While trying to figure out how a Lankhorst A3 splice is done, the splicing is all done in the eye, I came up with another way to make eyes in the twisted parallel cored ropes. Xstatic’s break strength is 7192 lbs, the left one broke at 6031, and the other, which had a foot and a half feet piece...
If your splice above was thinner than the rope, that means the cover is less than 50% of the rope, maybe leaving some of the twisted strands inside the cover tail would correct it.
Did you want to taper less on the cover because the core is reduced, the eye looks very thin? Not sure what you mean when you couldn’t manage the crossover, too big to milk the cover back over? Did the final bury milk too easily making you think it is too thin? Sorry for the questions, I’ve...
The slack that usually goes towards the eyes, causing it to bind up, gets pushed back into the wraps with short, stiff legs. Only pushing up on the hitch, instead of pulling up on the rope to tend, also reduces the amount of binding. The Distel, Cornell, and VT are simply wraps around the rope...
I tried it a few years ago, works okay, does tend the hitch. It takes long hitch legs and has to be set each time, takes a lot of arm movement to hand tend, and it would need a short, strong connector to the carabiner.
A truncated Wrench gives an idea of the concept.
The hitches would hold for a while, but usually will start slipping before breaking. It would only be as strong as the cord holding the two rope ends, if it didn’t slip.