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Installing an eye splice in the end of a length of double braided rope. Multiple camera angles capture up close details other videos miss.
   • Monkey Fist Knot Dog & Cat Toy  
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I added this eye splice as a handle on the end of this Monkey Fist Dog Toy I made for another video. If you want to see that other video first, the rest of us will wait here for you. Alright?
Welcome back!
So besides some braided line you’ll need a fid, or even a set of them like these plastic ones I’ve got. And you’ll need something pointy like an awl to extract the core from the cover.
So you want to figure out the size of the loop you’re going to make and mark the entry and exit points.
If there’s a plastic tracer running up the inside of it like this one you can just pull on it and discard it.
I like to use an undersized fid to work the core in at the entry point backwards through the case to about two inches past the exit point.
Now I’m going to pull the slack out of the tail to form the eye.
Then I prepare the cover to be inserted into the core at the entry point but again running opposite to the way it originally had. If that makes any sense.
Once you have the tail of the cover inserted in the core about a fid length all that’s left is to massage the slack out of the cover to swallow up what’s left of the core that’s still showing.
So the key to making this milking part easy is to pull an extra foot of core out past the core exit mark and then install the cover end there. I know it’s not obvious from the footage I shot. What that extra foot of core will do is give you an extra foot of cover you can pull the slack out of and cover everything up with.
Finally, you want to snip the tail close to where it comes out and work it back into the splice.
Alright thanks for watching. Hey! Leave a comment if you have any questions and don’t forget to subscribe!

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Timestamps:
00:00 Eye splice braided rope
00:11 Tools required
00:29 Entry/Exit points, remove core
01:15 Work core through cover
02:20 Work cover through core
03:08 Milking the cover
03:36 Milking the cover made easy
03:57 Trim the tail