I've had the bead pictured here for about a year, having bought it to go on my Rainmaker as it's a great match both color- and style-wise. It's pretty damn big, though, and after trying two different paracord patterns and several knots, it just struck me as too bulky for such a long, slender knife. I had it on my PJ Spartan Harsey Folder for a while as that's a thicker, bulkier piece, but it seemed a little splashy for an all stonewashed, unadorned knife.
It's been in a drawer for some time and I've now given it a home on my new-to-me Southard Performance Series Tolk. The knife has a very gray palette with just a little soft color in its light blue standoffs, OTS, and thumbstuds, but it also has some nicely contoured milling and a pronounced curvature to its handle slabs. It's smaller than the Olamic and SHF, but still a substantial piece, so I've tied up a couple Wide Diamonds around this poor itinerant bead with the 550 Desert Heat I got back in September.
I'm kinda liking it, though I did go back and look at the
pics here of my Rainmaker with the bead and a pair of loose regular-sized diamonds tied with a very matte reddish 750. After all I've moved this bead around, when I checked out that pic I thought it looked pretty nice. Maybe it'll end up back there again and I'll find something else for this one. I know our friend
Kmikaz3
thinks it belongs there.
Anyway, here's my latest tail, tied up last night....
and then the ends are cut to length and melted.
been tying tons of little ones like that just to practice, almost all my blades have one now lol
. You know me so well 