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Default whipping or dipping?


Thom Stewart wrote:
Joe,

I don't think I've ever seen a back splice in a woven line? How is it
done?


Same as chinese handcuffs, yet you back the core. Same way you do an
eye in braid yet remove the eye.

That's yacht rope anyway, i figured real sailors use 3 strand rope.

Joe

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