There are various ways to bring the tail's strands into the
SPart, so play around with that. It might entail some
deviation from strict alternation of things in order to get
the more un-fork-like joint. (Or you could just wrap some
whipping/parceling over it all.
)
For smoother-looking splices, the "sailor's" wrapping
--i.e. where one strand wraps around one other, only,
not over/under/over ... the other three-- works well,
and then the per-strand taper --where one strand stops
at N tucks, then next at N+1, and the 3rd at N+1--
gives a nice tapering w/o bother of trinning yarns from
strands.
Beyond this, is it the "Flemmish eye" in which one opens
ALL of the eye part into strands with one going around
the opposite direction to the other two, and then being
re-set into the lay (into the groove it had occupied)
and then you have a new set of tucking to consider.
Have fun!
(for further fun, one can try using separate material
for the eye, splicing thus this short extra piece into
the end of the main rope (maybe to get something
flatter or rougher-tougher to do eye work,
or just to have an excuse to further rope play!
(E.g., I've had found-ropes where much of one end
has become unlaid and doesn't re-lay agreeably,
so I've *braided* that in the over-under back'n'forth
one might do pony tails e.g., which will give a more
*flat* eye, kinder against one's hand (like webbing),
and ... then comes tucking. In THIS case, it's more
the departure of the eye strands from the SPart that
raises issues, IMO, than the resultant tucking back
into the lay.)
--dl*
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