The Official Lanyard Thread

I put a lot of different lanyards on my folders. Here is my usual carry pair, a Hinderer XM-24 and a Swiss Army Classic. The XM-24 has a bead of the Kirby Morgan Superlite Diving Helmet I used on a couple of commercial diving jobs. The SA Classic has a cliphook that I use to attach it to my car key ring for whichever car I am driving.
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Just got this CJRB folder called the Briar in today, it has a swivel lanyard pin with a hole in it sandwiched between the two scales, but the hole is too small for the paracord I have, but there was clearance around the pin so I could attach my bobtail fob onto that instead and works fine. Almost enough clearance on the last standoff but it was too close for comfort with that fine tip, so opted to put it just a bit back.

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Now to keep the lanyard from drifting into the handle, you need to tie it so that it can't do that. I use what's called a whipping knot to keep that under control;
Make a loop and then start wrapping the thread, here I used some waxed thread, around the two strands of paracord, with the loop near the handle.

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After you get nice and tight to the handle, I use a pair of SAK pliers to pull the one side of the thread good tight, keeps it from loosening up.

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Then I slip the one end through the loop and pull it tight

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Once I get it to the wrapped threads, I will pull it down under the wrapped threads and then snip it off and then pull the cut off portion also under the wrap.

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And then go to the start and carefully snip that end off as close as you can, ending up with a solid bobtail fob.

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Hope that helps folks out on making a whipping knot for your lanyards.
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This one's been here before, but I carried it today and got a few nice pics. I do like the way it came out plus my Russian Dr Death has the lanyard attachment integral to the backspacer--my all-time favorite type, this example particularly well-executed.

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New knife, new bead, new lanyard.

I finally got my hands on a 3.5 XM18 No-Choil Skinny Slicer and ordered an RHK Mt Hood bead in SS as it was pretty economical and matched the knife well. I thought I might brighten things up a bit with a red G10 scale while I awaited arrival, but really liked the muted look of the piece when I unboxed. I considered adding my favorite red/black Licorice cord but went with the more subdued forest green/black 550 instead, capturing the bead between two Crown and Diamond knots.

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ChazzyP said:
New knife, new bead, new lanyard.

I finally got my hands on a 3.5 XM18 No-Choil Skinny Slicer and ordered an RHK Mt Hood bead in SS as it was pretty economical and matched the knife well. I thought I might brighten things up a bit with a red G10 scale while I awaited arrival, but really liked the muted look of the piece when I unboxed. I considered adding my favorite red/black Licorice cord but went with the more subdued forest green/black 550 instead, capturing the bead between two Crown and Diamond knots.

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Sorry ignore this post.....computer had a breakdown.
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Gary W. Graley said:
Just got this CJRB folder called the Briar in today, it has a swivel lanyard pin with a hole in it sandwiched between the two scales, but the hole is too small for the paracord I have, but there was clearance around the pin so I could attach my bobtail fob onto that instead and works fine. Almost enough clearance on the last standoff but it was too close for comfort with that fine tip, so opted to put it just a bit back.

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Now to keep the lanyard from drifting into the handle, you need to tie it so that it can't do that. I use what's called a whipping knot to keep that under control;
Make a loop and then start wrapping the thread, here I used some waxed thread, around the two strands of paracord, with the loop near the handle.

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

After you get nice and tight to the handle, I use a pair of SAK pliers to pull the one side of the thread good tight, keeps it from loosening up.

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Then I slip the one end through the loop and pull it tight

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Once I get it to the wrapped threads, I will pull it down under the wrapped threads and then snip it off and then pull the cut off portion also under the wrap.

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

And then go to the start and carefully snip that end off as close as you can, ending up with a solid bobtail fob.

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Hope that helps folks out on making a whipping knot for your lanyards.
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Love the way you do the bob tail wrap there. I really need to get some of that smaller cord and start doing that on some.
 
Thanks, it works pretty good and if done right, it stays put well, I get the #40 weight thread from this place

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When I bought my RDD from a friend over at the Bears' Den, he very generously included this Shirogorov pivot bead along with the knife. I had already decided to use the Zoe Crist Damascus bead on that one (Post 562 above) and intended all along to replace the ferruled blue glass bead on my Tabargan with the Shiro piece. I put off doing it for quite a while as I had two nicely formed Extended Crown and Diamonds on that knife, but decided today to go ahead with the change. It's a hard enough knot to tie and cinch up neatly with extra cord to waste, but I decided to leave the inner knot, replace the bead, and re-tie the outer just for the helluvit. It really was a PIA and, although it came out pretty well, I should replace the cord not far down the road as it's getting kinda ratty anyway.

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I picked up my new-to-me Gerry McGinnis ProLine Valve from the PO today and tied up a lanyard for it early this evening. The lanyard hole near the blade spine is kinda tight and it took me a while to thread 550 through with a burned and trimmed end. After getting the first three snake knots tied I realized there was no way I was getting two strands through the smallish bead I'd picked out. I backtracked, gutted three strands out of the piece of King Tut I was using and was able to finish up neatly. I don't always like the look of gutted cord, but I think the smaller flat knots complement the narrow brass bead nicely.

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This is the Boker Yukon, lightweight folder that has a hidden lanyard hole that is pretty much in accessible :( after much work I was able to thread in some very small diameter paracord through it, but it would create quite a small diamond knot.
So I checked on how to create a DOUBLE size diamond knot and it worked great for this, providing a much better size knot when using this thin paracord.

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Here's a comparison to using my regular size paracord which has 8 inner strands, at the end of the narrow paracord I used a regular diamond knot and you can see the marked difference in size, I didn't want TWO large knots so this worked out very good.

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The Boker has some great contours to the handle scales and locks up solid. I'll use this mainly for food I think as I like the lower point and flat ground blade.

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I may give the double diamond knot a try on one of the fixed blades, but I think it would be pretty large, maybe too large...

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I had diameter conflict last night much as Gary W. Graley Gary W. Graley posted about just above. My made-to-order Andrey Biryukov No. 10 has my favorite type of lanyard attachment, built into the rear of the backspacer. On many knives it's fairly deeply recessed and the interior edges of the handle slabs or scales are relieved to allow one to slip the cord through and maybe get just a little movement there too. Unfortunately, as well made as this beauty is, the recesses and hole were way too tight to get 550 through and none of my usual tricks were working. I have a nice hank of blue 420, but didn't want the lighter cord/smaller knot nor to have the cord the same color as the bead.

One thing I sometimes do to get cord through tight holes is to gut the last few inches, then burn, point, and trim the end, but I couldn't get anything rigid through the hole and back out the other side. Finally, I took the gutted end, made a tight aglet out of Scotch tape, trimmed that off clean and square, and was able to grab it emerging on the far side, pulling it through with a tweezer I use for handling bearings in BB pivots. You can see how tight the full cord is, squeezing through the lanyard opening. (The gutted section is only in the waste end and gets cut off.)

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I like the color of that gray cord, but it has a poly shell and is too stiff for my taste. I've been meaning to buy some nylon/nylon gray that lays much more nicely and will probably have to do this one all over again.

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