Fun with Paracord! (or) Misadventures with Paracord!

by **Takaaco78** » Mon Mar 19, 2012 2:40 pm

made a double dog leach connector thingy (wife wanted something she could hook to the leach and walk two dogs at once)

by **Stormdrane** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:51 am

Takaaco78 wrote:made a double dog leach connector thingy (wife wanted something she could hook to the leach and walk two dogs at once)

Nice work on the double dog lead!

A 43 lead 2 bight Turk's head knot paracord lanyard...

by **Tank Woman** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:04 pm

I made my first ever paracord thingy. Its a camera case and took 100 feet.

I knitted it on a loom because I wanted to be able to easily unravel it in a pinch. If you look at the bottom left of the 1st pic you'll see a little white thing. Thats where I sewed the end of the cord. All you have to do it clip the thread and start yanking.

by **WESBC** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:17 am

by **Stormdrane** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 1:29 am

I followed a tutorial by JD(TIAT) to tie the Back-to-Back Bar, which is a cobra stitch/Solomon bar/Portuguese sinnet knot variation, to make this paracord lanyard...

by **DJH** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 9:49 am

GF made herself a Paracord belt, 80 feet of it in there (just short of a 4ft long belt.)

by **Silent Kube** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 10:08 am

Working on yet another slatts belt. Decided I want one in OD to go with my khaki cargo pants I wear in the woods.

by **Smü** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 1:18 pm

Tried my first Solomon bar, changing the zipper pulls on the (unused) CCW compartments of two Maxpedition bags.

It took me a while to figure out the pattern and tie the bar fluently, this is the first one:

After this one, I thougt I had it figured out, the tieing was way more fluent, but the bar itself kept twisting. After several attempts of untieing and retieing I gave up. Doesn't look bad, on second thought.

Unintentional radio in pic is unintentional.

by **Stormdrane** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 1:40 pm

Smü wrote:Tried my first Solomon bar, changing the zipper pulls on the (unused) CCW compartments of two Maxpedition bags.

It took me a while to figure out the pattern and tie the bar fluently, this is the first one:

After this one, I thougt I had it figured out, the tieing was way more fluent, but the bar itself kept twisting. After several attempts of untieing and retieing I gave up. Doesn't look bad, on second thought.

Unintentional radio in pic is unintentional.

You're off to a good start!

When you tie the same half knot over and over, you get the twist pattern, when you alternate it you get the cobra stitch/Solomon bar/Portuguese sinnet/square knotting pattern.

Tip: for a tighter pattern, whether twist or flat, push the knots up towards the starting end after you tie every two or three knots. And for finishing, you can trim and melt/sew/glue the ends in place or use hemostats to tuck/pull the ends back under a couple of knots alongside the core strands, then trim the ends...

by **Smü** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:12 pm

Stormdrane wrote:You're off to a good start! [...]

Thanks a lot. I definitely will try some other knots and patterns.

What surprised me the most is the amount of chord you can "hide" in such a knot. I roughly judged from the pics from the instructional for the solomon bar. That must be 1.2m (4 ft.) of chord on the first bar and 1.6 (5.5 ft.) on the twisted one.

by **Silent Kube** » Tue May 01, 2012 7:25 am

Just finished a new belt, well at least the belt part. 100' of paracord in OD to go with the khaki gear I wear in the bush. Next I'm going to attempt a combo buckle/flint striker.

by **BullOnParade** » Tue May 01, 2012 6:40 pm

Smü wrote:
Stormdrane wrote:You're off to a good start! [...]

Thanks a lot. I definitely will try some other knots and patterns.

What surprised me the most is the amount of chord you can "hide" in such a knot. I roughly judged from the pics from the instructional for the solomon bar. That must be 1.2m (4 ft.) of chord on the first bar and 1.6 (5.5 ft.) on the twisted one.

It's pretty awesome. I have two inch zipper pulls on a lot of my packs, made from two feet of cord.

by **Smü** » Mon May 14, 2012 3:44 am

My, my, my, what a nifty little helper paracord is.

Not much knot art or braiding, but paracord came in handy when I redid parts of my workhop. I acquired a tool wall from a yard sale. The heavy tools are held by ... paracord.

by **Stormdrane** » Wed May 16, 2012 1:18 pm

A single strand paracord star knot...

by **Stormdrane** » Sat May 19, 2012 10:20 am

Here's a single strand star knot used with a fixed blade knife, where the loop can be worked up against the handle for a no-snag type lanyard with the single strand hanging down being less likely to catch on brush while hiking. The loop can be extended for wrist wear or thumb and loop behind the hand secure method...

by **Stormdrane** » Wed May 23, 2012 6:11 pm

Here's a 'Star Grommet' used as a finger loop lanyard/fob...

by **Cnidaria** » Thu May 24, 2012 11:53 am

4 foot Snakewhip

Instructions are here: http://makeallthethings.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/paracord-snakewhip-part-1-of-2/
Will post part 2 later on today.

by **Takaaco78** » Thu May 24, 2012 3:52 pm

Made some skull ranger beads

by **Rebel Pariah** » Fri Jun 01, 2012 2:15 am

made a wrist band sized version of a paracord bracelet....

started with a soloman bar?

what ever thats called... thats what I made lol

I then wrapped it with another cobra stitch on top for good measure 8-)

pics 2morow if I remember or if anyone is interested

plan to make the mother of all paracord bracelets, this was just a dry run... I plan of stuffing all kinds of goodies inside...

think batman's utility bracelet...

stormdrane I will shoot you a PM in a few days when I get some time I have a few questions about how to rig something and you ARE the master of paracord :wink:

by **Takaaco78** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 6:44 pm

now i can hang my hammock outside my bag, or anywhere

by **Texas19Delta** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 9:06 pm

Here's some of my stuff from the past year:
Bracelets for a fundraiser:
[img]http://img.tapatalk.com/6343761c-2fe6-cb1c.jpg[/img]
Sling for my brother:

by **the boz** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 12:32 am

I have been diabetic for 16 years and always hated wearing the stupid metal medical bracelets as a kid. I have been tinkering with paracord for a year or so and finally put them together. Now at age 25 I wear a medical bracelet everywhere I go (which was something I rarely did unless I was traveling out of town or alone).

by **DarkGhost** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 6:49 am

by **Stormdrane** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 10:45 am

Paracord crown sinnet cross with circle/ring. I'll have to see if I can find some thinner guage solid rings in brass or copper at the hardware store, something not as thick as the key/split rings where their thickness causes a bit of deformation where they're tied around the ring...