Show Us Your Knot Tying

[paracordist]

7/8" steel bearing in the center.

mine is very similar; 1" bearing:

[Twat]

That is seriously a good idea... holy crap. I love it.

[jeverettk]

Hey man, your work looks great to me!

I enjoy knotting, though most of my smaller knives don't have fobs.

Here are some silly things I've done for the heck of it:

Well, just for the heck of it AND it can sure be handy to always have a length of paracord around.

[Hard H2O]

Paracord woven sling on a Weatherby Vanguard. Color of cord is ACU. Used a bit less than 100 feet.

[paracordist]

This lanyard consists entirely of two 10' strands of paracord with the exception of the small blue turks head just above the bottom knot. First, the two strands are doubled and the 4 strand round braid is made in a line to about 25". Then it is folded over and one of the four strands is forced through a bight in the end of the round braid, bringing them together to form the main neck loop resulting in 4 working strands (thanks kcardwell!). The 4 strands are used in the manrope knot; next is the all yellow knot around a core of the two blue strands (#790 "four-lead diamond knot" p. 142 of the Ashley Book of knots: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEAixlTHgWM)
Finally, another manrope knot (how to in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyoLpz5IvtI)!
This was a lot of work! The skull is cool, and quite large and heavy; I decided to do this lanyard with intact paracord strands. Yes, this results in a pretty substantial sized piece of work, but this skull piece justifies it IMO.

[crm3137]

How did you attach the hair clips to the sheath? That's brilliant right there, father's get it.

It looks like you have a knot for a sliding bead on your lanyard, a neat detail; can you elaborate on this for me? Thanks.

[Hard H2O]

I found out that I should have stuck with paracord for my second sling.

I found some nicely colored poly cord at Fleet Farm. I started a new sling a bit longer than the first.

The jig I am using is a length of PVC tube with screw eyes at the ends to attach the sling swivels to.

I got pretty far into the process and noticed that the poly wasn't stretching like the paracord. It was actually putting a bit of force on the screw eyes.

Then I noticed some abraded and maybe melted spots in the weave. It seems that if I pull the poly through the weave to fast it got a bit hot.

I was almost done and one of the eyes pulled out. I went ahead and finished it.

Guess I will have to look at some online sources for paracord.

[okbow68]

mine is very similar; 1" bearing:

I really like that looks nice. I havent made myself one but made my daughter a keychain with 7/8" bearing in a monkey's fist then going into about a 6" long solomon bar.

[paracordist]

I really like that looks nice. I havent made myself one but made my daughter a keychain with 7/8" bearing in a monkey's fist then going into about a 6" long solomon bar.

sounds cool okbow!

[okbow68]

Thanks not sure if she likes it or not, oh well.

[Stormdrane]

I added a two bight turks head knot(13L2B), with about 15 ft of 2mm cord, to the kydex sheath of this Horan Knives Sub-Q Tanto. The crossings show on both sides and I lined up the cord along the edges of the sheath. There may be enough room with the contour of the sheath to tuck a small firesteel underneath...

[paracordist]

I added a two bight turks head knot(13L2B), with about 15 ft of 2mm cord, to the kydex sheath of this Horan Knives Sub-Q Tanto. The crossings show on both sides and I lined up the cord along the edges of the sheath. There may be enough room with the contour of the sheath to tuck a small firesteel underneath...

thats great storm; whats that on the handle of the knife?

Have not seen you "around" in a bit, glad to see more of your great stuff.

[Stormdrane]

thats great storm; whats that on the handle of the knife?

Have not seen you "around" in a bit, glad to see more of your great stuff.

The knife handle wrap/grip has a Japanese style wrap over cord, done by Tim Horan. You can find some tutorials on that style of knife/sword handle wrapping on YouTube, by putting 'tsukamaki' in search on google or youtube. Here's an example: Tsuka-Maki, Basic ito wrapping tutorial.

[paracordist]

love it. thanks for link.

The knife handle wrap/grip has a Japanese style wrap over cord, done by Tim Horan. You can find some tutorials on that style of knife/sword handle wrapping on YouTube, by putting 'tsukamaki' in search on google or youtube. Here's an example: Tsuka-Maki, Basic ito wrapping tutorial.

[paracordist]

This knife lanyard went to a friend in Germany who just sent me back the pics. not sure who the knife maker is, I'm waiting to hear back from him - but it sure looks nice!
This lanyard has a adjustable thumb thong (via paracord bead).

[paracordist]

Here's what I learned about the knife and sheath from the owner:
"This is a semi self made bushcraft knife, bought the blank rough and unfinished, polished it, sharpened it, put desert ironwood handles on it. The belt loop material is just standard mil spec 1.5" webbing in OD, the sheath is by "the God of sheaths from the Netherlands" Martin Swinkel."

[Stormdrane]

Here's what I learned about the knife and sheath from the owner:
"This is a semi self made bushcraft knife, bought the blank rough and unfinished, polished it, sharpened it, put desert ironwood handles on it. The belt loop material is just standard mil spec 1.5" webbing in OD, the sheath is by "the God of sheaths from the Netherlands" Martin Swinkel."

A nice looking knife, sheath, & lanyard.



This is a somewhat simple(or not) adjustable/extendable paracord wrist lanyard. At first, it looks like a couple of two strand lanyard knots finished with a scaffold knot/multiple overhand sliding knot, but instead are a couple of Celtic Button Knots with the adjustable loop cord going through the center of them, so the knots are tied in place along a single length of paracord, on opposite sides of the loop, hard to explain, but it works...





Link --> Demonstration video

[Stormdrane]

Just revisiting the 'cross knot' that I added an instructable and video slideshow for....

[Menace]

Storm, I'm kind of interested in that knife, any details?

[Stormdrane]

Storm, I'm kind of interested in that knife, any details?

It's an 'EDGE Tactical One-Hander', that I got from the Edgeco catalog 10+ years ago, that's long since gone out of business. The bugger is so hard to open/close that it takes me two hands, lol... When I bought it, I didn't know it was the same as the AG Russell one-hand design, which is no doubt a better knife, and actually cost less than what I paid for the skeletonized 'seconds' version that I have.

Last year at the Blade Show, I asked at the AG Russell booth if they were familiar the EGDE knife, but the person I spoke to wasn't familiar with it, so I don't know if it was and 'authorized' version or knockoff...