Show off them splices

[Tommy_B]

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Kernmaster safari xrr&r friction saver. I thought I wasn't going to be able to finish this one. Extremely tight, was a real pain.

That's insane. Great looking work. I've spliced Kern. In no hurry to do so again!

 

[JeffGu]

Spliced a tight eye in some used Yale 11.7 and you guys weren't kidding... it's a bitch! This rope has only been climbed on a dozen times or so, but that final bury gave me fits. I'm guessing it doesn't have to be terribly used before splicing it gets harder.

 

[TreeLogic]

Just did one recently that wasn't too too bad. I felt like the Cougar Puke was harder, but mainly because the cover was so tight, and tough to separate, and running it home was a beeeyyatch! I had to hang it over a tree limb, put my saddle on and bounce on it.

Good idea on the other tail, which I assume is for attaching throwline? What'd ya do, cut some cover away, exposing a section of core, and then braid some line into it, and heatshrink?

 

[JeffGu]

Actually, I cut about 2 inches of the core off, melt the end a little, and sew the cord inside the cover with a Quick/Speedy stitcher. It needs to fit through a ZigZag. I've pulled my MS-261C up into the tree with the tail fixed up this way, when I forgot to take my haul line up with me. But, yeah, it's mainly just to hook the throwline to.

 

[JeffGu]

Got a 35 foot hank of Yale Hedera 24-strand 11.7mm double-braid in a Bag O' Rope and thought I'd try to splice an eye in it. Cover is tight on this stuff. Same construction as the Aztec, but seems like it might be braided tighter. Anyway, it went well so I have a short SRT line, or maybe a mini-DdRT setup. I like the looks of the rope!



Sorry about the blurry pic, camera isn't a very good one.

 

[ARLO]

Here are splices done by 5 students in my climbing class yesterday. Each student has to do a double-braid splice and 16-strand splice. All first time splicers. Ropes are Velocity, Tachyon, Arbormaster, and Bigfoot.

 

[Boomslang]

Here are splices done by 5 students in my climbing class yesterday. Each student has to do a double-braid splice and 16-strand splice. All first time splicers. Ropes are Velocity, Tachyon, Arbormaster, and Bigfoot.

WOW! Their first time looks better than my hundredth time. Obviously they have a very good teacher.

 

[ARLO]

WOW! Their first time looks better than my hundredth time. Obviously they have a very good teacher.

Thanks for the compliment! I find that the biggest challenge in teaching splicing is to make myself stand back and let the student do it themselves. I am pretty impatient and I have to constantly keep telling myself to back off and let them work their way through it.

 

[NJC]

New England Dragonfly (green version of Fly). My cat sure has fun while I struggle to splice.

Edit to show splice unwhipped.


I've only done 16 strand before, what a strange and ugly splice this is. Does anyone have any experience with this stuff to say if this attempt is particularly ugly or par for the course?

 

[CBM]

Nasty splice looks just like mine i did on fly. Ive used it for months now and have had no problems. Ill put a photo on

 

[Sgriff]

Im gonna go ahead and say,if the splice is anything like the whipping, I would not climb on dat [emoji16]

 

[NJC]

Ha, this just might be what I need to hear. Are you familiar with this splice (fly is kernmantle)? I'm going to undo that whipping and snap another pic so the splice is visible. It is indeed ugly, but maybe it's just the unique splice this rope requires?

 

[Sgriff]

Fly is kernmantle ,yes.did you load it prior to whipping? I only said that because the splice is not visible to our eyes,so we cannot see your workmanship,however,we can see the whipping,and therefore are judging your workmanship on what is visible.

 

[NJC]

Fly is kernmantle ,yes.did you load it prior to whipping? I only said that because the splice is not visible to our eyes,so we cannot see your workmanship,however,we can see the whipping,and therefore are judging your workmanship on what is visible.

I did not load it more than putting my body weight into the splice while milking to finish the splice. Is it common practice to hang on it before whipping? I didn't see it in the instructions so didn't think to.

Thanks for all the input, I'm clearly a beginner and would like to be able to put my life on this (or a retry of this) and other splices sometime soon, so don't hold back on any red flags.

These are the instructions I followed (http://www.teufelberger.com/fileadm...ides/kernmantle/SPL_Kernmantle_Heavy_Duty.pdf). Unfortunately there isn't a great picture of a finished splice to compare to, but everything seemed to go pretty well throughout the process.

Original post edited with the whipping removed to show the splice.

-Nick

 

[Sgriff]

I started putting a little pressure on mine with a come a long before stitching em down,im sure it's unnecessary,if you followed the instructions and it all came together smoothly im sure its good to go,i just see the crappy whiplock and think..... Wtf,ultimately thats all we can see of your work ,let it properly represent yourself. I haven't spliced kernmantle but im familiar with the line and the instructions,i did a core to core with a covered eye and was able to whip it down pretty good over the stitches.

granted i used some throwline....

 

[TylerHoffman]

New England Dragonfly (green version of Fly). My cat sure has fun while I struggle to splice.

Edit to show splice unwhipped.

I've only done 16 strand before, what a strange and ugly splice this is. Does anyone have any experience with this stuff to say if this attempt is particularly ugly or par for the course?

Can't see the images njc!

 

[RajElectric]

Can't see the pics as well.

Loading up tough splices is a good idea, IMHO.

 

[NJC]

Tried to upload the photos on the original post from a file rather than URL this time, any luck?

That looks much nicer than mine Sgriff, I should try to do a better job with whipping. Don't have a needle big enough to use thicker line at the moment, and I'm finding it tough to wrap the Marlow twine neatly. As long as it's tight and locked I assumed the ratty looking whip job wouldn't affect the splice, is that correct?

 

[Sgriff]

I see them (on tappatalk mobile ). I would say you assume correctly about the whiplock.i heat sealed the frayed end of the cover and stitched it down to keep it uniform and in place while i whipped it, I would think you can lockstitch it then whip the cover down with a larger diameter string so it will take less wraps and lay evenly,or lockstitch it and heat shrink to keep the cover down...

 

[CBM]

Heres how mine turned out