Evo: No its good and hard. I did both ends of the 200' rope and after I thought they were both tight and not baggy I put them under tension between a tree and my tractor with the rope passing through a snatch block. I placed a chafe guard in the eye on the other end.
I'm putting in eye splices in new 5/8" Sterling Kraken double braid polyester cover/core rope. I have been using homemade fids for a while so I decided to purchase factory fids. First purchase was a Yale 5/8" fid from Rope & Knot Supply, a company I usually do business with and they claim their...