So for something like the baby stay, I would just make the other splice with the "other" technique. If you study the "Colligo" way, you can see how the locking tucks work. If you take the tail of the line (with extra for the bury) and pass it through the body of the line below where you want your eye to end. Then the second tuck is done with the *other* end tucking through the smaller section of line, just where it exits the first tuck.
If you just take the bury end and "S" it through the line, it won't be locked at all....
Hopefully this makes sense... it's simple but there are a number of subtleties to it that are really hard to convey. When in doubt, just buy the splicing book. I'm sure this won't be the only time you use it once you have it.
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Eric Bott
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