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Sending out a couple of knives to newer guys, Aikiguy and ron finkbeiner jr. Before the blades hit tomorrow's mail, I thought I'd take the time to do a quick wrap tutorial.
Moose taught me this wrap technique at the Spring Gathering, and there have been some requests for a tutorial after I posted pics of my wrapped 14.
This pic has almost no informational value, but here it is anyway.
I cut roughly seven feet of paracord and began the wrap. You could get by with six feet most likely, but I wanted to be sure I had enough.
I made three iterations of looping down the handle and then loosened it all up so folks could see the pattern. Here it is.
You'll have to experiment with how tight you want the loops as you go, but you want to keep things pretty tight, and you'll wind up with this.
Note how the loose ends are oriented in opposite direction for looping the ring.
You want to make sure you go in opposite directions as you make these final loops.
You'll wind up with something that looks like this, pinched tight with fingers in the last couple of loops.
With some needle nose pliers, you can keep the tension and keep the loose ends in close proximity while you cut each of them about 1/4" long.
Keep the tension with the pliers, make sure the two ends are pushed together, and hit 'em with a lighter. I find it's easier to use a grill lighter.
They'll catch fire eventually. Let 'em burn and bubble together for a couple of seconds, but don't let them burn down into your wrapped cord.
Blow them out and quickly press them flat before the melted section hardens. To do so, I just use the back of a teaspoon. You'll wind up with the cords melted together.
You can heat up this fused section with the tip of the flame and shape/round it with the spoon. Once hardened, you can also sand the melted paracord.
Done deal.
Moose taught me this wrap technique at the Spring Gathering, and there have been some requests for a tutorial after I posted pics of my wrapped 14.
This pic has almost no informational value, but here it is anyway.
I cut roughly seven feet of paracord and began the wrap. You could get by with six feet most likely, but I wanted to be sure I had enough.
I made three iterations of looping down the handle and then loosened it all up so folks could see the pattern. Here it is.
You'll have to experiment with how tight you want the loops as you go, but you want to keep things pretty tight, and you'll wind up with this.
Note how the loose ends are oriented in opposite direction for looping the ring.
You want to make sure you go in opposite directions as you make these final loops.
You'll wind up with something that looks like this, pinched tight with fingers in the last couple of loops.
With some needle nose pliers, you can keep the tension and keep the loose ends in close proximity while you cut each of them about 1/4" long.
Keep the tension with the pliers, make sure the two ends are pushed together, and hit 'em with a lighter. I find it's easier to use a grill lighter.
They'll catch fire eventually. Let 'em burn and bubble together for a couple of seconds, but don't let them burn down into your wrapped cord.
Blow them out and quickly press them flat before the melted section hardens. To do so, I just use the back of a teaspoon. You'll wind up with the cords melted together.
You can heat up this fused section with the tip of the flame and shape/round it with the spoon. Once hardened, you can also sand the melted paracord.
Done deal.
