There’s plenty of workshop porn in the crafting thread - you just gotta look for it:
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Yes, although you see less and less 3-strand rope these days. I did have occasion to splice some 1/2" (12mm) polypropylene last year, and used the larger of the wood fids. The tapered marlinespike is too small for most common sizes of rope.
Not really, if I understand you. Marlinespikes are traditionally used for splicing wire rope, which I have never done and don’t see myself doing in the future. The other use for them is to unpick jammed knots, which is why I keep them handy. After being under load for a season, even knots that aren’t supposed to jam can become impossible to undo with just fingers.
I also use the tapered spike to poke a hole in dyneema rope to allow an end to pass through.
High-modulus polyethylene (HMPE) or Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMW). I like working with it. Splices are easy and neat. I replaced the steel lifelines on my boat a few years ago, which took twenty splices but saved me hundreds of dollars even when I had to buy different end hardware.
And if one is attached to a corner of a flapping sail, It won’t knock anyone’s teeth out.
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