The ring was just done and not fully loaded. The Carbineer tight eye has been done awhile and I have yanked the heck out of it trying to get it fully loaded. Not lock stitches yet. I have not lock ststitcd my double braid splices? Have already about wore out one 10 mm Ocean double eye with no lock stitches and no problem???
As I understand it, lock stitches only keep the splice together when not loaded and add no benefit to a loaded eye? Is this correct? I have saw all your posts where you do the lock stitches.
I also used a different method on tapering the cover between the two splices. The ring eye was straight New England directions. The other was from a Brian toss hint on removing one strand of each braid, but doing it twice as far, resulting in a more gradual taper of the cover.
Sorry for the auto correct spelling.....trying to type on my phone.