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Work on the smaller version first--the second wrap on the extended one is a lot to hang onto while going through the side lobes again before heading up through the crown with the working ends. Cinching up is even worse.Oh wow... That thing is complicated
Imagine doing it with 73-year-old arthritic carpenter's mitts. 
In due time, my friend!
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Gary W. Graley
, but then all of yours do. I've got one hank of that 11-strand, 750 cord in red and you've just sent me looking at the Big River Site for an additional color or pattern that I like. I just bought another bead off the Artsy-Craftsy Site last night--this one sculpted, blue anodized ti--that should be a good match for my Rainmaker, but it's a whopping big 3/4" round and, like with my Voron, I don't want it banging up the knife. A couple giant Diamond Knots like yours should do the trick to buffer that fat bead.
ChazzyP
This is definitely more harder than lets say, 4 strand round braid knots, which is somewhat similar. Like you can see, i made two knots and tried to cinch them to the perfect distance, from the loop where it go through the knife lanyard hole to the distance where the bead would be. When cinching, i tend to mixed up and thing go unravelling or pulled the wrong end to pull the tail or the loop together or is tied too tightly together to pull strand per strand. Definitely requires more practices and a bit more time consuming but i will eventually get there. Still a bit uneven.
Kmikaz3
, cinching is definitely the most frustrating part of getting the EC&DK to look right and, as you've noted, getting the base (standing end) located where you want along the strand complicates things.
Remember that the cord runs from the standing end through the center of the knot all the way to the top (to your initial overhand knot which forms the crown), then back and forth down through the knot, around the bottom, then back and forth up through, then out through center of the crown. As you initially pull cord up through from the standing end to locate the knot, there's a tendency for the top wraps to be loose and the bottom wraps to become too tight. As you cinch through, make sure not to over tighten the bottom as you start back up, then if you pull the working end too hard it's pulling the bottom too tight around the standing end.
If the bottom is too tight or too far off the bead, just reverse course pulling more slack toward the bottom to loosen a little there and move the base back toward the working end (bead). It's easy to mistakenly go the wrong way so just reverse course to correct. It's always harder to loosen a section than to tighten one up.
When budget allows, ill definitely show you one on a knife with bead!
I'm well aware of the difference and that the common parlance of lanyard is technically incorrect. As I noted in the OP over three-and-a-half years back:
My Endura's not burnt, just regular old orange, but I like blue with it.
Now it's time to introduce a knife. 
