Jamie

what did you get? i like to poke around yacht chandlers looking for stuff, my local one has a bin of short lengths of rope at cheap prices which is great to practice on.

i spliced up the armor prus with a standard doublebraid splice. i'm not happy with it like that in the slightest. unfortunatly steve could only spare a short length. i think i may have to try and blag some more off of Tony at donaghys.

for eye to eye cords, remember as the splice is buried the cord will shorten as it has to stretch round the increased quantity of rope. i keep meaning to measure the slack taken up and note down the difference. also see the note from samson i posted in your thread. being teh geek that i am i've printed off all samsons, yales, new englands directions. I find samson the best ones to follow, yale measure out the taper slightly differently on Dbraids.

on 10mm cord i've found the taper is just the right length to mark out where to tie my blakes. it seems to be the perfect length on a butterfly.

i think you may have to ask me specifics as i'll just rabbit on in a random fashion otherwise.

Jamie