Lets see your paracord wrapped Izula!

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Inspired by a previous post, I've rewrapped my Izula with a flat black paracord wrap. I really hate knots that are not neat and tidy, so in this wrap the knot is a flat splice and concealed within the wrap. Not much use if it's your only survival tool (no inner strands), but hey, who wants to be rescued and have their Izula looking like a dog's breakfast? That's 14 wraps each side, and the whole lot is impregnated with weapons grease to protect the underlying etchings from rust. It has a dry feel now, but still smells of gun grease.

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The attached dangly is the little mag striker that comes in the kit. This one has been shortened by half an inch and had a few other minor variations. It's quick and easy the separate the two when you need to use it, or if it becomes a pain in the ass, after which it can go onto a belt loop or a bag strap. I'm a lazy git and I tend to use a lighter anyhoo.

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Finally Izula in its nest, mounted with a tech lok onto the strap of my day bag. I keep a little XF7 inside the sheath to protect the blade, and thanks to a tip from someone else, now keep a little photon freedom light under a couple of ranger bands too (red LED). I tend to double up on the ranger band on my sheath to get a good solid rubber to rubber grip on things I stash there loose while out and about. I used to put things in there before and lose them. Porbably because of the rubber to plastic grip.

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All in all I really like this wrap and I think it's a keeper. It's very comfortable and gives good friction for reasonably light work, and it's minimalist enought to be in keeping with the skeletonized neck knife concept (That's why I don't get why people want scales for this thing. Go buy a HEST!)
 
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Do you know how to do the basic basket weave wrap?

When you wrap, keep the trailing end running along the inside of the lower spine. There is more room there. At the end of the wrap, you have to finish on the same side as the trailing end (the bottom), so you have to do the same amount of wraps top and bottom to do this. Wrap the leading end over the bar and then feed it back into the handle between the weaves over the top of your loose trailing end. I use a cocktail stick for this.

Now the tricky part.

Feed the leading end and the trailing ends up between the waves on one side so that they are sticking out of the same gap between two weaves. Pull tight. Now from blade end down, using your finger nail, pull the wraps as far towards the blade end as you can. You need to create a little room to work, and doing this with 13 wraps each side is par easier than doing it with 14.

Here's a very crude pickie, 'cos having done it with 14, I don't want to take it appart. Maybe when I get my tan Izula I'll take pictures when I do the same.

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You're left with a slight gap at the point were the two ends are poking up through the weaves. I bent a jumbo paperclip and used it to pin the paracord back out of the way, and I needed my GF to hold it while I cut and worked the ends.

Cut the loose ends just above weave, and, with the blade on it's side, melt the ends at the same time (Red Spot in pickie), then fold them to face eachother and wait for them to fuse. Voilas. You can now fack the fused spice into the handle and pull tight from the first wrap end, distributing any slack along the handle as you reposition the weaves.

I wouldn't recommend doing this with the guts still in your paracord. This is one for the gutless among you.
 
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Hey mbassoc2003, great wrapping job and instructions! Thanks for taking the time to share with all of us. I might try that wrap sometime.
 
Decided I wasn't totally happy with the original yellow cord wrap.

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So I redid my Izula with orange paracord.

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