Thanks for the reply hikerdon

What I meant was that if you make a larks head knot you now have two lose ends of rope/wire that do not lend themselves well to another slip knot. Where does the other slip knot belong if you use two knots?

Here is a picture of a larks head I found on the Internet
http://www.everestvsu.co.uk/knots/lark3.htm


thanks again