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LKJW

LKJW

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So, my daughter is obsessed with beads, and they're cheap, so I bought a bunch for Christmas and have been making bead necklaces. Just throw a swivel on some 8 lb test fishing line and put the beads on. Easy. Then I got to thinking...it could be pretty handy having two decent lengths of fishing line on me. I already keep hooks in my wallet, but the line unravels easy or makes too big a lump. So, yeah, the beads make me feel a little like a six year old in Hawaii, but I thought I'd throw it out there. Could rig up two jigging poles pretty easy if I had to. And plain brown beads only look semi stupid on a 33 year old man.
 
LKJW said:
So, my daughter is obsessed with beads, and they're cheap, so I bought a bunch for Christmas and have been making bead necklaces. Just throw a swivel on some 8 lb test fishing line and put the beads on. Easy. Then I got to thinking...it could be pretty handy having two decent lengths of fishing line on me. I already keep hooks in my wallet, but the line unravels easy or makes too big a lump. So, yeah, the beads make me feel a little like a six year old in Hawaii, but I thought I'd throw it out there. Could rig up two jigging poles pretty easy if I had to. And plain brown beads only look semi stupid on a 33 year old man.
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Unwaxed dental floss? Comes on a nice little spool. And you can lash sticks together with it too. Considerably stronger than 8 lb.
 
You could wrap some fishing line around an old credit card and tape the ends so it won't unravel. Keep the card in your wallet with your fish hooks.
 
Why can't I get this post editing thing down? Sorry, double post.
 
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Stelth said:
You could wrap some fishing line around an old credit card and tape the ends so it won't unravel. Keep the card in your wallet with your fish hooks.
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Ahh, now that's a good idea. Should've known you guys were on it. I'll go back where I belong now. :D

And I don't have enough hair for flowers. :cool:

(My daughter kind of insists on the beads, so they'll probably be around for a little while regardless. Doing a good job at removing neck hair, too.)
 
LKJW said:
(My daughter kind of insists on the beads, so they'll probably be around for a little while regardless. Doing a good job at removing neck hair, too.)
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I have 3 daughters myself so I know what it's like. ;)
 
Mine like to go camping with me and think it's a treat to take the machete with them when they need to "use the bathroom".
 
Never mind the line, try exploring the beads more as well. The history, type of beads, and their value is fascinating. Of them all, the old chevrons are the most interesting to me. Another can of worms to open, but instrumental to american, and world, history.
 
LKJW said:
Yeah, it's pretty amazing, huh? Luckily my daughter likes motorcycles and fishing as much as she likes disney princesses. :)
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Mine too! At least, until I start the bikes up. She doesn't like anything loud, even though she's usually the loudest source of noise around.
 
Could wrap the line around one of those plastic fresnel (sp?) lenses and place in wallet. Fire and fish.
 
I have been told by some people who wear the braided paracord bracelets, to take out one strand of the inner line and replace it with fishing line or Kevlar thread for emergency purpose use, then seal the end backup and rebraid.
 
Foilist said:
Mine too! At least, until I start the bikes up. She doesn't like anything loud, even though she's usually the loudest source of noise around.
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That is TRUTH brother. She loves it until it starts and then it is "mean". And my bikes aren't even loud. :cool:

And yeah, she can make a noise that makes my face hurt. It's kind of like if a dolphin and a emergency siren mated.

Jeff, good idea. Paracord is handy stuff.
 
Jeff Venture said:
I have been told by some people who wear the braided paracord bracelets, to take out one strand of the inner line and replace it with fishing line or Kevlar thread for emergency purpose use, then seal the end backup and rebraid.
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Those paracord "survival bracelets" are nothing more then a solomon bar around a two or four strand core with a buckle at each end. It shouldn't be to hard nest a loop of fishing line alongside the core strands and weave the solomon bar over all of them.
 
Thomas Linton said:
The plastic used to make most credit cards burns very nicely. So "firestarter" in the same sense as wax or rubber bands Burns hot and for about ten minutes.
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Interesting I had no idea, now I will have to try this with one of my old Credit Cards. Thanks for sharing the idea.
 
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