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There is excess cover. You need to keep more tension in the eye when burying it. Not bad for a first splice! love nick

On super tough ropes, I've used KY jelly and it's worked. It's especially convenient because I know you all have a bucket of it around the house! Seriously, though- it's water based and once you're done, it cleans off easily with no residue. No extra stitching required.

1 Fid = 21 or 22 rope diameters. I like to use the 21 diameter measurement because a short fid is a third of a fid, so a short fid is 7 rope diameters and a long fid is 14 rope diameters. If you look at the wikipedia for FID, you can see a chart I nerdily put up there a few years ago so that...

lifted this pic off the buzz... I thought someone had made a youtube vid on the ins-n-outs of making a wire fid. Can't seem to find it.

You wanna start with a wire fid. Piano wire, a coat hanger....any smooth stiff wire will work. Just fold it in half and wrap the pokey ends around a dowel or a carabiner. Then you're in business. The only other specialized thing you'll need is stout needle and something to work as stitching...