550 cord goodies...

[UnSafe]

FYI-

Cheap! Type 2 Suspension line (The real para cord with the little black tick marks) in packaged lengths for a buck or two at Uptown Thrift store on NW Expressway in OKC, near Rockwell.

Even cheaper on certain days.

 

[P35]

I buy 550 from ......
http://www.countycomm.com/index1.htm
also
http://www.supplycaptain.com/index.cfm/category/19/550-paracord.cfm
Beware county .com , they have a bunch of neat stuff

 

[bigcountryok]

I have a paddle that the entire handle is covered with braided 550 and the paddle face was turned into a very nice plaque. It is was a traditional parting gift from the last unit I was in. My camera phone doesn't do it justice so maybe I can get a decent pic of it later.

 

[Slack One]

Found some paracord at Oklahoma Army Surplus (41st and Memorial) that I don't hate. Six cents a foot, in various colors.

The monkeyfist is pretty easy with this stuff. The braid is a knot I "invented". I'm certain that it's a pre-existing braid, but I've never seen instructions for it, and don't know a name. Probably some macrame thing. The transition from monkeyfist to braid sucks, something I'll have to work on if I want to make keychains like this.

 

[Rick417]

I forgot about that. I have done that too. I had an upper that had a round solid aluminum free float tube and I wraped it in 550 cord and twisted it on the side. It looked pretty cool I thought.

Can you give any advise on how to do one of these?
I only have the rail on the top of the hand guard. I've started to do it a couple of times but I'm not the craftiest of guys.

 

[Josh-L]

It won't work with that top rail on. Well I guess it could but it wouldn't look right. It's hard to explain how to to it but you will need A LOT of cord. Can't remember how much exactly but just for reference those bracelelts I posted use about 8 feet. Anyway, loop it around your handguards so that you start in the middle of the length of cord. The just start wrapping it around and do a 180 spin/twist on the sides and go back and forth twisting on opposite sides down the length of the tube.

 

[bratch]

I need some for my underfolder.

 

[Slack One]

Decided to work up my own bracelet pattern. Figure I'll give away a couple as Christmas presents to my nephews.

Took some figuring, but it's made from a single length of cord braided five-cord style. Figured if you're wearing paracord, might as well have a completely usable hank of the stuff if you ever needed it to ward off zombies or something. I think a couple yards went into this one. The knots that "lock" into the loop are an Alpine Butterfly variant I made up because every button knot I could find was either too round or too floppy. There's three of them so you can adjust the length on your arm.

 

[dubs chops]

lets bring this thread back from the dead, I am starting to do this so I wan't to see other people's handy work.

 

[Ignored Member]

very weird that this thread got put to the top today, my dad called me earlier asking if i knew how to make those bracelets.