I've made loops as small as 6 inches in diametre. Certainly not recommended but so far they have held.
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I've made loops as small as 6 inches in diametre. Certainly not recommended but so far they have held.
I've been making some loops, and chewing on the fact that the open Brummel holds nothing. After rereading this thread, I'm leaning in the direction of stitching the buries, but haven't talked myself into it, yet. In the meantime, I try to center the Brummel in the larkshead, so that the pressure of the larkshead fixes the buries.
How on earth did I miss this post when I was making these last month... How silly of me.
Thanks for the great walkthrough opie. :)
This thread has great directions on the loop. Opie says he doesn't stitch his loops. Post #45 in that thread describes a locked brummel version, but doesn't have a picture of the process. I'm having trouble visualizing it myself. Off to do more searching.
I'm still lost. I tried it with 7/64 amsteel. I got the lock down but I'm havingtrouble figuring which way to do the buries.
Back before we all went splicing crazy, the preferred method for making closed loops was a fisherman's bend, either double or triple...Warbonnet still employs that methodology. I just made a hybrid loop with Dynaglide...double fisherman's bend with 3" buries. Not bad.:) It's not a better way, just another way, and I'll probably stick with stitching my buries, and call it a day.
I'm going to ask the mods to move this discussion to the continuous loop thread. [Done]