Paracord grip wrap on a boot knife...

I used about 7 or 8 feet of gutted paracord for this grip/handle wrap on a boot knife. I was following this 'Traditional grip wrapping on Chinese swords and sabers' tutorial, made by Peter Dekker.

*The link for the tutorial has been down a while and after emailing Peter Dekker, he said it would eventually be updated and fixed, but until then I have the 6 pages scanned and available in my Xanga account and posted below.

The boot knife that I used has a smaller handle than the sword in the tutorial, and the gutted paracord might be a bit wider than the cord that was used too, so it came out a little different.

I made the initial loops on both sides closer together, using a couple of pieces of string to hold them in place as I worked(tape was used in the tutorial, but rubber bands may also be used), and did the crossover of the cords on one side and straight across on the other, for a contrasting pattern on each side. The cord ends were tucked with hemostats to finish.

The knife is a Western Cutlery Co. Model #777, which were first made in 1985. I found a catalog link for it in pdf format.

Ringbolt Hitching

Pictured is paracord ringbolt hitching that I tied over a 2.5" diameter steel ring.

The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Knots and Ropework by Geoffrey Budworth, has some good photos of tying different types of ring hitching: ringbolt, continuous, and alternate. Budworth's The Complete Book of Decorative Knots also has some good diagrams to follow.

JD of TyingItAllTogether has a YouTube video showing the same type of single strand ringbolt hitching.

There are other variations, like this example on the Marinews website, and another one here. And a tutorial for hitching on a walking staff. Ringbolt hitching is also called coxcombing or cockscombing, hog backing, and platted ring.

This is a ringbolt hitched paracord bracelet, made with about 10 feet of gutted paracord and a 3/8" side release buckle.

Before this one, I tied/untied three of them with the inner strands intact, different size buckle(5/8"), with gutted cord over another paracord bracelet, and with 4 and 8 strand cores to tie around. The hitching looked alright to me, but overall those seemed either too narrow and tall or oversized, so I went with a gutted paracord version.

The gutted cord is a bit difficult to keep from getting twisted and kinked but came out as an okay variation for a slim sized paracord bracelet. Maybe tied around a thin wide, metal or rubber wrist band might also work... YMMV