What do you splice with?

[hk2001]

Personally, I prefer a loop turner. I've never been good with a needle, and I've never tried anything else.

But what does everyone use to splice?

[WaffleBox]

I use a needle and a loop turner for different purposes in splicing. I use the needle to get the cord nice and wide open, then the loop turner to do the actual splicing.

[novasquid]

i have a spool of safety wire left over from prepping a racebike, and figured i'd try that for my first splicing efforts. i don't have experience with splicing tools, but know that safety wire works perfectly fine for everything i've needed to do so far.

[mrh_on]

For me, it depends on what I'm splicing...zing-it or lash-it, I use a guitar wire as I find that doing a loop is hard with a loop turner (go figure) and the guitar wire makes tighter turns in the loop. But for 7/64 or 1/8 amsteel I use the loop turner.

[Eidson]

90+% of the time I'm using a loop turner, even with 1.2mm cordage.
I will occasionally use a fine gage garden/florist wire that is plastic coated.

[Trail Runner]

I use upholstery needles. PapaSmurf turned me on to them when I visited his shop last summer and they work great for me. I use a 12" needle for Amsteel and a 6" needle for Zing-It!.

[SilvrSurfr]

I have some kind of picture-hanging wire for Amsteel. I use Cat 5 cable (single strand) for 1.75 mm Zing-It.

[latriper]

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Various length homemade fish tools plus a loop tuner. Plastic needle for picking tapper threads.

[Pompompaihn]

I have some kind of picture-hanging wire for Amsteel. I use Cat 5 cable (single strand) for 1.75 mm Zing-It.

Genius! And I've got a ton of it available...wish I would have thought of that yesterday after taking my first stab at splicing Zing It!

[Dashinator]

Loop turner for amsteel, small pick from my tool box to seperate strands and random thin/ stiff wire from my garage for small diameter stuff (zing it etc)