Knife Lanyard

Summers are short here in Maine and there is a tendency to try to pack as much in as you can.  That hasn't left me with much time for knots.  In all the running around a managed to loose my pocket knife, so I took the opportunity to try out this Spyderco Persistence.  I have always been intrigued by the look of Spyderco knives.  I am on a budget, so I elected to go with the Persistence which is one of Spyderco's inexpensive, chinese made models. So far I am happy with it.

For the lanyard I purchased a pair of 72" boot laces from Kiwi. I made a loop using a double knife lanyard knot using one of the laces. This knot is also known as a double diamond knot, and makes a nice knob on a lanyard.  It works best if you have a relatively stiff cord.  JD of Tying It All Together did this recent video of the double diamond knot. Around the loop I tied a long 2 bight turks head. Stormdrane has a very good video for this turks head and as I've mentioned previously it is a great knot for tying around long, thin items such as lanyards.

Turks Head Knife

I use a paring knife to cut string when I am knotting.  If find a paring knife useful for getting in close to make a final cut at the end of a tie.  Instead of constantly raiding the kitchen drawers, I bought a knife to use specifically for knot work.  Of course, I couldn't just leave it plain.  The handle is a turks head tied with 4 stands which lead to a 4 bight turks head.  I doubled the black, and then traced the red in through.  The red is all one strand traced through.  I wanted some kind of blade cover, mostly just in case my son or dogs get into the knot tools.  All I did was triple over a stiff piece of cardboard, straight whip it and then tie a 4 lead by 3 bight turks head at each end. The blade cover probably won't last forever, but is functional.  There is a string led from the blade cover so I can tie it off as an additional safety.  I left the handle end eye opening.  Perhaps I'll get to tying a lanyard for it at some point.