I don't think there is scope for adjustment. I did some experiments measuring how much the line changed in length after splicing. I marked a distance on the line from the centre of the loop to a mark beyond the splice and measured how much the line shortened after splicing. It's then a case of repeating the splicing method as consistently as you can.OzBungy wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 3:27 amSo how do you make an accurate Brummell splice? Don't you have to pull it apart and remake it if it's the wrong length?
The only reliable way to check length is to make a splice, load it under a specified tension then check and adjust if necessary. Where's the scope for adjustment in a Brummell splice?
It should just take practice to be able to pull the splice through. I have never not been able to pull the line through with a splicing tool or guitar string. The worst has been not being able to get the tool or wire into the line in the first place because the line is too thin (the wire passes all the way through and doesn't go down the middle), or on thick lines where the centre core has bound up and there's no tunnel to push through.ronnie wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 10:50 am.....
This is the video I worked from. I found it almost impossible to get the doubled, tapered line and doubled guitar string back through the line. I then got a thin knitting needle that was the maximum diameter that would go up the centre of the line, and loaded the line onto it, then removed it before passing the guitarline through and pulling the line end back through.
OzBungy wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 3:27 amSo how do you make an accurate Brummell splice? Don't you have to pull it apart and remake it if it's the wrong length?
The only reliable way to check length is to make a splice, load it under a specified tension then check and adjust if necessary. Where's the scope for adjustment in a Brummell splice?
With how much weight and for how long do you stretch? I'm about to make new lines.
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