3 strand splice....GRRRRR!

[Chris_Robinson]

So I tried my hand at splicing 3-strand rope today thinking that, since I have a pretty firm grasp of splicing all the other types of ropes that we use, 3 strand would be pretty straight forward. However, I've just spent 2 hours trying to wrap my brain around this rope and splice technique. I've gone through most of the main you tube videos that pop up and I've read the samson splicing manual a dozen times and I still can't wrap my brain around it. Has anybody else had this much frustration and confusion with 3 strand or is my brain just not wired to splice this #$@% rope!?

 

[RajElectric]

you want the splice to look like a banana while you are doing it.

 

[tuttle]

Its fairly easy. the first buries seem out of place sometimes, just go long on the buries, taper in stages and melt the ends, have a go a few times and it soon make sense.

 

[TrillPhil]

I do it the way this marlow video shows...

The samson manual goes like clockwise and I do counter clockwise. So the weird tuck, I do second and the way samson does it is the third.

Sometimes people just learning will pull too hard and put a twist in the eye, don't do that. Leave it a bit loose then dress the first three. Eventually you won't have to.

 

[chris_girard]

3 strand is the easiest stuff there is to splice, though don't think of it as splicing. It's more like weaving. As stated above, you are tucking the strands, not burying them.

I learned to splice from Brion Toss and I highly recommend you look to his directions and use his Point Hudson fid for the tucks.

 

[chris_girard]

So, did you ever figure it out?