video tutorial: making my original monkeys fist lanyard

Wow, thats super trick man! Great video, thanks for sharing. Im inspired to try making one now.
 
I'd love to see a pic if you do it:thumbup:

...this blog (not mine) has great tutorials and ideas for creating a setup for making monkey's fists:

http://paracord-projects.blogspot.co...fist-knot.html

The monkey's fist is the hardest part (for an 1.5" ball you need 8 passes in the knot which is quite hard to keep organized and untangled and uniform during tightening process). The nail board shown on the blog is quite helpful. after the monkey's fist, you need two strand diamond knot, or lanyard knot which is all over the web, and my youtube channel has a vid on it too. Next is the four strand round braid; also an easy google. Final challenge is the "manrope knot" on the end, which this video shows (around the standing braid. The ends should come out the bottom. the problem with a close crop/burn is that they could pull up during sliding; so I cut them a bit long and put a big blob burn on it; better than losing the ends!
 
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