4 Turk's Head knots

Using 1.4mm braided nylon cord, I put four different Turk's Head knots on a Zebra F-301 Compact pen, for my spare key chain. I did three passes for each of the knots: 5 lead 4 bight, 4 lead 3 bight, 3 lead 5 bight, and 3 lead 4 bight. I used Stuart Grainger's 'Creative Ropecraft' as a guide for tying the knots.

Half hitch lamp wrap

Earlier this year, Warhog blogged about wrapping his lamp post with paracord, done with a series of half hitches. Here, I've done the same thing on a small table lamp, using CoolGlowStuff! cord. I think I used about 7 feet of cord for the covered section.

An online example of making the series of half hitches can be seen in this book preview. The hitches can be kept in line, or twisted as you go for the spiral pattern.

Russian Knife Magazine

In the latest issue of this Russian Knife Magazine (Klinok), July 2008, Dmitry Samoylov wrote an article about knife lanyards(pgs. 47-51). Dmitry had sent me some questions last year, and I provided answers and some photos that he used for part of the article.

The copy of the magazine he sent me arrived today. Although I cannot read Russian, it's a very nice magazine with great photos of knives, swords, and other edged weapons and tools.










Thanks Dmitry!

Woven paracord bracelet/watchband

I put up a tutorial for the woven paracord bracelet/watchband on the Instructables website.

Nalgene water bottle holder/net

There's a tutorial for a paracord water bottle holder on Knifeforums, that I followed to make this one. I used 1/8" Cool Glow Stuff! cord for this project.

*CoolGlowStuff.com is gone as a source for this cord, but there is glow-in-the-dark paracord that has since become available.

I started differently and used another knot than in the tutorial, but in the end, using the shown overhand knot method or your own variation will make a decent water bottle holder.

I wanted the bottle to stand, so instead of a large overhand knot with all four 48" strands used for the net, I looped the center of each onto a small brass split ring for a lower profile.

I used ABoK knot #3782, that also has been called the true lover's knot, although other distinct knots have had that name(wikipedia) for the individual knots. A fifth cord of 48" was used to run around the top knots when finished and cinch them tight around the bottle neck and tied a square knot to hold it(any number of knots could be used here) and finished the loop by knotting the two ends together.


A couple of photos show how the individual knots are tied.


And one done for a common half liter water bottle, with 1.4mm cord , overhand knots, and a carabiner to clip to a belt loop.


Another done with 550 paracord in the overhand knot method.