These are a couple fobs I made using pineapple knots. A pineapple knot is a turks head with another turks head interwoven within. Poking around the web it seems that when most folks tie pineapple knots they utilize a 4, 6 or 8 bight turks head as the base knot. I got to thinking that it would be easy to apply the same methodology to a 2 bight turks head. The first time I tried it I utilized some small polypro chord, but I had a tough time keeping it straight as I made the two bight turks head really long. After thinking about it I decided it would look much better if the knot was tied out of all paracord. You can see the two versions I made here, one in black/green, and the other in blue/orange. The knot at the base is a knife lanyard/lanyard knot. I also made a slide show video for the pineapple knot which is below. I am normally a proponent of making knots "snug", but if you attempt this I would suggest you make it "tight" so as to keep the ends tucked.
My wife asked me to make her a neck lanyard for this hand lens she just got for a nature course she is taking. The only problem is she gave me about 5 minutes to do it. I tied a knife lanyard knot to create the loop for the lens. Then I added a chord lock I bought a while ago to make the lanyard adjustable. Finally a second knife lanyard knot was used to close the loop. Nothing fancy, but effective for a 5 minute tie.
This is the key fob that I tied. I started off with a knife lanyard knot to make a loop out of the black paracord. The covering is a two bight turks head (two bight by eleven leads with three passes) tied using venetian blind cord which was good to work with and snugs up very well. The two bight turks head is a handy knot for covering thin objects. It is also versatile as it can be also cover relatively large diameter objects, and can easily be extended to about any length, as long as one is willing to pull all of the chord through. There is a good tutorial for tying the two bight turks head on the KHWW website. You can also follow the Ashley Book of Knots 1331-1335.
This is a floating key chain I came up with- I took a cork from a wine bottle, poked a hole in it and ran a lanyard line through. I then tied a 6 lead by 5 bight turks head in black around the cork. I then tied a knife lanyard knot and then a simple overhand knot tied very tight to make the key ring attachment. I'll have to try the same kind of key chain wrapping the cork completely including the ends. I do like having the exposed cork as I think it is interesting. This was not an easy piece of work to photograph- I ended up using a phone picture rather than a camera picture. I'm sure if I fiddled with the camera for a couple hours I could have figured it out, but the phone picture turned out okay (could be better).
