handle rewrap

[w feazell]

i was over at the TAD site and saw that they had various colors of paracord avaliable. i was trying to picture what a Strider would look like with a black and green wrapped handle. i forget whether the process used one continous piece of cord or two. i guess you could splice a piece of black and green together and do the wrap.

 

[Nismo]

I think you start with 1 long cord and start wrapping in the middle until the 2 ends meet at the bottom

 

[Mick Strider]

Have Joe Estrada post a pic of his two tone axe….

 

[MOLEXEY]

Joe's axe is damn cool. The black/tan two tone wrap looks great. He's supposed to be working on pics as we speak. I'd like to do mine like that but I don't have the balls to cut the wrap off and do it myself. That long handle has to be a chore to wrap.

MO

 

[Evolute]

Molexey,

I've tried doing a Strider-style handle wrap. (Instructions here: http://www.striderknives.com/html/handlewrapping.html ) Despite the fact that there seems to be a step missing, unexplained in the middle to figure out on your own, doing one of these handle wraps is easy. Time consuming (20-40 minutes, first time), but straightforward and simple. It may take you a couple tries before you get everything perfectly even and tight.

It's worth doing. The handle wrap on the Strider knives is ingenious (well done, Mick and Duane), and you really need to try it to fully appreciate its cleverness. It will also open up options like changing colors, changing cord size to suit your particular needs, and doing variations (handle wrap with braided D-guard and coil knot end, for example).

Give it a try, Mo. You can do it!

 

[MOLEXEY]

I've done the wrap. I'm just not ready for the workout involved in wrapping a foot of axe handle


MO

 

[freeman4ever]

Originally posted by Evolute
Despite the fact that there seems to be a step missing, unexplained in the middle to figure out on your own, doing one of these handle wraps is easy.

YES! What is that "missing step"? There looks to be an "extra" strand of paracord there but I am not certain.

Glad you brought it up...I thought I was seeing things.