How to splice a deadeye into a wire shroud

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Good Evening All

I greatly enjoy reading the various threads and postings here, but have not seen this subject previously raised - apologies if it has been!

This winter I am intending to undertake the long overdue replacement of the standing rigging on a small, 100 year old, gaff sloop on the Norfolk Broads. She has three sets of shrouds, two pairs of which have wooden (lignum vitae?) dead eyes whilst the third pair (a later addition when the rig was enlarged) have a thimble. There are no lower dead eyes, each shroud lanyard is reeved directly through the eye of its shroud plate - not entirely traditional but it does the job okay and I believe this is the set up from when she was built. I would like to retain the dead eyes and also put them on the third set of shrouds, which leads me to my question.

The dead eyes at present sit snugly in eyes formed in the shroud wire by a talurit type mechanical splice. I would like to splice the new shrouds by hand (partly so that it looks right, but also to save a few quid!) but I am concerned that if the eye is tight enough around the dead eye to provide a snug fit, the tension on the splice once in use will be trying to pull it apart, rather than how it would be if formed round a thimble for example.

Is there anything that I should do or any particular splice that should be used to prevent damage to the wire? Any suggestions would be extremely gratefully received.