Floating Lanyard????

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I tried making a lanyard with a fishing float at the end, filled up my sink and dropped my spyderco in. Sank like a rock. I've googled floating lanyard, and get hits on lanyards for glasses and vests etc.. etc... but none made for knives.
I had a nightmare about accidentally dropping one of my knives of the side of a boat or peir. So thats what started my experiment. Is there any that are made for knives that anybody knows of. Thanks in advance.

-frank
 
The knife weighed more than the weight of the water displaced by the "float." Bigger "float" orrrrr, attach it to you.
 
Ok, off topic, kind of, but made me laugh.

Friend of mine had a new $250 carbon fiber fishing rod. Light, but doesn't float. He drops it off the side of the boat accidentally. As he watches it slowly sink down, he thinks "I'll be damned if I'm going to lose my expensive new rod because I don't want to get wet!" He dives off the boat, swims down, grabs rod, returns to boat, a hero.

A hero with a dead $500 cell phone.
 
Thought about a bigger float. Having to tuck in the cord attached so it wont just be dangling would probably get old quick. I was just thinking maybe someone has heard of or uses something like a floating lanyard.
 
Friend of mine had a new $250 carbon fiber fishing rod. Light, but doesn't float. He drops it off the side of the boat accidentally. As he watches it slowly sink down, he thinks "I'll be damned if I'm going to lose my expensive new rod because I don't want to get wet!" He dives off the boat, swims down, grabs rod, returns to boat, a hero.

A hero with a dead $500 cell phone.
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You see thats what I don't want have to do, but I will.
 
Any polypro lanyard will float - until something like a knife sinks it. Nothing generally available will do better at keeping your knife from sinking than a light container of air OF SUFFICIENT SIZE. Physics. Google "displacement" and look for the Wikki article. A cord as long as the water is deep will also work if attached to any "float," but that seems clumsy.
 
Would still be on the clumsy side but what about attaching a "normal" lanyard to the retractable little cables fly-fishers use? If you drop it you don't loose it. Otherwise your laynard is going to have to displace at least as much as you knife displaces....that's gonna be a big ol laynard...and if there's a current you still "up a creek" (I crack myself up sometimes)
 
try the white trash way, tie the lanyard to your belt. along with your bottle opener.
 
panch0 said:
I tried making a lanyard with a fishing float
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A fishing float is made to go under the water when there is a pull from a fish.
It will not support a knife!

Look in sailing supplies for a small buoy type float for personal equipment.
You will find what you are looking for.
 
DRider said:
Ok, off topic, kind of, but made me laugh.

Friend of mine had a new $250 carbon fiber fishing rod. Light, but doesn't float. He drops it off the side of the boat accidentally. As he watches it slowly sink down, he thinks "I'll be damned if I'm going to lose my expensive new rod because I don't want to get wet!" He dives off the boat, swims down, grabs rod, returns to boat, a hero.

A hero with a dead $500 cell phone.
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He did the right thing. You can't catch fish with a cellphone.:D:thumbup:


Back on topic: I've seen keyrings with a big cork attached to keep them afloat. Could work with a small knife as well!

Kind regards,

Jos
 
Yep, you need to displace enough air that the water displaced weighs more than the knife.

What kind of knife are you trying to float? If your Spyderco has metal liners, etc, it's a heck of a lot harder. Switch over to one of the small Salt series knives and you'll have a lighter knife that has the bonus of being rustproof.

Or, if your knife is light enough, you could get a water-activated inflating Key Buoy. http://www.davisnet.com/marine/products/marine_product.asp?pnum=00530
 
DRider said:
Ok, off topic, kind of, but made me laugh.

Friend of mine had a new $250 carbon fiber fishing rod. Light, but doesn't float. He drops it off the side of the boat accidentally. As he watches it slowly sink down, he thinks "I'll be damned if I'm going to lose my expensive new rod because I don't want to get wet!" He dives off the boat, swims down, grabs rod, returns to boat, a hero.

A hero with a dead $500 cell phone.
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hahahaha!!
 
What kind of knife are you trying to float? If your Spyderco has metal liners, etc, it's a heck of a lot harder. Switch over to one of the small Salt series knives and you'll have a lighter knife that has the bonus of being rustproof.
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It is a Salt 1
 
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