We always made our splicing look good enough that they didnt worry us on the nit picky stuff like channel locks. And they appreciated that I guess. We even wore harnesses and hardhats sometimes back then too. HaHa And when a qc guy told me "that our companies splicing was the best he'd seen, BUT that we wouldn't do work he wouldn't find something to gig." well you guessed it we gave a two weeks notice and left. And thats for sure I would do it again. I have alot of pride in my work, as I hope all of you do too.Not to be insulting to you, but I took that 1st comment as me being called a rookie, which I am far from. But good luck to you patriot and all the rest.
