arborist learning to eye splice

[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.

[Tom Roberts]

Thanks Jason.

[NickfromWI]

Blisters are NOT normal when splicing. You're fighting the rope too much. Rather than relying on brute force, and sweat...massage the rope more to loosen the fibers...by grabbing the throat of the splice and bending sharply back and forth. Then bury a little more, then massage more.

Let us know how it goes!

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nick