Emperor's Snake Knot

I alternated tying the snake knot with the Emperor's snake knot for this paracord fob on an Olight i5T EOS LED flashlight, with a damascus lanyard bead.

Gerber with a snake knot

I tied a snake knot with a couple of feet of paracord onto this Gerber pocketknife.

Walking stick retention lanyard

One of my walking sticks didn't have an attachment point for a wrist lanyard, so I used a single strand of paracord and tied constrictor knots with each end to help with retention... #paracord #edc #knots

Been awile since I'd tied one of these...

I got a titanium damascus bead from Olight amd it came with a couple of feet of paracord. The box had an example diagram of a snake knot, but I figured I'd try a two strand four bight gaucho knot thinking that the paracord would be long enough.Amd it worked out although I had to start over a couple of times, needing to work some slack through the knot so I would have a long enough attachment loop to tie a bull hitch too...

Saturday pocket dump after dialysis...

Update: I started dialysis back in May, and go in for that three times a week until I bite the dust or get a kidney transplant. Had to go in today instead of Friday because of the Thanksgiving holiday and since I was told my weekly labs came back and showed that I wasn't meeting clearances (desired results), that I will have to spend more time hooked up to the dialysis machine each day of treatment, which is almost four hours on those days. They're already using the largest needles and flow rate on the machine. 

 My eyesight and peripheral neuropathy pain have continued to worsen, so I haven't done any knotwork, besides tying my shoelaces, in a long while... 

This afternoon's pocket dump...

Thursday's edc pocket dump

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* Victorinox Alox Pioneer Swiss Army Knife 

* Kershaw PT-1 mulitool 

* Maratac AA LED flashlight 

* Swissbianco tactical pen 

* Timex Reef Gear watch 

* Titanium carabiner with Punisher skull 

* Handkerchief 

* Paracord lanyard

* Nite Ize Microlock S-Biner

Wenger Wednesday edc pocket dump...

#edc #paracord #knife #multitool #flashlight #pen #handkerchief #watch #pocketdump #stormdrane #knots

 

Saturday edc pocketdump...

Saturday edc pocketdump

#swissbianco #edc #olight #victorinox #paracord #knife #multitool #flashlight #pen #handkerchief #watch #pocketdump #stormdrane #g10 #kydex #niteize #carabiner #knots

 

Thursday edc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#edc #everydaycarry #sak #swissbianco #timex #manker #gerber #knife #multitool #paracord #flashlight #prybar #zebra #pen #victorinox #niteize #suunto #compass #handkercheif #carabiner #lanyard #stormdrane #ballpoint #climber #shard

April EDC

~Victorinox Huntsman SAK with armee green alox scales

~Gerber Shard multitool

~Olight i3E EOS flashlight 

~Nite Ize Slidelock carabiner on paracord lanyard 

~Citizen Promaster watch and Suunto compass

~Pilot Precise V5 pen

Emperors new clothes...

I installed new scales on a couple of my Swiss Army knives and on one for my pa.  I'd purchased the black G10 scales from Swissbianco last year, but hadn't gotten around to putting them on one of my SAKs until recently.  

Roger sent me the armee green alox and bodensee blue G10 scales this year, so I spent a week attaching the scales, one side at a time and allowing 24 hours for the J-B Weld to cure while each knife was in my table clamp.

I put the armee green alox scales (plus type with additional slots for ink pen and a straight pin) on my pa's Victorinox Huntsman.  The black G10 went on my Victorinox Climber, and the bodensee blue on a Victorinox Spartan.

I made simple paracord neck lanyards for each knife, ring hitching onto Nite Ize carabiners and then tying lanyard/diamond knots.

I bought a 3 pack of Firefly firesteels, which fit in the toothpick slot of Victorinox knives (supposedly), but I found it too loose to stay in the armee green alox knife, too tight to get more than halfway in the black G10, and I got one in the bodensee blue with effort but cannot now get it out.

The fit is overly snug and in trying to get it out had the glow in the dark tip material crumble and break off of the firesteel.  I haven't figured out how to remove it without damaging the G10 scales...

An Early Start on Super Bowl Sunday

I used a length of paracord to tie a wrist lanyard on to my Boker Plus Dead Catch Bottle Opener, using a two-strand footrope knot and a lanyard/diamond knot.  

