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  1. ARLO

    Splicing Tachyon

    I really didn't care about their delicate sensibilities, it was more because I found that their recommended approach was so much easier to do, especially in terms of the final bury. So, instead of telling people to do it the hard way I thought it would be better to just do it the easy way. But...
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    Splicing Tachyon

    Hi fellow splicers. For years I have had an instructional video on Youtube that gave instructions for how to splice Tachyon based on the old modified double-braid method. It had lots of views and worked ok, but was a real bear to do the final bury. I realized recently that my video was...
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    Components of a Self-Advancing Knee Ascender (SAKA)

    I think there is a reason that there have not been any new posts on this thread since 2018. Most of us were extremely happy to see Richard outlast the lawyers and get his unique design to market. So we quit making our inferior copies and decided to support him by buying his stuff. I have two...
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    Show off them splices

    This one reminds me of the old Robin Williams monolog on how the Scots invented golf. Check it out.
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    Show off them splices

    Works well for dog toys as well. Tougher than what they sell at the feed store.
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    Yeah guys, have a good one!
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    Make Us Laugh :)

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    Vega Eye Splice

    Would this be possible with a tight eye?
  9. ARLO

    Vega Eye Splice

    Maybe you are on to something. But you will have to draw me a picture. I am one of those visual guys - I do a lot better if I can see it. It looks like your brummel is actually in the eye as opposed to above the throat. So I am confused.
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    Vega Eye Splice

    You are correct. Do what they show in the picture, and ignore the wording.
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    Vega Eye Splice

    If you go to youtube and type "Joe Stockton Drenaline splice" it will pop up. He does the spLIFE splice on Drenaline, which differs in that it has 9 core strands whereas Vega has 8 core strands. So with Vega this means that you pull out 4 core strands at mark C instead of 5 strands with...
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    Vega Eye Splice

    I have done several eye splices with Marlow Vega using the method recommended by Marlow and found them quite difficult to pull through unless you get everything perfect. So I decided to try some spLIFE splices with Vega and found them much easier to do. I had two of them tested and they broke at...
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    Show off them splices

    Purty!
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    Edelrid Woodpecker Splice

    If you can do Tachyon you can do Woodpecker.
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    Edelrid Woodpecker Splice

    A friend recently gave me a couple of 200' pieces of new Edelrid Woodpecker rope, which is an 11.7 double-braid that is much like Tachyon in that it has 3 additional strands inside the braided core. I was not particularly impressed with the thin, wimpy splice that Edelrid uses for this rope so I...
  16. ARLO

    Who can steer me towards a good wire fid?

    I have made many of my own, but you can't beat the fids that Mark makes at Fids and Fibers. On top of that he is a nice guy so I take every chance I get to tell people about him. If you ever get a chance to take one of his splicing workshops do it!
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    Show off them splices

    I just tried one where I pulled 5 strands out at mark C and then tapered the other 6 strands in a 2,2,1,1 pattern at the 4 core reduction points. At the two core reduction points where I cut off 2 core strands I staggered the cuts just a tiny bit so that it makes a smoother taper. It looks and...
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    Show off them splices

    I have done two of them so far. I have bounced on them and nothing moves but there is a bit of thinness above the splice. Think I am going to try another version where I only pull out 5 strands at mark C and then pull out 2, 2, 1, 1 at the 4 taper points. Might make things worse, but we will...
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    Show off them splices

    Hey Brocky, have you tried splicing Teufelberger Fly? A friend gave me a well-used piece so I decided to try it with a slightly modified version of the SPlife splice. Because it has 11 core strands I pulled out 6 strands at mark C and then pulled the other 5 at the 4 taper points, with 2...
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    Show off them splices

    Yes, that is it exactly! Until I hear differently I will refer to it as the "Fusion". This makes me curious if the international guild of knot tyers refers to this knot by that name?

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