I was fiddling around, making a hammock fixed length structural ridgeline.
I use 1/8 amsteel, knowing it’s overkill.
Tried to make ridgeline 9 feet 6 inches for my new 11 and a half feet hammock. After making locked brummels on both ends and rather long buries, my finished ridgeline measured 10 feet long!
Hard to get length right, when using a long bury and locked brummels!
I said ok, I might use that 10 foot ridgeline on my 12 foot hammock.
Next I made another spliced ridgeline. This time with no locked brummels.
The eye splices on each end were temporarily adjustable, so I could adjust and get almost exactly the length specified.
After adjusting length, I milked the bury and set the splice by pulling real hard.
Then I tied the splice into an overhand knot and tightened it real tight.
Then I buried the last few inches of inner core.
In theory, this overhand knot in the finished splice (both inner bury and outer sheath, will keep the splice from getting shorter or longer.
I could have sewn through the amsteel to keep the splice from adjusting to either a larger or smaller eye splice.
I used long burys, around two feet long. I might experiment with two foot long bury. Try same process as just mentioned except no locked brummels, no sewing, and no overhand knot.
Maybe just the length of long bury will keep splice in place, once bury has been milked and entire splice pulled tight by hand—and then supersetting the splice by initially hanging at somewhat less than 30*. This will pull the splices real hard and set those buries. Maybe that will work.
Still testing splices secured with an overhand knot.
If no one tries anything new, then how else will we grow?!?!?
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