Thanks for taking the time to make this video. I’ve wanted a number of videos about eye splices in double braid rope. This video fills in a lot of blanks that the other videos don’t explain.
Excellent tutorial, Bob. I have a bunch of lines with eye splices that came with the old boat im restoring and always wondered how they made rope do that. Now I know. Cool stuff.
Back at least 25 years ago, I made many dozens of splices for sailboat rigging. We would weave in the core 15 times the length of the eye and weave in the sheathing at least 7 times length. Whipping was unnecessary for our applications. Much more time consuming was weaving stranded stainless into a halyard with a very gentle taper for halyards. I liked New England Rope products for this type of work.
Great tutorial, Bob. I do a few of these in my day job and it's always interesting to see other people's techniques as there's always something to learn. One thing I like to do to make things easier: after feeding the tapered cover through the core, I leave the fid taped on and save the milking until after I have got the core through the cover. This means there are no worries about the cover sneaking back out whilst I'm messing about with the other side; once both core and cover are inside their respective cover and core they can each still be pulled tight, ensuring a tight crossover point. Just something that helped the process for me! Cheers, love the videos.
Wow, that's really a neat skill to have. I loved how well pulling on it with the bar pulled the last of the core in, that was like a magic trick. Maybe they should laser etch the fid instead of stamping it?
Thanks Bob. The tip on tapering the cover is was great- that’s been my undoing on my attempts with small diam lines when I haven’t been able to bury to form the eye.
hi Bob, good stuff as always. I had bought a set of fids a long time ago but didn't have very good instructions. I started and gave up in a fit of frustration. I may take another crack at it and now I know where to find the "how to" cheers, Chuck
Hi Chuck, I agree at the start I too was frustrated with it. After several attempts it came together. Do give it a go it is quite satisfying. Cheers, Bob
Another great video. I definitely struggle getting the doubled lines into that cover. I've been using old lines to practice. Any ideas on how to get old used line loosened up enough to get the core and cover to move?
Thanks for this video. I tried this once and failed. I think I used the wrong rope. It was quite old and a bit stiff (wanted to practice with a scrapped rope) and now I also think it was the wrong type.
Everything is thought out and explained very carefully. An exquisite, fantastic work! I never tire of watching your videos.
Thank you very much!
Thanks for taking the time to make this video. I’ve wanted a number of videos about eye splices in double braid rope. This video fills in a lot of blanks that the other videos don’t explain.
That's awesome, Bob. I didn't recognize Pat in his disguise.
Really interesting process indeed, Bob! Thanks a bunch for the tutorial! 😃
Really beautiful work!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Thanks, you too!
Nice tutorial. I had to learn to polish my fids myself.
Excellent tutorial, Bob. I have a bunch of lines with eye splices that came with the old boat im restoring and always wondered how they made rope do that. Now I know. Cool stuff.
Back at least 25 years ago, I made many dozens of splices for sailboat rigging. We would weave in the core 15 times the length of the eye and weave in the sheathing at least 7 times length. Whipping was unnecessary for our applications. Much more time consuming was weaving stranded stainless into a halyard with a very gentle taper for halyards.
I liked New England Rope products for this type of work.
Great tutorial, Bob. I do a few of these in my day job and it's always interesting to see other people's techniques as there's always something to learn.
One thing I like to do to make things easier: after feeding the tapered cover through the core, I leave the fid taped on and save the milking until after I have got the core through the cover. This means there are no worries about the cover sneaking back out whilst I'm messing about with the other side; once both core and cover are inside their respective cover and core they can each still be pulled tight, ensuring a tight crossover point. Just something that helped the process for me!
Cheers, love the videos.
Fascinating!! Thanks
That was a great video Bob. I always thought that making eye's was hard but your tips would certainly help. Thanks for sharing,
You are very welcome
Thanks! Been looking to learn how Have done some net making Learning knots Just love everything nautical Been involved in boats since grade school
Well Bob I have to say, it’s been a splice.
Thank you for your wonderful content.
Wow, that's really a neat skill to have. I loved how well pulling on it with the bar pulled the last of the core in, that was like a magic trick. Maybe they should laser etch the fid instead of stamping it?
Great tutorial on splicing!!!
Please look up a snap shackle as this is quite different from a snap hook that you showed.
Thanks Bob. The tip on tapering the cover is was great- that’s been my undoing on my attempts with small diam lines when I haven’t been able to bury to form the eye.
Glad it helped!
We love you bob
Thank you very much for the eye splice lesson, you make it easy to follow.
Truly amazing!
Informative, as always. Thanks
hi Bob, good stuff as always. I had bought a set of fids a long time ago but didn't have very good instructions. I started and gave up in a fit of frustration. I may take another crack at it and now I know where to find the "how to" cheers, Chuck
Hi Chuck, I agree at the start I too was frustrated with it. After several attempts it came together. Do give it a go it is quite satisfying.
Cheers,
Bob
Excellent video. Thank you.
Love your videos 💝 And your ending on all videos.... If you're gonna to do it, do it beautiful.
With great respect and humility ! 👍⛵
Truly useful, thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you.
You're welcome!
I could have done with this a couple of days ago, as I had to redo the eyesplices for my mooring lines, fortunately I had an old one to copy.
Have you tried crocheting hooks? Seems like they could help a lot pulling thread out
No, the tip of the open nippers works great.
Another great video. I definitely struggle getting the doubled lines into that cover. I've been using old lines to practice. Any ideas on how to get old used line loosened up enough to get the core and cover to move?
Soaking the ends may help.
Thanks for this video. I tried this once and failed. I think I used the wrong rope. It was quite old and a bit stiff (wanted to practice with a scrapped rope) and now I also think it was the wrong type.
But, can you run with those scissors?
Splicing three strand and eight plait seems to be a doddle by comparison!
I always called them sewing scissors.
Hi Bob I sent you a quick email check it out thanks