#BRUMMEL EYE SPLICE HOW TO#

Part 3 just pulls the bury into the cover so no big deal. There is a part 2 that covers the taper and the bury. You do not need to stitch the splice because you have used a Brummel!īelow is a video that shows the splice being done. You can follow the directions for the taper and bury on THIS document. From here you just proceed to put the deadeye in the eye (and find out just how close you are) and tuck and taper the tail.piece of cake really.:-)Īfter you complete the brummel, be sure to taper the tail then bury it. First time you do one of these you will be amazed I bet. The arrow shows the location of the original football. If you have lined it up right, and kept thing oriented, as you pull the eye through the football and continue to work it down, the foot ball re-inverts back 180 degrees and all the fibers are lying here just like original. Shows the eye going through the hole (just so you will see I am not doing magic) The Dux looks impossible to get the eye through this opening.but it does.:-) Here is where it will be good to have experience with softer laid stuff.

If you get a bit lost or frustrated and roll the tail 180 degrees, it will never work. If you follow the layout here you will be fine. It is real important that you go in the right. take the eye splice on the right and put it through the football. The line is tough, just don't mess up the strands.:-) Do not disturb the fibers, just shove something tapered in there and work it around. You need to take something like a good fid and open up this hole. What you have is a line that is rolled over 180 degrees with a very small hole in it. Pull on the tail until the tuck rolls over on itself. Pull out the deadeye and make the next tuck as shown in this shot. This mark will become the locking tuck spot. When the tail is,īefore this shot you take the deadeye and insert again (just like you do to measure the original eye sizing) Snug it all down on this first tuck and make a mark on the tail. I have found it really help to get this memorized.

#BRUMMEL EYE SPLICE HOW TO#

But wait a minute! What if we have a deadeye spliced on the end of the of the shroud now? How to get the thing done using only one end.

The 'normal' way to make a Brummel splice, the double locking tucks were done by bringing the tail of the entire shroud back through.

Obviously you need to taper and tuck the end to finish the splice. This is the way to do it! Credit should go to Brion Toss publishing the splice and to his illustrator, Margie McDonald, for developing it. This is a true Brummel without any fibers being inverted and without having to drag the entire tail of the line through the splice. Following is an (edited) reprint of a cruisersforum post showing a really nice way to make a Brummel.

Brummel eye splice