[How to] Make a Dyneema Deadeye | Sailing Wisdom 

The first time i've seen properly made locked brummel on continuous loop which prevent loop from loose. Thumb UP!

I’m not a sailor (yet!) but I am a rock climber. I’m using this to add another belay loop or two to my climbing harness. Thanks for the great demonstration! I may just have to get into splicing now too...

Thank you so much. I never could fully comprehand the dynamics of mobius brummel splice until today.

Smooth smoothy smoothness.

I will probably never make one but I enjoyed watching you make it. Thanks!

You can lock a brummel without unbraiding and rebraiding the line. Same way you make a brummel eye splice. Yah, there is a little bump when you bury the ends...Imagine trying to do it this way with small diameter dyneema. You can also do it without the bump, but sew and whip the crossover. I use deadeyes as part of my shroud cascades between the chainplates and shrouds using lashings; so I know my way works safely and takes minutes not hours to create.

Cool, Herby! But I have to admit I started getting a bit confused at the point where you went to twelve strands and began re-braiding. I'll have to watch this a few more times before I attempt it. 😁

Thanks for this great tutorial Herby. We really appreciate it. Used it today to make a loop to hold a low friction ring to a track car and it turned out great ;). Cheers~

I love love the concept of doing everything with line and knots. In general life from fishing rigs to securing loads I've always loved the pure rope and clever trickery to attach things. So downside to Dyneema is the variable length, that's a pain... your method with the deadeyes and lashings is undoubtably extremely strong but it's not adjustable enough. What about doing your eyelet to eyelet, locked in buried ends setup but make it a few feet short, instead of lashings to set the tension... a truckers hitch, double geared if you want. So far as I understand that mechanical knot is used in transport industry because it's fast to tie, very very strong and able to withstand sudden shocking forces, doesn't compromise the strength of the rope and doesn't slip. In transport rachet straps have taken over because they're even better with great surface area and good friction surface to hold the loads, but, in your case where you're just seeking line tension... maybe? Downside I can think of is that it may not look as sleek and also therefore catch more wind. But you're very clever with rigging, why not some mechanical advantaged knot on all your standing rigging?

Really digging these bonus videos. And thanks once again for the lesson Herb.

You make the complicated seem easy. I'm pretty good with knots and teaching others but this is something I could do. Thanks.

Watching again! Great Instructor !!

That's some advanced stuff, great!

Very useful information as always, thanks Herbie and Maddie!

It would be interesting to see failure break comparison of these and what they replace. The rope to steel cable comparison shows dyema much better but this I’m not aware of a test

Euw...Now I know Why I’m just an armchair Sailor 😜 Fair Winds & Safe Harbor to You 😎

Great video. Super easy to do. Very helpful

Brilliant! Thanks so much for the detailed vid mate!

Nice video. If you mark the 12 strands in different colors and while unravelling you can figure out the paterns. Then you can use a disc similar to Kummihimo Bradiding wheel and rebraid it to a more natural hallow braid. You just have to practice with the weights in the center till you fine tune the braiding to the natural state from the factory.

Listening to this background music makes me feel like I'm in the Mii universe :o)

Excellent loop. I'll try it out.

I fucking did it. Thanks for directions on how to do these splices. You guys rock

AND a great shout out to Sailing ZINGARO (and he mentioned you as his mentor for his standing rigging) .... he showed us the same technique in his standing rigging replacement episode on its late ZINGARO Cat, which by the way was save by Dyneema too .... Thank you for showing us how to create this step in a complete synthetic standing rigging.

Why is this unlisted? It is such a good tutorial!

You’re my personal saviour man. I’m so goi go to re rig with synthetic.... just as soon as I get back from the jester Azores challenge this year 😂😂

Excellent presentation of your very good idea. Thankyou.

That’s a fascinating way to do it. Clearly going to be strong enough even with the bastardized braid in one side of the locked Brummell. Ever used the soft fids from DSplicer? They’ve been a game changer for both double braid and Dyneema splicing. Would love for you to send one of those to the guys at HowNot2Highline for a break strength test. Thanks for sharing.

now I must make my life goal becoming a wizard who can braid 12 strand rope. Just to prove its possible.

Nice work! great thinking

Outstanding

EXCELLENT! THANKS! Ciao

Thanks again..Great video instruction!

Good thinking but the braiding could be smarter. A 6 strand round braid with double strands is not too difficult and gives you a nice, round shape.

Wow, my hat is off to you. I can follow this in my mind all the way but to come up with this, that's something else. I nearly choked when you said just unravel this end and rebraid it. But this looks merely tricky not impossible. Will try it just for the joy of knowing I can do it. Btw, how many tries did it take to perfect this?

blimey amazzzing

Herbie please give me some advice. I have a 1972 Irwin 37 Ketch rig. She has 1/4 cable on the main & 1/8 on the Mizzen. All the standing rigging is trash. I sat here & worked my fingers to the bone to make this ring out of 1/4’ Dyneena. So my thought is to go up to 5/16’ for my deadeyes & stays. Make the stays shorter in order to conserve money as the 5/16 costs a good bit more. Then make the section of wraps from the stay to the deadeye at around 3-4’. Is this acceptable? Any advice you could give me would be Greatly appreciated.

What is the benefit of doing this over making a loop with 3 to 4 wraps of 1/8th inch dyneema inside a cover?

very cool man!

