The Splicing Handbook

Barbara Merry is a marine rope worker with twenty years of expierence in the splicing trade. Dounder and owner of the MArlinspike Artist in Wakefield, Rhode Island, she has worked on projects for boats of all sizes, from small traditional sialing craft and working schooners to commercial fishing vessels and U.S. Coast Guard cutters. She has taught at the WooderBoat School and the Northeast Maritime Institute, and has written on rope and rope technology for WoodenBoat and Invention and Technology. John Darwin is a rope design and engineering consultant for New England Ropes, Inc.

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
Glossary
Index