Cord-wrapped handles?

If you really wanted a cord wrapped handle that would be sealed, you could dip it in some of the tool handle dip http://www.walmart.com/ip/Performix...asti-Dip-Multipurpose-Rubber-Coating/21015330. Should seal, and it is not so tough that it would make the cord useless...

I put a paracord wrap on a kitchen knife that lost a scale (after I removed the opposing scale). My wife prefers that to the handles on the other knives (JA Henkels). It is not sealed and has yet to pick up any smell from anything that has been cut (it is our 8" chef's knife, so it is a general use knife).

All of my hunting knives have real handles and I really don't get the wrap craze. If you really need the cord in an emergency, then you suddenly don't have a comfortable(ish) handle for your knife. Just like people talking about replacing their boot laces with paracord "just in case." Great, I've got a few feet of cord, but now my boots keep falling off!

I do have one other knife with a paracord handle, but I have a plan to put some real scales on it "some time in the future." Any amount of batoning kills my hand, and one wayward strike on the handle is sufficient to cut the cord and make the handle REALLY suck...
 
I have no idea. I like my izula better with the wrap I have on it, but that cord is useless for anything else at this point. I wouldn't want a cord wrap on a larger knife, I think the izula is the practical limit for that method. Given that Japanese swords had cotton webbing wrap, I figure they knew what they were doing, and the handle was intended to be replaced completely. So I guess its a both/ and sort of thing.
 
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