[ryangossen]

Well, I completed a rather successful eye splice last night, thanks to your advice an encouragement. Then I re-attacked my previous second attempt, and milked the cover that last centimeter. My hands feel like Iíve been foot-locking all week (a non-mechanical method of ascending rope). Judging from another new post about blisters today, this is normal too. I kept thinking I had to be doing something wrong, but no, this is a tricky, tedious practice evolved by millennia of rough handed men driven insane by boredom on long voyages. Anyway, I think Im over the hump now. Im going to make a couple more and Iím ordering Brionís dvd. Thanks again.