Quality
Hello,
I try to avoid promoting our merchandise, but it is a bit frustrating to see questions that I've tried to answer long ago. "Chapman's Knots," the "Rigger's Apprentice," and our splicing DVD all go in to showing how to form optimal splices. The short form is that you want the strands to unlay some, for a more compact and secure splice, and that the number of tucks has to do with the slickness and strength of what you are splicing. The angle of tucks also matters, as does the entry and the finish. Oh, and poor splices can indeed weaken a rope considerably, by 20% or more, from tests I have seen. But there's really no reason to do a poor splice.
Fair leads,
Brion Toss
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