It works okay as a bottle opener, although not the most comfortable to hold for me, but I think it makes for a neat looking edc keyfob.  

I'm still debating if I'll add some glow-in-the-dark epoxy in the eye hole or use the eye for keyring attachment...

 

It's Sunday morning and I'm getting an early start with a tasty beverage (hard cider).

EDC birthday pocket dump

Traveling light edc, if one considers sitting at home for their birthday as "traveling".  

From inside my pockets there is a Victorinox Climber SAK, spool knit #95 paracord lanyard with Nite Ize Slide Lock S-Biner, and a new red Olight i3T EOS flashlight.

Midweek EDC pocket dump

I made a wrist lanyard with crosslace cord and added a couple of special Cyber Mini powder coated lime green skull beads that Schmuckatelli Co. had sent to me, tying ABoK #785A.  

I attached the lanyard to a Nite Ize Slide Lock carabiner.  With the lanyard pocket dump are a Victorinox Yeoman MS Swiss Army Knife with ribbed alox scales by Swissbianco, a Nite Ize Doohickey+ Key Tool multitool, Olight S1R Baton II flashlight, and a Sun compass thermometer zipper pull/keyfob.

EDC pocket dump Saturday

Paracord zipper sinnet fob with a limited edition two-tone Grins skull bead, that Schmuckatelli Co. sent me, in hematite and rhodium finish. 

EDC knife is a Kershaw Nerve, leather front pocket wallet, Fisher Cap-O-Matic pen, and attached to the Conquistador braid paracord keystrap (Made in USA HK clip), are a Gerber Shard multitool, Lumintop EDC01 flashlight, and Wenger Traveler SAK, with a Nite Ize S-Biner Microlock.

EDC shoot, shine, and sharpen...

I tied a two-strand wall knot sinnet (snake knot) paracord lanyard/fob to my CRKT Hammond Cruiser pocket knife, and added a Schmuckatelli Co. Sabertooth skull bead in black oxide finish to the end of it.

Dug my Streamlight TwinTask flashlight out of a gadget drawer for some pocket time and got the Lansky sharpener ready to do some touch up work on some knives.  

It's been a while since I've pulled the trigger on a shotgun, but I remember the 3" double aught magnum shells did have a kick to 'em...

Toggled EDC pocket dump...

 

It's been a while since I'd tied a toggle knot (ABoK #615), so I made one with some brown/tan camo paracord I had in the gadget drawer.  

I tried adding a few different beads to the lanyard, but this particular ungutted cord was too thick to pull the loop through them, so I added an old paracord over wood bead that did fit.

* Victorinox Swiss chocolate brown alox Harvester SAK (Swissbianco)

* Rustco Superloop Leather Keychain

* Olight i3E EOS flashlight (desert tan)

* Victorinox Signature

Lite SAK

* Gerber Shard multitool (brown)

* Brass safety pin

* Shields of Strength cross pendant with added knotwork and glow-in-the-dark mod

* Maxpedition wallet

* Chocolate chip camo bandana (Pa gave it to me, he's retired Army)

* Citizen Promaster watch on leather nato watchstrap

A blue EDC pocket dump...

I tied this edc blue reflective paracord lanyard in a single strand braid loop.  I added an electric blue Mind skull bead that I received from Schmuckatelli Co.  

For attachments, I used a Kershaw carabiner at one end and an S-Biner Microlock at the other, with Leatherman Squirt Ps4 multitool, Olight i1R 2 EOS flashlight, and blue Gerber Shard prybar (Blade HQ exclusive).

Also shown, notepad, Bic Cristal pen, and blue alox Victorinox Farmer SAK.

Orange you prepared EDC pocket dump...

* Rite in the Rain notebook

* Zebra F701 pen

* Buck Flashpoint pocket knife

* Leatherman Juice S2 multitool

* Widgy prybar with kydex sheath

* Olight S1R Baton II flashlight

* Victorinox Mountaineer SAK with Swissbianco G10 scales

* Maratac zippered wallet

* Orange bandana

* Navy blue mask

* Paracord lanyard

Emerson skull bead paracord keystrap

I've been trying ways to incorporate this Schmuckatelli Co. coyote brown Emerson skull bead with a Conquistador braid paracord keystrap. 

I finished this one by running the end strand through the skull bead, then melting and flattening the cord on the underside of the skull so that it dangles in the center of the keyring.