The Splicing Handbook: Techniques for Modern and Traditional Ropes — 2nd Edition

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The only book devoted completely to slicing today's ropes, this fully illustrated, step-by-step guide has been expanded and enhanced in this new edition and now covers wire splices, and splices in Spectra and Kevlar ropes as well as Dacron braid and traditional three-strand.

The Splicing Handbook includes every splice project a boater will ever need.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction to Splicing
Rope Construction | Synthetic Rope Materials | Summary of Rope Characteristics | Small Stuff | Rope Care | Splicing Tools

2. Three-Strand Twisted Rope
Eye Splice | Decorative Eye Splice | Ring Splice | Short Splice | End Splice

3. Three-Strand Splicing Projects
Key Lanyard | Dog Collar and Leash | Rope Railings with Double Wall and Crown Knot | Cliff's Sailing Harness

4. Double-Braid Rope
Eye Splice | End-to-End Splice | End Splice | Rope-to-Wire Splice | Jig for the Rope-to-Wire Splice | Core-to-Core Eye Splice | Reduced Volume End-to-End Splice

5. Solid-Braid Splice

6. Braid with Three-Strand Core Eye Splice
Rope-to-Wire Splice

7. Braid with Parallel Core
Eye Splice

8. Hollow Braid
Eye Splice | Locked Eye Splice | End-to-End Splice

9. Copolymer End-to-End Splice

10. Eight-Plait Rope
Eye Splice | End-to-End Splice | Temporary Eye Splice

11. Eight-Plait Rope-to-Chain Splice
Rope-to-Chain Splice

12. Twelve-Plait Rope
Eye Splice | End-to-End Splice

13. Whipping and Seizing
Traditional Whipping | Sailmaker's Whipping | Seizing | Chafe Protection

14. Sew-and-Serve Eye Splice

15. Quick and Easy Knots

16. Liverpool Wire Splice

17. Making Your Own Rope

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