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I would never climb on a splice if it were not stitched....... especially if I were the splicer.

I actually do have them lock stiched. I just use threads from the cover taper so its "hidden". I used to do the whipping but I kind of got away from doing that.

Well, if a splice could come apart, I think I could make it happen. Its really a piece of mind thing. I have been using this quite a bit lately and in some bigger trees. I have been inspecting it often and I have been using my safety lanyard a lot. It makes for slow going, but I dont care...

PCTREE, Thanks for the offer. I think I may just take you up on that. I will pm you right now for the details.

So what, now you are the splicing police... WTF!? Ha! just kidding RD. I just learned to splice dbl braid and I thought I would give it a try on a FS. Nothing more than that. Just having fun with splicing and trying not to kill myself in the process. I know you are too young for beers, but...

Here is a pic from the 3 strand that I made last year. I do like how easy they are to inspect. I did hook one of my dbl braid splices up to our pickup trucks. The splice held and started to drag one of the trucks on dry concrete.

I lock stitched my FS. When you say they are secure, do you think that since it held me so far that I should not worry about it and consider it safe?

I have had it sitting in my truck for a couple of days, but I have been thinking about it for some time now. I have been climbing on a 3 strand FS that I spliced up last year and that was the first 3 strand splice that I used for life support. Funny thing is that I always test my splicing on...

I recently spliced up an adjustable friction saver out of Sta-set. This was my first double braid splice that I will be using for life support. Today I actually climbed on it, but I backed it up by girth hitching a sling above the friction saver and placing a revolver on the sling and on my...