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Oh,while I'm thinking about ,some of our safety lanyards which are factory assembled come with a "shrink tube " type of thing over the ends of the eye splices .Perhaps a more modern method of serving or at least doing one in the same .

I have a chunk of 5/8" some type braided line ,about 100 feet . It says on the reel non splicable so I "served " [whipped ]an eye on the end for a wire pulling rope .It holds just fine ,never had a bit of trouble with it comming apart . Now I would not trust such a thing for a life safety line...

That would fall under the catagory of "marlinspike seamanship " Very old school fancy work using "white line " It's almost a lost art now of days .I did a little of it in my sea going days which were much after the hemp rope days but before braided line was thought of for anything but a clothes...