Save my hands!

Yep, thats the way, its a obvious one to do instead of struggling, you can do it and make sure the eye does not disappear, if the cover get compressed, just spend your time going the other way, its far easier than a bury :)
 
Some great ideas and advice in here. I will be sure to give these techniques a try next batch of splicing I do. My hands and I thank you!
 
TL and/or ML, can u emphasize on the prussik and biner trick and the beginning of this thread? I think I'm over thinking it but cannot picture what u guys are trying to explain. I'm a visual type learner!
 
TylerHoffman said:
TL and/or ML, can u emphasize on the prussik and biner trick and the beginning of this thread? I think I'm over thinking it but cannot picture what u guys are trying to explain. I'm a visual type learner!
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You've climbed on a new piece of the Poison Ivy family of rope right? When climbing with a friction hitch you milk the slack out of the cover, this is the essential concept of using a prussik when running a splice home. The carabiner in the eye is nice when doing a tight eye because it creates a handle of sorts. Good luck!
 
I tried many of the suggestions in this thread while doing some splicing last week....and my hands thank each and every one of you for some great advice.
 
John_KAYS said:
As you can probably gather from my initial post...I am not someone that has any tricks up his sleeves. Oh except this one, if you curse at the rope right before you do the final bury...or during, it won't help save your hands. It actually won't help anything.
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Boomslang said:
I tried many of the suggestions in this thread while doing some splicing last week....and my hands thank each and every one of you for some great advice.
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I'm glad I could help! I knew that one would come in handy.:D
 
Worthaug said:
One of the best tricks for saving your hands is tightly lockstitching the crossover before running home the final bury home. If the crossover is held tight it keeps the cover tail which is tapered inside the core from bunching up as it is forced into the cover and past the core.
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I will definitely have to try this. Thanks for the tip Reed!
 
It's always that last little bit that needs a little more help getting there. This is my Yale 11.7 that is at that point right now. Looks like I need to take it to work and "help it" with a little more love, lol.

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I know this is nothing new, but...
I love when you watch instructional videos that make it look so easy! But in this video, I like how he demonstrates the 'snap' at about 11:05, and he mentions a good point at 10:00!
 
Levi, I think it is a version of Sunburst. The tracer reads "Yale 11.7 CE 6,500lbs polyester outer, nylon inner

Raj, it will be a tight eye (standard 3-1/2)

Worth, that's usally what I do or just go jump into ig a few times. I just haven't got there yet.
 
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