Mike, I followed your directions and it worked great. Now if I could get my fingers apart ;).
I think it looks fine with just the webbing so I'm not going to coat it or try shrink tube. BTW the only shrink tube I could find around here was at Radio Shack and you had to buy an assortment of colors and sizes for 7 bucks........not worth it for two joints.
Thanks to all for the help.

Ian

: mark the bungee where you want the ends. I used a dot of white out.
: stretch the bungee and apply CA to a 1" section centered at
: the mark
: spray the wetted CA area with CA accelerant
: release tension on the bungee
: cut the bungee at the mark. I used a fine toothed hobby saw for a
: clean cut.
: (this is all just to reduce the diameter of the bungee ends. Also
: good for threading an end through any small hole.)
: I used a 1" long piece of the 1" wide webbing strap I had
: left over from the seat back strap for the joiner. (note: it is
: fairly thin webbing strap)
: slightly melt the ends of the webbing strap to stop any fraying
: Sting your bungee though the loops on deck
: Clamp off the bungee somehow so you can touch the ends of the
: bungee without tension
: add a drop of CA to one end of the bungee
: touch it to the other end of the bungee and spray with CA
: accellerant (this kind of holds things in place for the next
: step)
: Take the 1" square webbing strap and wrap it around the
: splice. (the length should be just enough so that the ends meet
: flush without overlap)
: It's easier to CA just one edge first, then keep rolling it around
: and applying CA
: Apply rolling pressure with some wax paper between your fingers and
: the bungee.
: soak the joint in CA and hit it with CA accelerant.
: (I though about making a 2 piece wood clamp that would help make
: this procces easier but it took the lazy route.
: I also could not find any heat shrink around the 3/8" size
: needed, and 1/4" just didn't quite fit over the joint so I
: painted on about 3 coats of Plasti-dip. I think the liquid
: electrical tape is the same.

: I had first tried the method of peeling back the outer webbing of
: one of the bungee ends in hopes to roll that back over onto the
: adjoining end and CA'ing, but it would just get too unraveled
: for me. I might have to practice a bit with that method as it
: would leave you with a thinner result.

: I had also thought about using a 1/4" thin walled Carbon Fiber
: tube as a ferrule. Could be as little as 1/2" long. I think
: if you just shoved the reduced bungee ends into it and applied
: CA it would hold good. A little heat shrink over and call it
: good. Again I didn't have any Carbon Fiber tube handy.