Brian, I have done the same thing many times...but Nick is correct(according to the manufacturers and a little logic) that the loose fibers protect the undamaged ones around them from external chafing.
And what is this 20 years stuff?-Nick is STILL in diapers.:P
Gary, It looks like you got most of one strand and a part of another. On a 24 strand that really is not significant. Being that it is a Double braid construction had you cleanly severed even 3 cover strands you could do a mending splice(essentially a darning of the cover) and suffer little...
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