 Probably you will not be as impressed as I am, but I have successfully mastered (or at least, accomplished) end-to-end splicing of braided line. Without a fid, just a wire coat hanger, some e-tape, and a lot of patience. Yay.
The advice is to practice on a piece of line you don't care about before attempting to do this "for real", and that's good advice which I did not take. There is a line on my C-15 half unspliced waiting for me to go back and fix. But now I think I can.
Onward!
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