My saturday

[Jamie]

made some of these babies on saturday. Overall i made 12 splcies over a 6 hour period. every one was different and none were standard.

 

my rope guide

a 24" tenex eye eye sling

 

the last one is a strop that has been hung on the basket of a platform. (round my part the world is squint just like in my picture)

Jamie

[jpbeaver]

looks really good jamie. :wave:

[Amelanchier]

Your tenex splices are way neater than mine!!

[MattyF]

i wish i had the patience to learn how to that,i remember getting confused about splicing 3 strand years ago so i gave up then!

[Jamie]

those tenex splices are a c**t to do the bury is way short. had some broken and mine outlasted the Samson instructions

 

Jamie

[Amelanchier]

I once spent a day splicing four xtc+ and four blaze to send off to Yale for certification/destruction testing.

 

Only problem was... the spec was wrong. They all went in the bin.

 

B*ll*cks.

[Jamie]

the spec was wrong?

 

eyes too small for their machines? they all look nice enough. no whipping though

 

Jamie

[Benji MacNab]

Excellent work Jamie.

 

Tony, are those 'split tails' for Blakes? if so they look a wee bit short?

[Jamie]

My 10mm split tails are 105cm long. plently with tons of excess.

 

Jamie

[Amelanchier]

Microblakes.

 

They are bang on the spec I was issued.

 

However, what they wanted was 6ft length with a 6 inch eye at each end. They put each eye over a post and pull it til it fails.

 

As you can see, the old microtails were doomed from the outset...

 

yep no whipping, i'd just done the 'blister' stage of the final bury.