Lanyards. Yes? No? Pics?

I love lanyards! I think they look cool and are also very functional.

It's weird, I think skulls are super tacky but for some reason I love and want to buy starlingear beads.

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I'll only go for a lanyard on a small knife that I just drop in my pocket. Even then I still have never really like them a whole lot. They get in the way in my opinion. They do help with grip but I just don't care for them.
 
I don't normally put lanyards on, but the Dark Elder God told me to put one on my Dogfish:

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I can only see putting a lanyard on a knife i i can put it around my wrist, in which case they are very useful, for skinners, choppers. cant really think of any other good reason. but maybe in the vast knife world there is something im not thinking of. but they do look good.
 
RemyKaze said:
I think lanyards are fine on fixed blades as your hand could get tired from hard use and certain knives could fly from your grip. On folding knives, they look pretty ridiculous. It's an ornamentation fad that will burn out with time. Kinda looks like all those charms young girls put on their cell phones. Also it further complicates drawing a knife while at the same time making it more likely to be accidentally pulled from your pocket. Pure nonsense, but everyone has to do what everyone else is doing, right? I bet traditional knife lovers have such a huge laugh over stuff like this.
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I are a bad photographer. Here is the paracord "lanyard" on my Grip, plus a few of the different survival bracelets I have made.

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I have to eventually learn to use the camera that I have and then learn how to take a good picture.
 
High King said:
Don't see the point. I don't even have a lanyard on my keys.
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I had a lanyard on my sheath. It was there in addition to the keeper strap to prevent the knife from flying out when I jumped out of the aircraft.

When we did anything after nightfall, you always dummy-corded everything to you in order to prevent losing it. Playing "hands across the dropzone" at 0030 because someone lost their NOD's is NOT "fun".

That's the only use I have for a lanyard.
 
tobii3 said:
Playing "hands across the dropzone" at 0030 because someone lost their NOD's is NOT "fun".
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I can imagine. But I meant that I don't see the point in it for me. As in, I don't use them in any situation where they might get lost without me knowing, so I don't bother with the lanyard. Not that I thought lanyards are pointless -- they certainly have their uses.
 
I need to buy paracord and learn to make my own lanyards... I buy pre-made ones and most of my knives have too small of a hole to attach the pre-made ones to. I find myself inconvenienced now when I am carrying a knife that lacks a little lanyard on the end.... It used to not matter to me at all, yet now I want one on each knife I carry.
 
I think they can look pretty neat and I thought I would like them. Got into making them when I first got interested in knives. In use I just find them to be annoying. I do use a small leather one on some of my knives but other than that nothing
 
Yep, WillyD, here too. His style is like nothing else I've seen, and the fact that every one is hand-carved means you are getting something which is as truly unique as it can be. He's also good people, and that makes a huge difference!
 
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