How's the splice today?

[Tree09]

Make one from a coat hanger or welding rod would be my bet

 

[ruel]

I've had those suspenders on throwline loops for a while now. Maybe 2 years of occasional use, sitched in place on my old chainsaw pants. That pfanner elastic is surprisingly durable

 

[stig]

Sew some buttons on or if you can't sew, then hammer some bachelor buttons in.
Then get a pair of these:

Home - Logger Suspenders

Suspenders Made in the Wild Places for People Who Live There - Like We Do

www.loggersuspenders.com

 

[ruel]

New line for the boom vang on my boat. Never spliced 1/4 inch before, teeny tiny. Not my cleanest work bit it's non critical, and a good warm up for all the upcoming work I'm going to be doing

 

[Marc-Antoine]

No risk to cut the eye with the edges? It seems a tad too sharp and wide for me (it makes two small radius angles on the rope).

 

[ruel]

Definitely crossed my mind, but if it breaks nothing terrible would happen.

 

[ruel]

Biggest pain ive had splicing in ages. 3/4 inch Sterling Atlas line straight to my mooring swivel. The core is so fat the burry beat up my hands badly. Couldn't get the last 1/2 inch down, hence the seizing to tighten up the eye. Should be plenty strong still, 22k breaking, and the boat weighs only 2k in a sheltered cove.

 

[pigwot]

How long does that Atlas last out in the elements?

 

[ruel]

Dunno yet, at least 5 days so far. I'll keep you posted

 

[ruel]

Basal anchor for Sven in Imori, with the Bryon Toss invisible lock stitching.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

It was time to replace the Loopie on the Pinto Rig and I had a little 3/8ths Tenex left over to make a dead eye for my mini porty or small pulley. Aiko thought they were cool.

 

[BeerGeek]

Stephen, is that wonderful job you did there also being used as a cat leash/lasso?

 

[treebilly]

@CurSedVoyce
Is that a locking brummel? From my tiny phone screen it doesn’t look like one.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

No, it's not.

 

[flushcut]

I had to resplice this 3/4" tennex dead eye I had to cut apart.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Natty... and knotty... giggle

 

[flushcut]

Natty crotch!

 

[Brocky]

Basal anchor for Sven in Imori, with the Bryon Toss invisible lock stitching.
View attachment 113248

Brion used a cover strand that didn’t get buried to do the lock stitches, the colors matched ,but the stitches were visible on the outside. Nick Araya has an invisible lock stitch method, I don’t see any stitches on the outside, so perhaps you’re using his method?

 

[ruel]

Ahh yes, it's a hybrid of the two

 

[Brocky]

Thanks, I couldn’t tell if that was a cover strand or the gold color whipping twine.

 

[ruel]

Finally built a rig and ring. Hanging trees without Having to climb back for a block, pretty exciting

 

[treebilly]

Went almost to easy.
thinking that since the whip and lock stitch like to get shredded badly as someone else posted, I might just lock stitch down the taper more? Might do one more tonight yet.

 

[Tree09]

From my understanding the purpose of the lock stitch is to simply hold the splice in place when it's unweighted. When a load is on it it clamps down, but can work loose if it is loose. So i always figured if i simply did a nice seizing like you did there (which i imagine you stitched thru the rope several times) that did the same purpose and then some. I even went so far as to splice a larger eye, then do a seizing to size the eye around a biner. This way the clipping wears on the marline and not the rope.

 

[flushcut]

View attachment 116183Went almost to easy.
thinking that since the whip and lock stitch like to get shredded badly as someone else posted, I might just lock stitch down the taper more? Might do one more tonight yet.

Looks good!
I really like a tight eye on my 1/2” lines.

 

[treebilly]

@flushcut
Just made a few dead eyes for shits and giggles. I might splice some rings into a few dead eyes over turkey vacation. Of course that means I have to remember where I put the rings at.