Well 2 down 4 to go
number 1 was trial and error
number 2 went better, the eyes are all over sized for a larger radius solid thimble, I will most likely serve up over the splice for chafe protection as well.
I did a little expiermenting normally on the work splice if there is any taper it is only running the paired strands up staggered 6 or seven strands, also only about 8 tucks max. These are obviously many more tucks and I also brought the paired strands up to the normal stagger for the start of the taper then opened up the individual strand and seperated about half out, I cut off half of each ind strand in the pair then continued on up which gave a really nice taper to the splice.
Jake