread if you didn't!

It's like interagency diving protocol wars...everyone else does it wrong and you will surely burst into flames of fire unless you do it this way.

I was a fret jockey through college and I was taught a little differently with a backwrap and a locking the free end under the wraps(works on nylon too, but there are other strategies like a full overhand knot and sort of a lock loop through the hole) -- like one thing I don't like is using cutters (and when ppl use diagonal vs flush cutters it can be real bad)...the boss always hated us leaving any nubbins (finger pokers). With the free end under the wraps, you just wiggle the free end and it breaks off flush, no tool needed

When I'm with dive students I generally break my advice down into 3 levels
1) community accepted standard practice (and even then I bring up in early deco theory...when it was caisson disease from bridge work, they got the deco procedure exactly backward of what is now accepted. it's an evolving thing)

2) opinion on best practices...and my rationale behind it (with the caveat others have different opinion)

3) mere personal preference (why I use these fins...this that and the other, but mainly b/c I've been using that type since I was 15 and/or it was on top of the gear pile this morning)

In the end...how the string goes on, if someone has a mindful reason or experience, then I can dig it...it ain't life support equipment
but still..there MUST be things to argue over coffee or whiskey & coffee

Guilty.
My only excuse is that I've been hanging out in a place where even the moderator is keen on what he calls 'tangents' from topics!

just remember..in the end it's because you are a fundamentally bad person...or something

I think one of my fundamental problems is that I'm an enthusiast.

A problem I think I may share with one or two others in these parts? LOL!

Locking tuners ae great, but just putting the string straight through like that I have had a thin string (on a guitar) break right at the tuner when I started to put tension on, so now I take the string round then through so there's either a half or whole turn already on the peg before it goes through the hole.