The Official Lanyard Thread

It's been pretty quiet over this way lately, so maybe yesterday's work replacing the gray cord on the SHF Flourishes I picked up last month will give us a bit of a bump. I got the fresh hank of black 550 in the mail yesterday and tied up a couple regular diamonds around the same Ultem bead for practice before trying my hand at the larger version of that knot. I had to go back to the Weavers of Eternity vid to refresh my memory and got the first knot right on the second try. The after-bead knot always seems a bit harder with more stuff in hand and less cord to work with and it took me five tries to get it right and cinched up against the bead. The two pulls under the crosses in the second-to-last pair of bends always seems to get me when trying to keep the working ends on the right side of everything.

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slinkard said:
Nice looking Lanyards ChazzyP !!! Where do you get your Paracord?
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Thanks! After having tried a bunch of different suppliers of the years, many via the big river site, I've settled on Bored?Paracord. I favor supple, all nylon (jacket and inner strands) cord which is their stock in trade. They have a broad selection of patterns, weights, and lengths and prompt delivery.
 
What's the trick to getting the ends of the paracord without the inner strands showing? Do you trim the inner strands so they are recessed then melt with a lighter?
 
slinkard said:
What's the trick to getting the ends of the paracord without the inner strands showing? Do you trim the inner strands so they are recessed then melt with a lighter?
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I don't trim the inners back. I hold each cord out horizontally individually and keep just the edge of the flame on the end 'til it flames on its own. I let that go for a few seconds until it's well-melted with the light center of the blob darkening, then blow it out. Move the cord around a bit so that the end hardens somewhat evenly. Most darker jacketed cords end up with black ends, some end up kinda amber or like their dominant color, and some will be a little lighter in the middle, which can be OK too. Generally, the longer you burn the darker they get, up to a point.

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New knife, new lanyard. I picked up this bead a while back from a maker I like at the Artsy/Craftsy site. Its Micarta and wood along with the Desert Heat cord both add some some warmth and contrast to the all-metal Arius while the brass spacers echo the knife's hardware. I especially like this one's butt-spacer which features an integral lanyard attachment--a particularly favored sort, featured on or added to a number of knives I've acquired over the years.

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ChazzyP said:
New knife, new lanyard. I picked up this bead a while back from a maker I like at the Artsy/Craftsy site. Its Micarta and wood along with the Desert Heat cord both add some some warmth and contrast to the all-metal Arius while the brass spacers echo the knife's hardware. I especially like this one's butt-spacer which features an integral lanyard attachment--a particularly favored sort, featured on or added to a number of knives I've acquired over the years.

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Makes a whole different aura.........👍
 
New tails on my Ritter Grips yesterday. I finally found a good home for one of my favorites of the fine beads I got from our friend sonofwilfred sonofwilfred . That's the sweet brass and G10 piece on the larger knife. The smaller 556 has a bead from a favored maker at the artsy/craftsy site that graced my Cheburkov Voron for many years until it was replaced by something brighter, larger and much more fitting for that big-ass red Ctek knife. It took me a little while and several YouTube views to get the Crown and Diamond knots right.

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