a is then inserted back into the rope structure 140 at a new strand insert point 154 at the first splice location 142 the selected strand 150 a is woven tucked braided or otherwise arranged along a new strand path 156 from the first splice location 142 to the first cut region 148 a as further shown in fig1 as shown in fig1 a bridge portion 160 a of the strand 150 a crosses over from the second splice location 144 to the first splice location 142 and the strand 150 a lies in a new strand location 162 a strand free end 164 a of the strand 150 a is extracted from the rope structure 140 at the first cut region 148 a the process depicted in fig8 11 is repeated until a desired number of strands have been used to form the eye splice as shown in fig1 typically half of the strands forming the original rope structure are removed and used to form the splice as described herein the example depicted in fig8 12 depicts the formation of an eye splice in a twelve strand braided rope so six strand cut regions 148 a 148 b 148 c 148 d 148 e and 148 f and six strand free ends 164 a 164 b 164 c 164 d 164 e and 164 f are defined one for each of the strands 150 a 150 b 150 c 150 d 150 e and 150 f fig1 also shows that the example strand cut regions.