I say let me send you money, you send me the deadeyes

No need to unbraid the line. I have made many of these out of 1 inch and 1 1/8 inch dyneema and used them extensively, some to the point of failure. Never once did my splice ever try to pull out. We call these doughnuts in my industry. I can tell you from experience it takes a hell of a lot of force to break on of these.

Man Herb is smart.

This video did not show up on my subscription feed, only saw it now on my side bar feed.

How did you calculate the shorter tail length, compared to the 72x the diameter? 😁 Edit: We just rewatched it and caught it! Great video, thank you for posting about your process!!

All those soft slings/sausage slings/ round slings,you know how they are finished,they tie an overhand knot.What you see on the outside is nothing like what’s going on in the inside.I have tested tons of these on a test bed,bits hanging out all over the place,just held together by friction.They are just ONE piece of polyester wound round and round 😂😂😂😂😂

Excellent, just a bit 'fiddly' for the beginner!

Amazing instruction. I wonder who Mobius Brummel was?

At 5:22 couldn’t you just splice the tag ends one more time and it’d lock?

Am I correct to guess that the strength of this loop is 400% of rope strength? Since you have at least one “rope” buried inside another, so x2 and it’s a loop, so x2 again, therefore, 400%.

Hey great videos. Just curious why don't the lashings go straight to the chain plate. What's the purpose of the deadeye "middle man"

I vaguely remember a way to invert the loop through the splice, so you don't have to re-brade like you did. Do you know what that method is called? I'm having troubles finding it again. It's been a few years since I had to do it.... Thanks.

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What's your thaught concerning synthetic chainplates? Can they be made from the same material as dynema ( ony in a solid plastic cutting board type form ) and would it be cost effective?

Is there a reason the line can’t be passed thru the body again? Samson indicates line over 1/2” be double lock. Your method surely will not slip.

Great information - what's was the idea for the irritating muzac though? Really disturbing.

Why use a thimble on the end of the deadeye that attaches to the shroud?

I've tried this with 3/8" line. So I bought 3/8" heavy duty thimbles - but they seem too small since the 3/8" line now has a couple loops inside the weave, making its diameter larger. Curious what size thimbles you used for your line.

4 feet, 9mm, americans please just pick a lane....

There has got to be a better way than that. My suggestion is to Sid from the outside to the inside of the Luke and then thread the inside line through itself and then pull the loop through it after pulling the loop spot then thread both ends into the core of the loop. In addition I would paper the Flies sock them and then thread the socks beside each other so as that the dynamic actually rotates around itself three times ensuring the greatest strengths as well as a near perfectly symmetrical rope all the way around. However quite frankly replating a cord is not that hard if you're using a turtshead guide and weights at the end of every line and thinning the brade is a simple matter of cutting out a strand where you need to as you go replating it. Basically I'm saying don't look for a shortcut learn how to do it the right way and you will not have any failures. Beyond that when somebody is inspecting your rigging you don't want them to know where you started and where you ended because it is a planted Mobius Loop with an invisible double core. Everything else is failure waiting to have. Start with five and a quarter times the amount of rope that you're going to need find the center of the Rope and mark off 1/2 of the length of the final link that you want on either side from the center. Manage each cord by wrapping it around lead line and then wrapping the lead line around that cord has a cinch to keep it from unwinding. Now start planting your line over the top of your ring halfway so is that they come together where you will have your lines cross each other and then fit all the way through to the other side Mark each line as to where you want to have it cut cut it and fit it at that point unless it is a shortcut at which point in time Market fit it send the feed back into the center and passed pull the line all the way through headed at that point and then stretch the line back to the core do not worry about plating because you're only attempting to get that line back to the core of the loop continue this process sending all of the lines back to the core of the loop until you have sent each side all the way around and you have ran out of cords to feed back into the core. Now all of the lines are buried in the core and the entire Loop is as strong as it can possibly be and nobody knows where you started or where you finished as your entire Loop is exactly the same diameter and density all the way around not to mention all of your tips are buried in the core. For maximum strength you can inject latex into the core of the loop to help hold the tips from slipping as a milkweed latex and a little bit of urine will ensure that you have a beautiful latex at which point in time you lay your rings out in the sun on aluminum foil and bake them creating a rubber core rosin that will be three socks and uv-guarded. If anybody knows how to make a stronger Mobius Loop than that they are one damn fine genius.

Why can't you just go from thimbled eye splice to a shackle? With space for the deadeye loops between them? This seems superfluous.

Where do you get your tools

Why not just make a double ended section with brummel splices around thimbles on each?

12 strand braid is not that deferent from how you braided the 4 stand. Start with the outside strands and work your way in. Look up how to braid a 550 cord bullwhip and will see if pretty easy. I've made one before and once you learn the groove it is fast and easy.

Really, you invented the deadeye splice?

Nice. But please get rid of the background sounds, trying to think here!!!😆😎

Another style of dyneema loop using multiple passes of smaller line inside a dyneema sheath: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VFN7HPoMwlk.html

Love your vids but stop wasting time and creatimg confusion by showimg what not to do.

Overly complex and confusing. "This one" and "That one" over on this side and that one over there. The line is the same color and you're flipping it over and back and forth. Why not try labeling the parts of the line as A and B or something so people can at least try and follow the explanation. Better tutorials are out there

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