horse hair lanyard

[CWendling]

Customer wants a horsehair lanyard on their knife. Been trying to decide how to do it, and looking for suggestions from anyone who has. I was thinking: bend the hair through the lanyard hole, run a wooden bead over that and fill the bead with hot glue or maybe jb kwik to bond the hair/bead in place. If i knew how, a braided bead would probably work, but i dont know how to braid leather and dont really have the time to do so. Any other ideas?

 

[Hengelo_77]

I've never done it but I'd run it trough the hole so you have two equil long strains, then braid like a girls pony tail and think of a good way to ty it off.
Maybe a piece of string saturated in epoxy

 

[A.McPherson]

You could twist it up cordage style. That will get you something that looks like rope. It'll have a loop at one end just from twisting it and you'll only have to figure out what to do with one end...

This video shows the basics of how it's done.

The only difference between the video and what you actually want to do is to just bend the horse hair in half to start your twist, instead of tying them together.

 

[Horsewright]

Get ya some silver wire from a bead or jewelry/crafts store. Three or four wraps around the hair after ya bent it in half in the lanyard hole would make a nice deal. Don't totally give up on the leather braided knot. A Spanish Ring Knot of one pass would take ya about 5 minutes to learn and would work too instead of the silver wire. My wife learned how to do one off of YouTube last night for another project. Lots of videos and quick and easy.