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    Homemade brass fids - photo


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    Nice but what is a fid for?

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    I believe that it is used to stiches rope together.

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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
    Homemade brass fids. By Dspikes316.




    Beautiful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Frank S View Post
    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.

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    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?

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ralphxyz View Post
    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?
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