Hi Oceanplats,
If you are speaking of "who plies" wire rope our own PAB master rigger, Jose, splices modern rigging wire as if it were soft noodle and I make a good mess from old and used wire salvaged from the logging woods up to 1" diameter. Jose has offered fine tutorials at KHWW and in Knot News and I offered up an expedient eye splice tutorial in Knotting Matters. Most of us work with wire when we need to but we look forward to some tutorials from someone who has "done all". Big wire rope is "free" where I live so I needed to learn to use salvaged wire rope (which you know is workhardened to the point of being very brittle). I often use 3/4 for as task of 1/8 because one is free and the other is costly. I think you and I have been at other posts but I did not realize you were "into" wire and I look for all the help I can get! I've got some 1.5" that looks like a water pipe. As soon as you try to alter the lay it wants to shatter. This was not sweged to this form at the factory but "worn to form" in use.
Some posts ago I was taken to task for being harsh with new posters. As I reread this post it looked as if I were doing it again... but I really don't intend that. When I quoted you as "done all" that I may have seemed sarcastic but that was not my intent in any way. There are many folks who have "done all" or "been there done that" and these are the people I hope to learn from.. not the people I would ever insult.