4-469: A fid is a conical tool traditionally made of wood or bone, used to work with rope and canvas. FID or fid may also refer to: Fid A fid is a conical tool traditionally made of wood or bone . It is used to work with rope and canvas in marlinespike seamanship . A fid differs from a marlinspike in material and purposes. A marlinspike is used in working with wire rope, natural and synthetic lines, may be used to open shackles, and
8-499: Is 1 ⁄ 3 a fid length and a long fid is 2 ⁄ 3 the overall fid length. Modern major rope manufacturers such as Yale Cordage , New England Ropes, and Samson Rope Technologies each have full sets of published splicing directions available on their websites. Typically, all splice directions measurements use fid-length as the unit of measurement. Below is a chart that shows exact measurements of full fid lengths, short fid lengths, and long fid lengths, using 21 times
12-440: Is made of metal. A fid is used to hold open knots and holes in canvas, and to separate the "lays" (or strands) of synthetic or natural rope for splicing . A variation of the fid, the gripfid , is used for ply-split braiding . The gripfid has a jamming cleat to pull a cord back through the cord split by the fid's point. Modern fids are typically made of aluminum , steel , or plastic . In addition to holding rope open to assist
16-410: The creation of a rope splice, modern push fids have markings for precise measurements in a variety of sizes of rope. The length of these fids is typically 21 or 22 times the diameter of rope to be spliced. A one-half-inch (12.7 mm) diameter rope would have any accompanying fid 10.5–11 in (266.7–279.4 mm) in length with hash-marks denoting the long and short fid measurements. A short fid
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