oakman

hey mate, when i do a eye to eye splice i dont actually taper the core so that they meet up. there is a discernable difference between the diameter in the middle and towards the ends. I have a space of about 10cm in the middle that is 8mm, this helps the coils on my vt stay tight and the ends are stiffer helping the legs stay open. does this make sense? i run a short vt and it gets real hard putting in a eye to eye splice-i wrecked quite a few to start with and actually started doing burys of only 100mm (this still beat the fishermans in strength testing). I spliced some yesterday using the class 1 splice and to be honest im starting to think this might be the easier way to do things, i know this is opposite to what you first asked me so really sorry about that.

For the class II outer to inner final bury(instead of whipping it down) i taper the outer as per the class I instructions and pull it through using a wire fid.