How's the splice today?

[pantheraba]

That's so cool...one of those whoopee, loopie, sliding things...magic splicing thing.

 

[Tommy_B]

That's so cool...one of those whoopee, loopie, sliding things...magic splicing thing.

I can't take the credit. Very cool idea shown to me by The Splice Witch on Instagram. I just shamelessly copied it! It is cool though

 

[pantheraba]

"The Splice Witch " I will definitely have to track that one down. This popped up in my image search:

 

[Raj]

Lookin' good!

 

[Tommy_B]

Made this only to see how easy it would be to do time lapse on the GoPro. Turns out the answer is 'Very'

 

[lxskllr]

How much time actually elapsed?

 

[biggun]

Probably a couple of days knowing Tommy.

 

[Tommy_B]

Think it was about 20 minutes? Good portion of that was trying to remember where I had put things down!

Haha Rich, it takes a lot longer to splice when the kids are being feral, then I dont have to sort them out😄

 

[biggun]

I would have just given them a demonstration of you splicing something up to tie and gag them... that would have shut them up and got them to wind their necks in a bit.

I hear you on the losing things though. I would regularly lose things when splicing, like the skin on the pad of every finger when I foolishly agreed to splice some used Tachyon for a mate.

 

[cory]

Lol, my first splicing experience was splicing used Safety Blue and it was just like you describe, Rich. Basically cured me of wanting to splice.

 

[flushcut]

Nice splicing!

 

[Tommy_B]

Used rope with a nice new tight eye

 

[Jonny]

That’s some dark ass voodoo blood magic right there.

 

[Burnham]

You do handsome work, Tommy.

 

[Tommy_B]

You do handsome work, Tommy.

Thats very kind of you! Much appreciated as well.👍

 

[ruel]

Wow! 16 strand is a pain new, nice job

 

[Tommy_B]

Thank you! I quite like 16 strand!

 

[Tommy_B]

Wow! 16 strand is a pain new, nice job

Did these used ones a little while ago. They were more used and less fun😄

 

[pantheraba]

Great picture!!

 

[Burnham]

Magnificent!

 

[ruel]

Splicing blisters! Putting yourself into your work in the literal sense

 

[Tommy_B]

I went through my phone and found it's just old photos of spliced ropes! Dont remember taking half of them!😄

 

[Jonny]

Okay fingers crossed for first splice ever, I’m gonna attempt to make an ultra ring sling. For less than the cost of a 6‘- 7’ one I got the materials for a 10’-11’ one with ring plus the 5/8” and 3/4” Samson fids. The video from Poplar Mechanic makes it look dead simple.
Ignore those cheesy plastic fids, they’re for a little 3/8” Tenex project I wanna do later.

 

[flushcut]

Sure it's for splicing tennex! It's ok we don't judge.

For tennex I just make a tape fid after a light tapering of the end. I wrap about four inches of the end it works well. The metal fids I just use for measuring really and use the Yale wire basket fid for the splice. I mostly splice BD and tennex.

 

[Jonny]

BD=DB double braid? I’ll see how this turns out first but I’d love to learn to splice 24 strand climbing lines to make a couple lanyards and maybe slings from fatter DB, I don’t use splices on my climbing lines but never tried... just don’t really see the benefit for me since I’m almost always using the middle of the rope. Also naked eye splices on tech cords would be a cool skill, and those footloops Tommy made are sweet! Looks like that’d be easy with Tenex.

Yeah those fids probably aren’t necessary for Tenex, but I’m hoping to not give up here on just Tenex