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Admiralty eye splice: a wire splice generally considered adequate for

normal industrial usage, the main feature of which is that after the first
tuck, all strands are tucked away in an ‘over one, under one’ sequence,
against the lay of the standing part.

figure 1

There are also various ways of completing the first full tuck, the most
common of which is in the strand order of 1–6–2–3–5–4.

First establish the size of the eye and apply a seizing accordingly. Then
unlay the strands to the required length, ensuring that they are in the
correct order. The illustration (figure 1) shows the relative positions of the
tucking strands to the standing part. The heart is always associated with
strand 1, which is the first to be tucked and which is worked from left to

right, over one and under one, with the standing part to the right. A
marline spike or hollow splicing tool is used to separate the strands for
tucking. After strand 1 has been tucked and hauled tight the heart can be
cut out. Strand 6 is then tucked, also from left to right and also in an over