How to do a Para Cord Wrap?

[12lbchiwawa]

I'm new to the forums and this is probably been ask many times, but is there a good tutorial about handle wraping or general para cord craft?

 

[Buck268]

Well, I had some paracord (commercial grade, probably not true 550# paracord) lieing around teh other night and was bored, so I wrapped up my "undercover" boot knife (forget the brand or anything, but it says UnderCover - UC1263 Stainless Steel on the blade). Turned out real nice, I just kinda used the wraps to secure the ends in place, and knotted the end when I was getting close to done, ran it back down and through the lanyard hole, tied it off and used to excess to make a little FOB...

BTW, anybody know what knife this is? Steel is fairly hard to hone and has developed little rust speckles, even with a light coat of hoppes #9 (nylon sheath I think rubbed it off) and stored in my ammo can (has descanters in it)...

 

[stevetexas]

I went to this place called Google and guess what??????

http://www.valorcorp.com/products/product.asp?root_id=17&cat_id=489&item=4171263

Steve

 

[egroeg555]

Well, I've never wrapped a handle before, but I consider myself pretty handy with rope. So, I'll give you some ideas.
- I believe some people just glue the cord on. I hear gorilla glue works.
http://www.throwzini.com/cord_wrapping.html
- This site shows a method to do a double layer wrap. You could use either one by itself also, but the first one would need to be ended. One way of doing this would be to loosen, tuck, tighten such that the last end is tucked under just like the end you started with. This may prove difficult to get tight enough. if you had a hole somewhere you could tie it off too (maybe using a small stopper knot), that would work also or perhaps a slide grip hitch could also work.
For the second method, they use this as the top wrap, you should be able to do this one independently, by itself. Also, you wouldn't necessarily need to start in a hole like they did. My guess is that if the wrap is done tight enough it shouldn't slip.
Also, if I were wrapping a knife, I'd put it in a clamp. That way I could have 2 hands free to make the wrapping really tight.

let me know if you want further explanation.


****Edit*****
I just found a couple more sites
http://www.m4040.com/Knifemaking/cordwrap.htm
http://trainingblades.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=28

The first one uses the first method I mentioned and the second gets a pretty cool effect by going down the handle with both ends and making one twist per side.

 

[Jos]

Check the Strider knives website. They have a section called "rewrap your handle".

 

[SPATHA]

http://www.striderknives.com/html/handlewrapping.html

here you go

 

[El_Toro]

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[richinva]

And one from Mr. Atwood..............

http://www.phlaunt.com/atwoodknives/16570807.php

 

[12lbchiwawa]

Thanks for the info. I'll try out some of the techniques