I can see where the 3-strands would just be stiffer than the braided brothers. My last two fliplines were Velocity and just this last week, Blaze. The Blaze is limp like a fish noodle. I've traditionally used wirecores and enjoy the better flipping control and feeling of absolute strength and integrity (and, yea, the weight).
The Velocity was great, integrated with the micrograb, it was delicious, but the eye terminations were too long and the length was about 10 cm too long, but otherwise it was impressive for an 11 mm rope flipline.
The Blaze, I put tube webbing on the eyes, made it exact to length, made the terminal biner captive. Awesome performance, except for that it's limp as a whistle. It's perfect, but I really, really prefer something with some stiffness, like OSB's 3-strand. I'm married to 11 mm from here on out. 13 mm fliplines are a thing of the past. Always being tied in twice while making any cut is standard, dedicated climbing behavior ( I
still prefer a wirecore)
Streyken, your flipline is an excellent entry into the
Arboristsite School of Lanyardogenics.
Copy and paste
this:
http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?p=535845#post535845
and send it to the makers of your fully excellent wirecore trawler line.
That'll pop them right here to this post
Then we can talk about creating the next generation wirecore flipline.
This is so much fun, molding other people's great ideas into a product that would work for Arborists.