A simple paracord knife lanyard.

[CrimsonTideShooter]

I'm sick of all my knives being bare. I can wrap knives pretty well so I can work with paracord alright, so can someone tell me what their favorite pattern is for lanyards? Or give me some good links? Thanks!

 

[Zini]

Here's an awesome blog with all kinds of paracord projects, lanyards included.

http://stormdrane.blogspot.com/

 

[nutnfancyfan]

personally for lanyards i do one of three things. first of is a simple cobra wrap. little thick for lanyards on knives, but make great keychains or zipper pulls. the second is the chris reeve thingy that he does. cutlery lover has a vid on it, and its a pretty good tutorial. the third is a square sinnet, that i usually like to put a mouse firesteel from goinggear.com in the middle of( im a shameless gear whore) this lanyard is really easy to make, and looks amazing, especially in 2 colors. for instructions i suggest youtube, or go to stormdranes blog

 

[StretchNM]

Being a fairly simple guy, I pretty much stick to the Reeve Coil Knot (hangman's noose) for lanyards.
http://www.chrisreeve.com/knotright.htm

 

[prime77]

The square and round sinnet with a completion stitch make great lanyards. They take only a little while to learn and look cool with a skull bead.

 

[CrimsonTideShooter]

Wow those are awesome. I know how to do the completion knot, but those sinnets blow my mind.

The square and round sinnet with a completion stitch make great lanyards. They take only a little while to learn and look cool with a skull bead.

 

[prime77]

Wow those are awesome. I know how to do the completion knot, but those sinnets blow my mind.

If you know how to do a completion knot then your half way to knowing how to do sinnets there very similar. There some vids on you tube that will help also.

 

[link2derek]

Yep -- square sinnet lanyard (and cobra weave bracelet):

 

[Flexxx]

the cobra is pretty simple

google it and you will seen plent of info.

 

[Brian Sargent]

TIAT does great videos. I like the diamond(lanyard) knot along with others.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVl6u5Vbagg

http://www.youtube.com/user/TyingItAllTogether

 

[cutter17]

Being a fairly simple guy, I pretty much stick to the Reeve Coil Knot (hangman's noose) for lanyards.
http://www.chrisreeve.com/knotright.htm

This what I do. Always wind 7 loops to make the knot for folders (number of completion) and 13 for a long blade. Once done I coat the knot with super glue to make it hard. On folders and small handled fixed blades, this gives me something solid to grip.

 

[Mal2]

I've used a hangman's noose (less than the customary 13 turns) for many years for lanyards on all sorts of stuff.

It is very useful in the form CRK uses it for increasing the effective length of a small knife. I have great difficulty using thumb studs on a small knife without the lanyard.

I sometimes tie the noose at a free end and attach the lanyard to the knife with a simple bowline knot. The noose then fits around the wrist and secures the knife to the wrist for work where dropping it would result in some sort of problem; loss, injury etc.

My sailing knife has a long lanyard with a clip at the end to attach it to my PFD so that it can be used still attached to the PFD. I sail small catamarans and have heard of instances where a knife could have saved a life when a capsize caused someone to be trapped under water in the rigging.

If the noose has enough wraps; it can be quickly removed and is good for all sorts of things not knife related. Many if not most lanyards, like the super glued one above can't be used for anything other than decoration and ease of retrieving from the pocket but the knife lanyard can be quite useful for other reasons as well.

Anybody think of other knife lanyard uses?

 

[Golddust]

Here's an awesome blog with all kinds of paracord projects, lanyards included.

http://stormdrane.blogspot.com/

Yea but that guy is the world's best lanyard maker...

 

[Tedsauce]

I use a monkey fist /snake knot on my little chive with no clip

This is how it carries

 

[Crashnburk]

Do you guys normally pull the core out on your lanyards or leave it in?

 

[Noctis3880]

Do you guys normally pull the core out on your lanyards or leave it in?

I personally like to leave it in for most cases.

Being a fairly simple guy, I pretty much stick to the Reeve Coil Knot (hangman's noose) for lanyards.
http://www.chrisreeve.com/knotright.htm

Can't get much simpler than this. Being a tacticool mall ninja, I don't like the super long, big, and bulky lanyard knots, as it gets in the way of switching the knife from a forward to reverse grip:thumbdn:. Small and simple is good for me. Plus it draws attention to my knife.

 

[ratman57]

personally for lanyards i do one of three things. first of is a simple cobra wrap. little thick for lanyards on knives,

I've used round black dress shoe laces to do a cobra stitch for a knife lanyard. It's a lot thinner than para cord looks pretty sharp. I've used them for other stitches as well. They make nice thin lanyards.

 

[charlOOsi]

Hey, prime77, I do the same lanyards as you, but how do you finish the lanyard? (as in tie it off at the end). I always end up making some ugly knot at the end that looks weird.

 

[Pete1977]

FYI- the hangman's knot, and the sinnets that are all mentioned above are fobs. A lanyard is meant to attatch the knife to oneself in some way. A fob is used to make manual access of the knife easier or to provide some extra grip.

That said, if I put a fob on it it is usually just a scrap of twine or paracord. I only use them on knives that I carry on my lobster boat and they are usually brightly colored twine so i can see the knife if i put it down.