My splicing attempts

[CraigD]

nice work bro, the new labels look good!

[Ewan Murray]

Done my first(succesful) splice today thanks to OneLab for the help.

Its only sailing rope figured i would start with the easy stuff for practice.

[onelab]

The 'My Splicing Attempts' has slipped way down to the second page!

 

Here's a few since last time.

[atree]

Tidy Whipping

[CraigD]

Nice whipping! I always seem to get lazy and not put it right up near the throat of the splice! Nice work

[onelab]

Cheers Atree and CraigD

 

I am a bit particular about my splices and whipping.

[BenR]

Good effort Ewan! I need to get some splicing in!

[onelab]

Few more offerings from a wet weekend .

[BenR]

Tasty looking splices

 

What is the deal with performing a class 1 double braid splice on the beeline. Seems fairly well accepted as strong enough on the AP. Has anyone done any break tests on the beeline with a class 1?

[slimjimvw]

Sorry mods if i've done the wrong thing resurrecting this thread. Let me know if i have and i'll start another.

 

Had a bash at splicing myself this week for the first time , went well even though it is was a steep learning curve and i now only wash up using Fairy.

 

My first splice was with a old piece of XTC magma ice , i managed it but it was a horrible looking thing with a lot of mistakes. You ain't seeing it , i'd be a laughing stock

 

Splice two was with the same rope , much better but me the crossover nearly killed me (samson 11"), i got it through with out any tecnique and pure brute force , a very rookie error quickly learned.

 

At this point i decided i needed some new rope to practise on , i bought some XTC scorch after speaking to Hadleigh (old snake) and learned alot more splicing that. I've since done another 3 splices and each one has been better than the last imho (Especially my fifth attempt as the crossover taper is smooth , splices 3 & 4 not so much). After lots of reading online i've even seemed to learned a good tecnique for the crossovers with very little effort. Result !

 

 

I've just bought some Yale Silverstreak (its cheap) to try to and want to have a bash at 8mm Sirius to as i'd love to make some e2e's etc.

 

Double braid looks like it will take a bit of getting my head around ???

 

Jim

Edited December 23, 2011 by John Shutler
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