I appriciate that, Grizz. I don't think we will need to get out the camera now, but my head sure hurts, LOL!
However, what I am really getting at with the loop on the hardware end is whether or not the hardware needs to be cinched tight. Right now I have a larkshead on my rings, so the larkshead is cinched up on the rings. If I were to splice the rope to form a loop around the rings, the rings would be loose in the loop instead of cinched tight. My question is, do the rings neccissarily need to be cinched via a larkshead or the method above or can they be "loose" in a loop?
The point of this is to have a rope that has no knots in it. Ever since I talked to the old guy at the sailboat shop where I bought my suspension line about splicing rope, I have wanted to use this technique. It would just look real clean, and I can imagine it would be easy to just whip the hammock on both ends, and trim the extra line on the ends coming out of the whipping to a uniform length, (perhaps about a foot on each end) then splice the loops.
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