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So where do you all look up these numbers? As far as I can tell most companies only publish the cover strand numbers and that’s usually just for climbing ropes. Ixskllr the number of strands changes how you do your taper, when I’ve gotten it wrong (with my limited knowledge) it usually means...

Thanks Burnham! Seems like a pro splicer would have a spreadsheet for all the common ropes. I haven’t found too many specs that talk about much more than the cover strands. I was surprised that stable braid was 16 strands, always just assumed 24. It does look way different than the common...

i finally cut and dissected a short piece of 3/8 stable braid to discover 16 cover strands and 8 core. Is there a better way? If you have a good pattern, counting left or right strands until they repeat and doubling it, seems to work. Not for core strands though with no pattern? The dyed core...