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  1. figuredwood

    Ocean Polyester eye and eye

    Finished eyes with lock-stitch from cover yarn. Any critique would be very much appreciated... If I manage to get this break-tested, I'll be sure to post the result here...
  2. figuredwood

    Ocean Polyester eye and eye

    Core taper at end
  3. figuredwood

    Ocean Polyester eye and eye

    Core taper (50% in one spot - Samson's instructions)
  4. figuredwood

    Ocean Polyester eye and eye

    Cover bury
  5. figuredwood

    Ocean Polyester eye and eye

    I ended up using Samson's instructions (Class 1 DB) with Nick's excellent taper trick, and Brion Toss' trick of pulling out a single cover yarn at mark R to lock stitch the finished splice with. Because of that I removed single carrier strands in only seven of the strands in the first direction...
  6. figuredwood

    Ocean Polyester eye and eye

    Thanks Nick
  7. figuredwood

    Ocean Polyester eye and eye

    Would that style of taper need to start farther toward the tail than 8 strands because it is so much more abrupt than removing the double strand each direction every 5 strands?
  8. figuredwood

    Ocean Polyester eye and eye

    Thanks Nick for the explanation and the "pic", now I don't feel so "strand"ed with figuring this taper out. That's an interesting way of doing the taper with all one direction of strands first, then all the other direction after. Any advantages of doing it that way instead of alternating right...
  9. figuredwood

    Ice Tail loop

    Good call on the stitching, I should have thought of that before ordering 25' of Ice Tail... I'm not so worried about the stiffness... it will be backed up with a butterfly knot anyway and I'm sure it will be fine once it's set (my friction savers are Arbormaster so there is plenty of size...
  10. figuredwood

    Ocean Polyester eye and eye

    Thanks for the great idea Nick. That would probably work on something like Tenex TEC too, wouldn't it? When you do your OP taper do you mark every 5th pair of strands, but only take one carrier strand out of each direction at that point? Thanks, Jason
  11. figuredwood

    Ocean Polyester eye and eye

    OK... about to try my first Ocean Polyester splice (8mm). I have heard that it is OK to follow Samson's Double Braid Class 1 instructions for this. One question: what is the minimum sling length for this splice? Samson's instruction book states that "the minimum eye and eye sling length with...
  12. figuredwood

    Ice Tail loop

    I've used Tenex TEC for similar splices before. My idea was in this scenario, if the prusik loop became forced against the running rope in the ring, it would be less likely to become severely glazed or melted. I know I should be inspecting for such things before using the system each time, but...
  13. figuredwood

    Ice Tail loop

    Sorry if this has been posted before... I wasn't able to find any info on it: I'm wanting to splice a prusik loop with a captive ring out of Ice Tail for an adjustable ring & ring friction saver. Looking at Samson's splicing instructions I see that Ice Tail is a Class 2 12 strand splice...
  14. figuredwood

    Pulleysaver funk

    That looks good Martin, do you find that the Edelrid karabiner ever gets pulled up into the Pinto and damages the sheave?
  15. figuredwood

    End-for-end splice for pinto rig prusik

    Will, did you use standard class 1 double braid end-for-end splicing instructions for you OP loop? I was thinking of ordering a bunch of 8mm OP but haven't done that type of splice before. Is it relatively straight forward? Your loop looks about 18" long, is that as short as you can get with...
  16. figuredwood

    Pulleysaver funk

    Thanks Will, I never would have figured that one out. Good idea. Do you find the throwbag rings ever get stuck (don't want to spin around to go through the pulley)? By the way, thanks for running the ecology climb before the ISA conference, that was an awesome experience!
  17. figuredwood

    Pulleysaver funk

    I know it's an old thread, but I was trying to figure out Treewill's setup... The Pinto Rig is 24mm cheek to cheek, and the smallest DMM ring is 26mm inside diameter. How does the retrieval ball work when the retrieval ring is larger than the pulley? Is it just the space taken up by the...
  18. figuredwood

    End-for-end splice for pinto rig prusik

    Thanks guys. I've got a bunch of Tenex I had thought of using, but was worried about the strands picking against rough bark etc. Maybe that's not such a big issue in this application. JeffL, the AllGear Tech Cord looks interesting. I see that it is 16 strand hollow braid. Is it pretty...
  19. figuredwood

    End-for-end splice for pinto rig prusik

    I'm trying to make a DIY PulleySaver with some Arbormaster and trying to get the prusik for the pinto sorted. I have got some 3/8 UltraTech lying around that I was thinking of using, and I'd really like to have the prusik being a loop through the pulley (like on the actual PulleySaver) rather...

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