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anyone know an easy way to do this? water knots with sewn tails?
how much webbing will I need? I want to make 2 6 steppers.

I followed http://www.climbing.com/print/techtips/ttaid216/ for mine and it worked pretty well.

I just spent the last half hour planning these mofos out, and I've got a pretty good idea of what to do, and it'll be less than $20 for both of 'em! only problem is I don't want to spend 15$ each on daisy chains, can you use just one if you get it long enough?

oh, I'm 6'6" too, I think I'll need two daisies...

finished the first aider, went out this morning and bought 40 feet of 1" webbing, worked perfectly!

does ducttape weaken webbing? I'm going to wrap high wear areas in something protective. should I use something else?
also, total cost was $17.50

Hey, good work with the ingenuity.

I learned to aid with tied 1" webbing aiders. Didn't upgrade for couple years. I now have bone spurs on the sides of both feet from those knots digging in for about 80 pitches. You see what i mean as soon as you go out.

Wear burly shoes (heavy boots) to learn, and get yourself some real aiders quickly if you decide you dig aid. Fish ladder style killer and affordable.

finished the second, that was a fun little project, if anyone wants to go to index next weekend, let me know, I want to do some aiding!!!

tried them out in my local gym, worked great, also, aid soloed with a grigri. borrowed a easy daisy, I realized why you would quickly want a second daisy for harder aid, leaning out to clip the next bolt on my improvised fifi left me feeling a little exposed.

also, have a quick question for you aid soloers out there: a grigri will catch an inverted fall right? should you wear a chest harness and run the rope through that? I don't plan on solo aiding now, but eventually I might progress to that level, it sounds cool, I just want to make sure my current setup is safe.

got some funny questions "so aid climbing is like for rescuing people?" "A.I.D.? what is that an acronym for?"

I added a spreader bar to mine, so they're actually really easy to step up in, plus they were $20. if I make another pair I'll get some high strength thread and sew them up so they're lighter and easier to deal with.
anyone know where to get metolious easy daisies for less than $25 each? I don't want to spend more than twice as much on daisies as I did on aiders...