Maxi90

16 strand Tommy, no cross over.

 

I actually find 16 strand pretty easy to do, you just need to keep everything nice and neat and smooth, first form the eye and get that right with the help of a mallet if needs be, when it comes to pulling the cover past the core make sure you pass the fid through on on side of the inner core, make sure the fid is moving freely before attempting to pull the cover through, if need be pull some extra cover from the knotted end to give you tad more room, cut a small amount of the cover threads then fold the over the fid keeping the shorter ends trapped by the longer threads, this will form a neater taper to pull through the rope. Ok so now for the good trick, as you pull the cover through between cover and core at the same time pull the core that you have previously removed from the rope this helps massively in getting the core and cover to slide past each over.

 

I can do this splice just using hands and feet, i dont tie it off at all.

 

Ah i forgot to add, make sure the very tip of your fid is slightly bent, then you can feel the fid against the inside of the cover and this helps not to catch any inner strands.

Thank you very much. I think this will help me a lot

Ive spliced it, its got a very tight cover so not the easiest.

I'm struggling with burying the splice. It needs so much power to do. Do you ahve advice for me?

A friend of mine has a XP*e from Edelrid laying around. Do you guys think a splice is doable on that one?

Hi guys,

I’m quite a freshman when it comes to splicing ropes and I was just wondering which criteria make a rope good to splice respectively which criteria make a rope a nightmare to splice? I hope you can help me with that

Cheers