Help with making Whoopie slings

Some Dyneema materials are very difficult to splice. I have found the Samson Rope website to be one of the best sources of information on making slings, whoopie or otherwise. I have had no trouble splicing Amsteel Blue or other similar ropes. Zing-It is usually very difficult to splice. I use splicing tools made from knitting needles. I find that a tool made from a knitting needle about the same diameter as the OD of the rope works well. I make my tools longer than usual so that the rope hasn't entered the bury before the tool exits the rope. I have a metal lathe, so I am able to drill a small hole in the flat end of the tool and after tapering the end of the rope, I can push the end of the rope into the splicing tool. I have a pusher that I made from a 1/16" Diameter Stainless Steel welding rod that I use to wedge the end of the rope into the splicing tool and also to push the tool and the rope through the bury. I make the bury according to Samson's whoopie sling recommendations working in FID lengths of 21 rope diameters. I calculate the FID length of the diameter rope that I am splicing and mark the rope accordingly. Most of the information on Samson's website is for larger diameter ropes, but I find that it works well with smaller diameter ropes as long as the lengths are recalculated. I usually try to make a somewhat longer bury than recommended. Samson doesn't taper the rope in their locked brummel eye, but I do. I make the taper before I pull the tail into the bury, mainly to get the rope into my splicing tool's hollow end. I have never had good results trying to splice ropes like Zing-It with wire FIDs.

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YouTube has some great tutorials.

Every few years I need to make some and I always forget how. I search hammock forums for a tutorial and one for a locked Brummell too and after a few minutes I always find what I need.

-Tim