Tuesday, December 23, 2008

This is a pic of another mat I made for my wife. She wanted one a little bigger than the first one I made. As you can see I made 7 passes on this ocean plait. Same rope I used on the first one. I bought it at Lowes. I believe it was 1/2 " .
Picture of some key fobs done in a snake knot. I also tied a lanyard knot at the beginning and the end of these also. It seems easier to use two colors this way.

Monday, December 22, 2008

This is a neck lanyard I made for a friend of mine. He got for a buddy of his to use for a whistle. I used a flat 3/8" breakaway clip that I ordered from www.countrybrookdesign.com
This is a snake knot key fob. I tied a lanyard knot at the beginning and the end. Tying the lanyard knot allowed me to use 2 colors.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

As most people know by now knot tying is an addiction. The handle on my thermos broke so I decided to make one. It tuned out pretty good and looks nice. It took me awhile on this one. I used close to 100' of paracord and probably 4 1/2 hrs to complete.
This is one of the ends for the reigns.
This is a set of reigns for a friends horse. They are about 8' long and I put the quick connectors on the ends. I did a diamond back braid and added a couple of lanyard knots.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Here is a pic of some bracelets I made using half hitches. This is a very simple knot to do.I'm not sure if there is a tutorial for this one or not.Hopefully I can try to do some of my own in the future.

Here are some cross key fobs that I made. These are pretty simple to make. These are done using a simple spiral braid. Connecting them together was the tricky part. I can't remember the tutorial that I used to connect them. I googled paracord braiding to find it.
This is a sports bottle holder that I made for my wife.She likes colorful things so this is pretty wild.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

This was my second attempt at a long 2 bight turks head.I work outside and I am on call 24/7.My maglite gets pretty cold in the winter and this really helped.I also put a king cobra knot on it for a handle.After I made all 4 passes on the turks head I put 2 core strings for the king cobra before I tightened it.I used Bud Brewers tutorial on http://www.khww.net/ for the turks head.

This is a ocean plait I made out of rope I bought from Lowe's.I bought 50' of rope and had about 10' left over after I tightened it.My wife is using as a door mat.I got the layout from http://www.khww.com/.

Monday, December 1, 2008

This is another watchband I made.It has a 5/8" side release buckle on it.Here again I used 450 paracord.
This is a watch band I made by combining 2 cobra stitches.I found the tutorial on stormdranes blog.
This is a ocean plait I made for my aunt with my uncles initials on it.
This is just a key fob using a monkey fist and cobra stitch.

strap for sunglasses


This is a strap I made using some 450 paracord.As you can see it's just a series of half hitches.The guys I work with gave me the idea and I thought I would give it a try.