Naked Brummel or McDonald Brummel

[Alan S Bomar]

Brion,

Concerning the comment on the last post;

I used a piece of 3mm line to pull the eye of the splice in step 3 (p68 working with rope)

Last what is the efficiency of the Naked Brummel?

Thanks for the reply.

Alan

[Brion Toss]

Hi again,
Got it. Multiple Brummels, done correctly, give you about 75% efficiency. A single Brummel, in combination with a nice, tapered bury, is at or around 100%. It's also tidier. A tapered bury, with a lot of stitching, sans Brummel, is the same efficiency.
Fair leads,
Brion Toss