Page 54 - Barbara Merry - The Splicing Handbook

Double-braid splices—like most splices—are easy to take apart because they
are designed to be pulled on, not pushed. To hold this splice firm, lock-stitch it in
the following way.
Pass a needle threaded with twine all the way through the throat, leaving a tail

of about 8 inches (200 mm). Make three complete stitches running along the
standing part of the rope. Remove the needle from the twine and thread it with
the tail end. Sew three stitches parallel to the first, but 90 degrees around the
rope’s circumference from them. Bring the two ends together through the
standing part of the rope and tie with a square knot, shown in chapter 27.

Turn the rope 90 degrees and repeat the stitches. Trim the twine ends.

If you wish to protect the eye with a leather chafing strip, you’ll need to apply
this before you put in the lock-stitching (see chapter 13).
In the 1960s, Samson Cordage Works, now Samson Rope Technologies
(Ferndale, WA), developed a superior rope double braid. The quality of the

product is excellent, and the price is reasonable.

END-TO-END SPLICE

Here is a way to make an endless loop or to join pieces of double-braid