Homemade brass fids - photo

[Jon]

Homemade brass fids. By Dspikes316.

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[Ralphxyz]

Nice but what is a fid for?

[Jrrodder]

I believe that it is used to stiches rope together.

[Frank S]

A fid is like a marlin spike only it has a hollowed out side to enable easier passing of a rope strand through the other twisted strands when making splices or eye splices once you get used to using one you will wonder how on earth you ever back splices a rope without one.

[rmidgett]

A fid is like a marlin spike only it has a hollowed out side to enable easier passing of a rope strand through the other twisted strands when making splices or eye splices once you get used to using one you will wonder how on earth you ever back splices a rope without one.

[Scotsman Hosie]

Homemade brass fids. By Dspikes316.

Beautiful.

[Ralphxyz]

Thanks for the video that really explains what a fib does. I didn't realize the knobs on the ends of the brass fibs were removable in order to insert the rope.
I wonder what the tensile strength of the loop is?

[Crusty]

A properly made loop end can have up to 98% of the tensile strength of the line in which it's made.

[Ralphxyz]

Did the video illustrate a "properly made loop?" it certainly looked good. I wonder about getting a metal reinforcement, I used to know the name, inside the loop?

[volodar]

Did the video illustrate a "properly made loop?" it certainly looked good. I wonder about getting a metal reinforcement, I used to know the name, inside the loop?

Rope thimble https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C...w=1680&bih=947