Page 63 - Eric C. Fry - Knots and Ropework

This is essentially two eye splices, made by the ends of two ropes 35
into the corresponding standing part of the other, the distance
between the splices governing the length of the cut.
W ith strands unlaid and whipped, the two ends are offered up as Cut Splice
Fig 1 and the required length of the cut is established.
The tucking required is identical to that of the eye splice (Plate
3 1) and the first full tuck of the left-hand end into the right-hand
standing part is shown in Fig 2 after which two more full tucks
are made and the right-hand splice finished as Fig 3. The process
is repeated. the right-hand end being eye spliced into the
left-hand standing part when the finished work appears as Fig 4.
The ends have deliberately been left long in Fig 4, to show their
respective positions and to illustrate that they may now be
finished off in one of the three ways described for the eye splice.

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