Thoughts on whip/stitch or whip & stitch positioning!

[nod]

Just thought to pop the question of whether the good arbtalk folk thinks that whip & stitch is preferable to just whipping or just stitching & why?

 

Also, what is the significance of the positioning of the whip/stitch?

 

Obviously I have some thoughts regarding this but really want to see if the melting pot can distill some fresh insight.

 

Cheers

Nod

[softbankhawks]

Some clever dude said that stitch/whip should add to the integrity of the splice. So what need we add? Some double braids are soft and there is a high chance of the whole kit and kaboodle sliding out at low loads...Stitch. If a cover can milk up to the neck of a splice then perhaps a crossover may start to fall apart.....Stitch. My double braid splices are soft necked and I always stitch next to the eye, I learnt with Brion Toss's one strand removal, maybe a touch of habit too. I blind stitch and add four stitch's to the outside. I think that eye's should be as clutter free as possible, ID tags and 'pretty' whipping annoy me, it gets in the way with hardware. That's only for db class1.

[High Scale]

I stitch and whip close to the eye, I think it looks neater but hey.

 

I like Paul am no great fan of ID labels near the splice, maybe we should be chipping like Tendon?

Edited February 11, 2013 by High Scale

[John Shutler]

Stitch and whip

 

 

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