Lost lanyard tube, would my fat fudge fingers have gotten a lanyard through?

[silenthunterstudios]

I have had several CRK folders with the lanyard tube. Most of the early knives with tubes I picked up, the tubes were just tossed in a drawer (can't find them). I had plans to fit 550 cord with the inner strands pulled out, and to make my own square knot lanyard fob, on my large and small micarta 21s, and my large micarta Insingo.

Poor planning, I decided to try this right before a family party, and lost my tube on my basement floor. I searched for it for an hour, and will have to crawl on my hands and knees with a flashlight, no luck. I have not cut the cord on my small 21 or my Insingo, but have two more tubes to try with.

I was going to ream the hole on the other two tubes, and burn the ends of my paracord and use a bent paper clip to get the lanyard through.

I know that this is overkill, I would just put the lanyard through one of the frame holes, but I am stubborn, and want to put the lanyard on the tube.

Any ideas before I mangle my knife?

 

[bart1]

I had a similar experience, and run my lanyard through the hole in the frame, and have been pleased in all respects.

 

[greg c]

Use dental floss through a sewing needle, sew that through the end of your paracord and then remove needle and pull the dental floss ends through the small lanyard hole. The floss should be strong enough to pull the paracord end through easily.

 

[Ghostwalker54]

Cut your paracord at an angle, melt to create a point, place through hole in lanyard pin (I will assume that is what you are referring to when talking about a tube) and pull through. You only need to remove either three or four inner strands of the paracord according to how stiff you want it. I make custom lanyards using both CRK beads and customs and it's quite easy.

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