Buck Strider ... lanyards anyone?

[Mark W Douglas]

 

[folsom]

Well, I don't have a lanyard on my Strider, but I took the clip off my TacLite and put a lanyard on it...

 

[Joe Houser]

Thats a nice bunch of knots! I have always wanted to learn how to do that.
Great work.

 

[folsom]

Originally posted by Joe Houser
Thats a nice bunch of knots! I have always wanted to learn how to do that.
Great work.

Aw, twern't nothin'... That TacLite has (from the knife) a knife lanyard knot, a few sections of zig-zag braid, and a doubled knife lanyard knot. The k-l knot and the zigzag braid are animated on the fifty-knots section of my knotting site. The doubled knife lanyard knot just goes around a second time, an exercise left for the reader

This bigsky:

has an anchor bend attaching to the hole, followed by a knife-lanyard knot, a hand loop formed by two three strand braids each tied in a single strand , a doubled k-l knot, a two stand mathew-walker, and finally a single k-l.

If you check my animations, you can do these easily enough. For you, Joe, I'll work out a special trade -- I'll tie lanyards in your knives, in trade for knives for me to tie lanyards in for myself!

 

[spartan_ajax]

COOL!

 

[folsom]

Fooling around new years day and came up with this on a Buck 450

which is a four strand braid, a turkshead covering the addition of another two strands, a six strand braid, and a star knot ending it.

 

[Don Luis]

Sorry I don´t have pics, I have drilled the pommel in two of my fixed blade bucks to put lanyards on them and have a whole bunch of knives with fancy lanyards.

It´s nice to see others who like knives and tie knots, I usually just do Mathew Walkers to start and finish with a lanyard knot.

Crown sennits, diamond knots and starknots make nice lanyards (somewhat like miniature bellropes). must be done with fine cord or they are much too big. I don´t like using a starknot at the end since I feel it tends to get loose with time, a starknot followed by a tack knot works fine, to get more fancy use a little lump.

In fixed blades with no lanyard hole I can tie a tight turkshead, pull the ends out and do the lanyard with them.

Happy new year to all.