My splicing attempts

[old snake]

You know you've got it bad when your splicing first thing on a sunday:001_tongue:.

Doing black ropes is a nightmare int it?

[John Shutler]

You know you've got it bad when your splicing first thing on a sunday:001_tongue:.

Doing black ropes is a nightmare int it?

 

haha

 

yeah black is a nightmare, i didnt bother marking it out, just measured when i needed to for the cover

[stuartc44]

I wasn't up 'first thing', but trying to improve my splicing.

 

I think holding the wire and thimble in a vice will help to get it all tighter and neater at the throat.

[Jamie]

I need to learn to do wire, i'm after myself a home made pole strop

 

Jamie

[High Scale]

Very nice stuartc44!!

[RobRainford]

well surely wire cores are 3 strand wire?

 

they would be awkward because of the lack of flexibility surely

 

 

ive done 2 double braid splices today, pics will be up shortly im on the laptop and no iphone connection to take pics off

 

i struggled with doing a poison ivy splice though, got through most of it but pushing the core tail back through i struggled to get it past the core exit to push it further, theres not as much room as other double braids.

[stuartc44]

Thanks High Scale, I still need to get everything tighter at the throat and a little neater but definitely improving.

 

It is all made to look so easy on this site:- Rigging 101~ Liverpool wire rope splice - a set on Flickr

 

I also thought about making a wire core flip line. Most marine places can crimp an aluminum ferule on to make the eye that they say is as strong as the wire. This may well be but a splice is more easily inspected and without the ferule joint being proved to me I would prefer a hand splice. I have found that removing the core from some xtc plus and threading the wire back in, it dosen't need much to hold every thing in place. Glue seems to hold fine and also like the idea of a crimp, I think some of the ones used on LV jointing look about the right size but not tried yet.

 

If you do give it a try definitely wear at least one glove, (I learnt this early on), and found a screwdriver ground to a flattened point works ok for this 6mm 7x7 wire.

[RobRainford]

Here's the two I did before. I will be buying a sailmakers palm and some twine for lock stitching these. Is it a good idea to put some sort of number on these if they are used for work? I won't be using them for climbing

[RobRainford]

Helps if I add images

[Peter]

Nice, although the taper looks very abrupt. You can get away with it in a rope with a loose cover, but something like blaze or poison ivy needs careful setting up to be able to finish the splice.