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In addition, I noted that my own experiences with 20 eye splices resulted in a non-repeatable splice. I wondered why as I thought that I was following the instructions exactly. Well, it turns out that there were subtle differences which I was not following from day-to-day and THOSE subtle mistakes were revealed to me when I bought the DVD from Brion's place on spicing. THEN I had a repeatable experience.

Please understand that I've been doing double-braid eye splices for 35 blasted years (obviously on occasion, not for hire) and having some great successes and some failures! So, like you, I want to be able to successfully do one on occasion and not have to do several in quick succession to make a good one. Also note that nylon eye splices, as noted in Brion's books, will not work well for you in used line (actually I can't do one in used polyester either) without very careful handwork and patience.

Anyway, once you are famaliar with the basic instructions it is the DVD that reveals some subtle turns and handling that you just don't get with written instructions yet some results work out just fine when everything goes well without you really knowing why.