Everything comes around again. I’d promised a friend with a schooner that I’d show him how to splice his double braid rope. Not too hard to do. However, I’d not realized how difficult it can be to splice OLD braid. So, I took my handy little splicing wand with me (a Brion Toss original) as well as my bag of various splicing stuff. My friend pulled out his Sampson splicing fid (of a variety I’d not seen before) and we proceeded to break the puller string in my wand and to have huge problems with his fid pushing the core braid through. Overall, a few hours went by and the splice still wasn’t complete. So, what comes around again? The friend is probably just going to end up seizing the line around his snap shackle rather than having a proper splice. He started out with a seizing. It all comes around.