Revisiting a fixed loops wrist lanyard...

I can't remember the last time I tied one of these double knife lanyard knots, fixed loops on either side of a doubled lanyard/diamond knot, done with a single strand having the ends hidden within the knot, a fixed size wrist loop on one side and short attachment loop on the other, and then tying another knot over the doubled knot, in this case a gaucho knot.

I have pile of various leftover scrap lengths of paracord and use them up when I can, as with this project using some ungutted black paracord and gutted orange.

I made a wrist sized loop first, then tied a double lanyard knot, and before tightening it all the way up, I backed out one of the strands coming out out the knot, formed a small loop with the other and followed the path of the strand I'd moved.  I have an example of making such a loop with a lanyard knot on the Two-Bight Turk's Head lanyard video.

Then again back that one strand out another turn, follow with the other, doing that one or two more times, then run both of those strands though the knot and out one of the sides, and carefully tighten up the knot.

Once the knot is tight, the ends are trimmed and tucked, and hopefully the knot is symmetrical, or at least you can shape it a bit with your fingers, or roll it on a hard surface with a block of wood, a brick, or book to shape it up nicely.

I tied a gaucho knot with gutted orange paracord around a marker that was about the same diameter/thickness (a little larger is ok, too small is not) as the doubled lanyard knot, then slid it off the marker and onto the doubled lanyard knot, and carefully tightened the gaucho.  The gaucho ended up being spaced out a little bit with the knot underneath being a bit larger than a single pass would completely cover.  I left it as it was, but could have used a smaller diameter cord to follow around and double the gaucho, perhaps a couple passes of black on either side of the orange...

The knife is a Camillus rigging variation with marlinspike, an older USA made version that a knot tying friend gifted me a few years ago.  I've shown it before with other lanyards, although if not here on the blog (I couldn't find it in a search, lol), then I'm sure I shared pics on flickr and on some other various edc/multitool/knife related forums posts. It is a cool knife and I'm sure I've used the marlinspike on it more than the blade.

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A light and a capsule

County Comm recently sent me a couple of their new items to try out.  There's the Maratac Peanut LED Stainless Steel Flashlight,, and an Aluminum Anodized UEDC Capsule.

The little flashlight has a small groove in the body of the light and I tied/untied a number of different knots, trying to find one that fit just right, using 0.9mm and 1.4mm sized cord, and finally went with a gaucho knot.

The Peanut is small and light enough to wear like a pendant on a ball chain necklace, and is unobtrusive on a keyring/keychain as well.

The capsule is sized like the delrin version I received a while back, but this one being aluminum it is a little heavier and feels like it would protect on another level whatever you intended to put in it.

I'll probably load it up like the last one with a variety of edc paraphernalia.  I didn't want to cover up the nice green anodized color, so I just tied a paracord lanyard for it, with navy blue and orange cord, with a long two-bight turk's head (145 lead 2 bight I think), for a lanyard that's under three feet long, where I can extend a tool/wallet/flashlight/keychain out away from my body while it's still attached.  It fits a couple of paracord pouches I already have made, but I may tie another up just for the capsule.

I've done a couple of videos demonstrating two-bight TH knots, a short lanyard version and the start of the long 4 bight TH.  I started this lanyard on a rifle cleaning rod before moving it off and working the doubled up length of navy blue through it, then tightened it up with the spaced out pattern.

I spaced out the knot work just a bit so the navy blue underneath is visible, using a blue strand that was about 8 feet long to start with, trimming off a foot or so when finished, and had used a 30 foot length of gutted orange paracord to start since I wasn't sure what I was going to tie at first.  I think I had used a little over half of it by the time I finished tightening up the knot work.

A friend had given me that swivel clip a few years ago, and I found it in the bottom of the gadget drawer when I went looking for an attachment to use with the lanyard.  Serving suggestion shown with my multitool, and pocket knife, and I may end up using it with my edc keychain.  Football season will be kicking off soon, so War Eagle!

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Breaking the drought...

First hard cider purchase of 2016, Original Sin, from the local Eagle's Landing Bottle Shoppe.

The neoprene bottle sleeve/koozie was an online contest prize that I won, and it even has a built in bottle opener.  The zipper has a ring type pull, and instead of cutting it off and adding a paracord pull, like a crown sinnet, I left it on and did some ringbolt hitching with a few feet of red 0.9mm string.

The hitching needs a brush on coat of krazy/super glue to keep it from twisting from handling over the smooth metal ring though.

There's a couple of raised sections on the bottom part of the ring that could probably be filed down flush with the rest of the ring, but I just left it alone, working the cord around it.

On a side note, I'd watched Hinterland on Netflix months ago, and the main character often wore a jacket with a similar zipper pull, and every time I saw it on screen, I couldn't help but think it needed some knot work on it, lol...

I used my Leatherman Brewzer one-piece multitool to lift the bottle caps.

Held firmly, it only takes a single pull to remove the caps, so thumbs up on bottle opener function, and it works well also as a prybar, fingernail cleaner and standard screwdriver, kept on my edc keychain.  It replaced the Gerber Shard that had been there for a while previously, also a decent keychain edc. 

I'd added a gaucho knot variation with 0.9mm cord a few years ago after I purchased the tool, and it's starting to look worn, but I figure I'll just leave it alone until it frays and starts coming apart before I decide if I'll add another...





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