Here's a lanyard in black and neon green paracord done in a diamond braid with an eye splice loop and a black snap hook swivel. Overall finished length is 8.5 inches.
How do you do the eye splice loop? I am going to make a couple of dog leashes and was planning on doing them with a 2 color cobra stitch, but haven't determined how to make the loop to hold onto. Is there a good method to splice the cord from a cobra stitch to make a solid loop that won't pull loose?
There are lots of online diagrams for splicing to follow, where you work the ends back into the braid. I'm not very good a splicing, so it usually doesn't look very good, so I usually also try covering the spliced section with 'common whipping', a snake knot, or a turks head knot.
If you use a cobra stitch, the simplest thing to do for a loop is a section of king cobra stitching back over part of the leash after forming your loop.
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Very interesting, I did something similar.
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artemisas
How do you do the eye splice loop? I am going to make a couple of dog leashes and was planning on doing them with a 2 color cobra stitch, but haven't determined how to make the loop to hold onto. Is there a good method to splice the cord from a cobra stitch to make a solid loop that won't pull loose?
There are lots of online diagrams for splicing to follow, where you work the ends back into the braid. I'm not very good a splicing, so it usually doesn't look very good, so I usually also try covering the spliced section with 'common whipping', a snake knot, or a turks head knot.
If you use a cobra stitch, the simplest thing to do for a loop is a section of king cobra stitching back over part of the leash after forming your loop.
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