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ET Whips - Image Gallery. Flogger on Etsy, a global handmade and vintage marketplace. Turks knot. Sinnet. Fun with Paracord! (or) Misadventures with Paracord! Stormdrane wrote: A longer 4 bight turks head knot(109 leads 4 bights) lanyard, made with 1.4mm black and tan cord, over black paracord.

Fun with Paracord! (or) Misadventures with Paracord!

Working the 60+ feet of 1.4mm cord was a very time consuming endeavor. I used a rifle cleaning rod(30" length) as a mandrel to tie the knot around and tightened down to a 2 foot length, before removing from the cleaning rod and pulling a doubled up 6 foot length of paracord through the turks head knot, with loop/lanyard knot on one end, and finishing with swivel clip/snap hook on the other. That is really cool! Nice quality picture as well. I just did a river bend knot key fob: Short, yes, but it is just what I need to pull my car keys out of my pocket. "All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies.And when the catch you, they will kill you.But first they must catch you.

" Portuguese sinnet. Paracord Projects: Post Them Here. Paracord is kind of like a shoelace - it's a nylon fabric tube with several double strands of essentially more nylon monofilament inside.

Paracord Projects: Post Them Here

A shoelace is typically on the order of poly fill in terms of strand diameter - really fine stuff, while paracord is more like lightweight fishing line piled together. The number refers to the nominal breaking strength in pounds, apparently 550. I doubt that you could break it just by hanging 550 pounds from it, but I think that's where it transitions from elastic elongation to inelastic elongation, abruptly leading to failure.

I believe it's called paracord because at least the same design, if not the same exact material, was/is traditionally used for modern parachute canopy lines. As far as I can tell, the "real stuff" is outlined by MIL-C-5040H, and there are several types, and type III is your 550 para cord that everyone talks about using here for boot laces and the like. Here's the wikipedia link: Cheers! May 2010. I wanted to give my girlfriend a bracelet to let her know how much I love her.

May 2010

But I thought a big Survival Bracelet wouldn't look so nice on her slender wrist. So I searched the Ashley Book of Knots and came up with the True Lovers Knot (ABOK #798). I started with 6 feet of paracord and melted the ends of the cord. We are going to start with a 2 Strand Matthew Walker Knot. Form a loop and hold the loop under your thumb. Take the running end from the front and go through the opposite loop. Take the running end from the back and go through the opposite loop. Now you pass the running ends through the loops one more time... Take the end coming from the left loop and pass it through the right loop. Take the end coming from the right loop and pass it through the left loop.

Keep the cords going in the same direction... Carefully pull tight. Now we will tie the True Lovers Knot. Tie a second over hand knot by passing the running end through the loop of the first over hand knot. Wrapping a tiller. Before you start to try to varnish it, just soak it in shellac.

Wrapping a tiller

The shellac will soak into the line. Varnish just pretty much sits on top and the line will get crappy underneath... rot if it's cotton, actually. Also, varnish doesn't last forever. When your varnish craps out, you'll pay hell to try to refinish a surface like that. If you use orange shellac instead, you can build up the shellac coats until they are shiney very easily. Handle wraps? - Page 3.