An adjustable splice?

[Bob Pingel]

In another thread Brion mentions, "We have also begun making "Yippee Sling" grommets, which are unlocked, so need obsessive stitching, for relatively light duty things like small boat tack and head pendants"

This config is also "unlocked", and the topic of stitching has not yet come up...

Bob

[benz]

Asking Samson is a good idea; they've been helpful to me in the past. My instinctive reaction to the idea of the splice was mistrust: I like everything to look tidy, and having a hundred-foot tail emerge from amongst the braid of a rope will not be very tidy or symmetrical. Then the thought of undoing and redoing splices doesn't appeal either.
Perhaps I will talk my client into using a different method. After all, there's more than one way to skin a cat....
Thanks all!
Ben

[Dan Lehman]

Why look for a splice in both ends?
A more flexible approach is to find a suitable object to hitch
the line to with a few turns and an Anchor bend noose.
--a 6-8" dia section of log? (The log would be then tied on each
end back to ...

with the diameters we're talking (3/4--1"), we could stand to lose even 30% of the strength

And what to you do for an encore--i.e., to what is this monster rope to be attached,
and how?

There are some rules re making highlines that will need adjustment for use of
such INelastic material (as I think such rules usually apply to nylon low-elongation
ropes used in SAR; I've seen this caution voiced for use of Sterling's "HTP" all
polyester rope, e.g..

--dl*
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