Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Two Tone Turk and Single Strand Lanyard

I'd gotten my girlfriend a Ultra Fire flashlight for her purse some time ago. The problem being every time we need it in any hurry its lost in the "abyss" as I like to call it hahahah. In response to this problem I decided to fashion a lanyard for it that could be clipped to a shoulder strap ring. The result is 4 bight Turks head in orange and pink and a single strand lanyard. The lanyard is comprised of two #583 knots from the ABOK and a One Cord Knot #586 in the ABOK. I also added to sliding crowns in pink to tie it all together. Thanks for looking as always and I hope you enjoy my work. Oh one last thing, I'd like to thank my lone follower Elaine :)







Thursday, April 18, 2013

Duracell Daylite Turk'd & Guacho'd

I have had this tied up since way back when I started following StormDrane. I found his YouTube video on how to tie gaucho's very informative and easy to follow. This as I said is a Duracell Daylite, it's a 80 lumen flashlight that is VERY bright for its size and price point, I think I paid 28 bucks at Wally World. I would have shown you but after 4 years my end cap has failed and I am currently waiting on the mail for the replacement. I tied a 4B16L Turks over the majority of it. If you've tried these and failed don't give up. This particular Turk was tied and untied at least 5 times before it looked as uniform as I wanted. The Gaucho Knot came a little easier to me after all the time spent learning the Turk, I decided to put two on in opposite directions to fill the space left . Like I said if you'd like to learn before you buy the Ashley Book, you most likely will. Once knotting sets it hook in ya like it did me, go check out StormDrane's blog and YouTube channel. Also give J.D. of TIAT on YouTube a gander, he is a master of the rope craft and someone we can all aspire to. As always thanks for looking and I hope you enjoy it.





Thursday, April 4, 2013

Gerber Shard Knife Lanyard

I picked up a Gerber Shard with a recent Amazon order. I think it was five dollars, which for four compact tools isn't half bad. I like the one StormDrane gaucho'd, but wanted to have a bit more MicroCord on it. I ended up getting about five feet packed on it, lashing one direction then the other. I attached it to my Ka-Bar Dozier with a FootRope Knot looped backed on itself and worked through the knot. This actually worked out well as you can hold the two with the shard on top and get a bit more leverage. Hope you enjoy it and thanks for looking as always.