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NickfromWI
02-25-2008, 10:35 PM
I'm starting a little web page. I have a link there where you can go to see splicing directions.

http://www.splicesbynick.com/splicingdirections

If you know of some online directions somewhere, let me know!

love
nick

squisher
02-25-2008, 10:46 PM
Cool Nick!!!

Wagnaw
02-25-2008, 11:14 PM
Great resource Nick!! Thanks for posting it. ...but could I ask a question? Samson's 16 strand splice directions always fail when loading. ...Says its a formatting error. All the others work great though.

Do you know of any other resources where I can find good 16 strand directions? A 1/2" 16 strand eye-splice is one splice that I'd really like to learn, but I just can't seem to find good directions.

NickfromWI
02-25-2008, 11:24 PM
Wagnaw, it opened fine for me. Are you using IE or Firefox? Try the other and see if it works. I just opened it fine with firefox.

I don't know of another place with online directions for 16 strand.

love
nick

pantheraba
02-25-2008, 11:43 PM
Good show, bro. That's cool seeing "splicesbynick.com" up and running.

You even put in the "Warning, Will Robinson...PDF's are here" for Frans.

NickfromWI
02-25-2008, 11:51 PM
It's the least I could do!

rumination
02-26-2008, 12:39 AM
Thank Nick, I've bookmarked it.

Frans
02-26-2008, 11:31 AM
I've bookmarked it, thanks Nick!

did you catch Blinky's diss. at the Buzz on how Brian Toss's instructions worked better for splicing Tacyon than NE's instructions?

NickfromWI
02-26-2008, 02:30 PM
They do. Work better. Brion Toss has an interpretation of the double braid directions that yields the same result, but is a lot more logical to follow. I steer people towards that whenever possible.

In my notes on the first Tachyon Splice, the first or second thing I wrote down was something like, "I need to convert these measurements to BT directions."

I'll do that by the third or fourth Tachyon splice I do. First I need to get the NE Rope directions down so I can understand them before I start converting the directions.

love
nick

sotc
02-27-2008, 10:21 AM
awesome nick, thanks

Blinky
02-27-2008, 04:34 PM
Nick is the Master. http://www.arborcarolina.com/_Images/Smileys/wai.gif

NickfromWI
02-27-2008, 07:24 PM
I wouldn't go THAT far...but this is something that I love doing, and I'm glad that via the internet and occasional live classes I can teach this stuff to people all around the world.

Thank you for the kind words!

love
nick

MasterBlaster
02-27-2008, 07:35 PM
<gjt>

NickfromWI
02-27-2008, 07:39 PM
only slightly creepy!!!

I miss my old avatar, but I guess you gotta keep it fresh to keep it interesting.

love
nick

MasterBlaster
02-27-2008, 07:48 PM
No, change it at will! It's your avatar...

TheTreeSpyder
02-27-2008, 10:12 PM
Really?

Pretty Nice Nick; i'd change the code to make the sites open up in other tabs or windows ("_blank") so one doesn't lose your page/ it stays right in front of'em. Didn't Wall have some stuff before Yale slurped'em up? They stood for almost 2 centuries through wars and many changes to fade like that!

NickfromWI
02-27-2008, 10:20 PM
Wall had some stuff, but my links are now all inactive, due to Yale buying them out.

Spydie, I was just trying to figure out yesterday how to make it so that clicking on the link would still leave my site open, but I couldn't figure it out...I gave up. What's the secret?

love
nick

Blinky
02-28-2008, 06:59 AM
The Anchor tag has a variable called 'Target'. Like Sypdie says, add 'target=_Blank' to the anchor tag, like so ...

&lt;a href="Nick'sLinkToBlaBlaBla.htm" target="_blank"&gt;BlaBlaBla&lt;/a&gt;