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After posting my paracord wrapped chopper, I had a request on a different forum about a tut on wrapping like that. I went ahead and took some photos when wrapping this handle. So I figured I would post it here too.
You need - paracord (2 colors) - multi tool (or a knife, a poky thing, and pliers) - ruler - lighter - and knife to be wrapped (on the knife, you need a hole drilled where you want the wrap to begin, and where you want it to end)
Cut the cord to the length you want, I used 4' of each color, and that was almost perfect. Just be sure you overestimate, it's easy to cut off cord, but hard to add it.
Gut the cord, just make sure any melted ends are cut, and pull out those inner strands, you want it to lie flat.
push one end of each cord through the front hole, you want these ends to be on the inside of the handle. As in, if you hold the knif in your hand, the ends should be where your fingers are, not your palm.
With a drop of superglue, glue the ends down and press them flat
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Don't press them flat with your fingers.
And something I forgot to mention, if the blade is sharp, put something on it to keep from cutting yourself. I use ducttape.
Now pull the long ends of the cord around either side of the tang, make sure to pull them tight. the photo should help.
When you pull them over, the black should be under the orange, pull it over the orange, and under again, in a basic shoe tieing knot.
Flip the knife and repeat.
keep flipping and repeating, make sure to pull everything tight.
When I'm handle wrapping, or any other long but kind of boring type of task, I'll usually have some kind of quality entertainment playing.
When you reach the end hole, you should have both cords on the same side, but one should be closer to the hole than the other. In this case it was black, so black went through the hole on the side it was on, and orange looped around and came through the other side.
Tie a knot right at the tail, and end it how you want. On chopper knives, I'd end it in a lanyard, for this, I would typically put on some kind of bead, then tie it off at like 3 inches out. But I don't have any cool beads right now, so I haven't decided how I'll end it.
I'll do the resin coat today, and post pics of that. Then pics of the finished knife as soon as it's done.
Stephen
You need - paracord (2 colors) - multi tool (or a knife, a poky thing, and pliers) - ruler - lighter - and knife to be wrapped (on the knife, you need a hole drilled where you want the wrap to begin, and where you want it to end)
Cut the cord to the length you want, I used 4' of each color, and that was almost perfect. Just be sure you overestimate, it's easy to cut off cord, but hard to add it.
Gut the cord, just make sure any melted ends are cut, and pull out those inner strands, you want it to lie flat.
push one end of each cord through the front hole, you want these ends to be on the inside of the handle. As in, if you hold the knif in your hand, the ends should be where your fingers are, not your palm.
With a drop of superglue, glue the ends down and press them flat
[/quote]
Don't press them flat with your fingers.
And something I forgot to mention, if the blade is sharp, put something on it to keep from cutting yourself. I use ducttape.
Now pull the long ends of the cord around either side of the tang, make sure to pull them tight. the photo should help.
When you pull them over, the black should be under the orange, pull it over the orange, and under again, in a basic shoe tieing knot.
Flip the knife and repeat.
keep flipping and repeating, make sure to pull everything tight.
When I'm handle wrapping, or any other long but kind of boring type of task, I'll usually have some kind of quality entertainment playing.
When you reach the end hole, you should have both cords on the same side, but one should be closer to the hole than the other. In this case it was black, so black went through the hole on the side it was on, and orange looped around and came through the other side.
Tie a knot right at the tail, and end it how you want. On chopper knives, I'd end it in a lanyard, for this, I would typically put on some kind of bead, then tie it off at like 3 inches out. But I don't have any cool beads right now, so I haven't decided how I'll end it.
I'll do the resin coat today, and post pics of that. Then pics of the finished knife as soon as it's done.
Stephen
