The Official Lanyard Thread

I was able to acquire a long-time Grail last weekend, and finally got a tail on it a couple days back. My style is generally simple and fairly common through all my knives in a long and floppy knot(s), bead, knot(s), open tail configuration. Similarly, I prefer beads that are complementary and don't draw interest away from or overwhelm the knife (or bang it up either). In this case, I used one of the half-dozen blue glass, feruled beads that have moved from knife to knife over the years, often as placeholders while searching for or awaiting something specific. In this case, the bead is a nice fit with the 806-1101's standoffs, and is tied up with one of my favorite patterns--King Tut--which adds just a little bright color to the otherwise overall blue palette.

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Not sure if that's a little splash of light through the tree canopy on the scale or a sawdusty thumbprint below....

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A friend wanted a short lanyard on his new Viper Twin folder, nice knife btw ! always a risk when I get someone else's knife in for work as I end up drawn to it and that one is nice.

SO, he wanted the first knot to be close to the end of the knife and wanted a knot after the bead, not my usual 3 snake knots, but I thought I'd try something out that I've not done before, I slid a small keeper bead over the paracord, cut it with a bit past the bead and then welded the two strands together so they ended up being a little wider than the keeper bead. Which keeps the larger bead in place without an awkward looking knot after those points of the bead, I think it worked out very well and may try one like that for myself sometime.

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

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Veldara said:
Knife is a Civivi Conspirator and beads are made by Metalfable. 3 knots represents the 3 cycles of life in chinese which is life, love, and death.
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Good knife right there and like both of those beads, very cool, I'll have to check them out.
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Gary W. Graley said:
Nice bead, I've been tempted to get a small lathe to do similar things myself, but lathe's look inherently dangerous to me! ;)
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Me too! A friend of mine has a mini lathe that he does pens on. I was thinking of possibly dabbling in it myself, and learning how to do beads in between pen barrels. Still just in the thinking stage. I have enough idle power tools in the work shop already.
 
Danny Linguini said:
Me too! A friend of mine has a mini lathe that he does pens on. I was thinking of possibly dabbling in it myself, and learning how to do beads in between pen barrels. Still just in the thinking stage. I have enough idle power tools in the work shop already.
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It's great fun. As I always say, you can't have too many tools.
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