First attempt at a paracord knife handle wrap

[JAB]

This weekend I picked up a Buck Paklite

 

 

I decided to try my hand at doing some kind of paracord treatment on the handle.  I looked up a couple of tutorials for various handle wrap styles but ended up coming up with one on my own.  I am almost certainly not the first person to use this style but I did come up with it independently, not from any tutorial, etc.  I think it turned out pretty good.  It provides a nice, positive and pretty comfortable grip without being extremely bulky.  I was pretty pleased as, for whatever reason, I seem to have had a 'mental block' about working with the various paracord stitches up to this point but after doing this (and watching a couple of tutorials) I have now at least figured out the cobra stitch and maybe a few others.

 

 

 

 

 

The wrap is one piece of paracord, somewhere between six and seven feet long.  I started by centering the cord in the lanyard hole (middle of the length of cord) and then passing each end of the cord in opposite directions through the hole at the finger choil  and back through the lanyard hole until I had three strands running lengthwise to the handle on each side with both ends ending up at the blade end of the handle.  I then started going around the handle, each end starting in a different direction, alternately weaving them over/under the three lengthwise strands.  I did realize after I had finished that I got out of sync on one pass of one of the strands (that is why the 'stitch' about halfway up the spine of the handle doesn't look exactly right) but decided it wasn't bad enough to warrant unraveling the whole thing back to that point.  Not yet, anyhow.

 

This weave will also work, in a slightly modified form, on a solid handle as I will show in another thread about a different project I did this past weekend.  Yeah, for me this past weekend was pretty much all about paracord.

Edited September 29, 2014 by JAB

[DWARREN123]

Nice wrap.

[Grand Torino]

I wish I could learn to do that but I'm afraid that's hopeless. :lol:  You did one helluva job...it looks great. :up:

[rugerla1]

Great job, I like the looks of the paracord handles. Never had one, but it looks like it would be comfortable enough and useful in an emergency as well.

[xjsnake]

I have a paklite that I've done a similar treatment on, It's a great knife to toss in a field bag and forget is there till you need it.

[Monkeyman2500]

That looks great!!

[leroy]

Looks great...! 

 

leroy

[Motasyco]

Nice job on the wrap.  Nice knife too.