Show off them splices

Thanks Dave, now I have to get some different cordage and try some new stuff.

Whoopie looks clean bud. I dont know what the difference is but I always prefer to lock stitch tenex.
 
Alex McManus said:
Thanks Dave, now I have to get some different cordage and try some new stuff.

Whoopie looks clean bud. I dont know what the difference is but I always prefer to lock stitch tenex.
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I actually wanted to do a lock stitch using a left over strand, but i could not feed it through easily and was getting worried I was ripping too many rope fibers; most likely just a user error on my part.

Also does anyone understand the rope diameters and colors of tenex tec. I thought they were color coded by size but in a bag o rope i got the colors and sizes seem all over the place. For instance I have a blue and an orange piece that both are right around 3/4". The orange may be just a smidgen smaller.
 
Treestuff used to have all of their rope color coded it seemed but other companies would have different color codes. Seems recently to have changed in my experience. Don't go off of the color for sizing.
 
chizmin said:
I actually wanted to do a lock stitch using a left over strand, but i could not feed it through easily and was getting worried I was ripping too many rope fibers; most likely just a user error on my part.

Also does anyone understand the rope diameters and colors of tenex tec. I thought they were color coded by size but in a bag o rope i got the colors and sizes seem all over the place. For instance I have a blue and an orange piece that both are right around 3/4". The orange may be just a smidgen smaller.
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could be amsteel?
 
I've come across this too, it's just a different brand of rope. Close the all the same specs I believe. For tenex and the like I used a leather lacing needle, big brass thing with a domed tip, and a threaded hole in the other end instead of a eye.

I've also picked up knitting needles and cut the back end off to use as a lacing fid of sorts. They also work well to spike the rope in db splicing.
 
Some rope companies color code their ropes so you can tell at a glance which size you are using. Some don't. Yale doesn't, the colors of their rigging ropes are whatever their customer (a distributor) orders. I've got Polydyne in several sizes and the colors vary depending on who I got it from. Tenex-TEC is usually blue for 3/8", green for 1/2", red for 5/8" and orange for 3/4" but I have gotten 1/2" in both blue and green. Not sure what Samson is up to, there.
 
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