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Message started by kicktheotter on Oct 13th, 2018 at 2:53pm

Title: Lots of paracord
Post by kicktheotter on Oct 13th, 2018 at 2:53pm
I've ordered (from my favourite army surplus website) a bundle of 12 lengths of 3-4mm paracord each length being 5-6.5m long. So in total I'll be getting something around 75m of paracord. Now that will make a lot of paracord slings but I'm also thinking of what else I could do with it. Any suggestions for cool things I could make? :D

Title: Re: Lots of paracord
Post by Mersa on Oct 13th, 2018 at 6:31pm
Just make lots of slings. ;)

Title: Re: Lots of paracord
Post by walter on Oct 13th, 2018 at 7:47pm
a braided pcord belt or three :)

Title: Re: Lots of paracord
Post by kicktheotter on Oct 14th, 2018 at 3:17am
I had a search around and one thing I've wanted to make for awhile is a paracord whip and this looks pretty good :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLz8wxHX3eY

Title: Re: Lots of paracord
Post by Morphy on Oct 14th, 2018 at 9:57am
A whip would be cool. What about a paracord bolas? Ever used one? They are a lot of fun.

Title: Re: Lots of paracord
Post by kicktheotter on Oct 14th, 2018 at 10:52am
I've made one paracord one before using large hex nuts as the weights and then one braided string one using large washers but I do like the look of monkey fist bolas. Both the ones I have at the moment are pretty... rough. Having a nicely done paracord one would be pretty sweet :D

Title: Re: Lots of paracord
Post by NooneOfConsequence on Oct 15th, 2018 at 1:22am
I’ll second the whip idea. That’s a project that’s been on my (eventually) to-do list for a while. You can also make monkeys fists, which could be used as bolas or for a variety of other uses.

Title: Re: Lots of paracord
Post by kicktheotter on Oct 15th, 2018 at 2:46am
I've tried monkey fists before and they've come out ok but not nearly as nice as the one I got from you NOC. I still need some more practice with it. I was thinking I'd truly got the hang of it then yesterday caught myself in the shoulder :D

Title: Re: Lots of paracord
Post by Curious Novice on Oct 15th, 2018 at 1:50pm
Use it to hang a dipole antenna in the trees

Title: Re: Lots of paracord
Post by Curious Aardvark on Oct 15th, 2018 at 2:08pm
I tend to buy 100 metre reels of paracord :-)

Pretty much just use it for slings.

Title: Re: Lots of paracord
Post by kicktheotter on Oct 19th, 2018 at 2:32am
Made my first sling and I wanted to keep it simple so made basically the simplest sling you can make. One thing that sets it apart is that it's really pretty massive. 284cm end to end. I've been using it to throw a tennis ball for the dogs we've been looking after for the week and it works really well. It really highlights somehing about slinging I love. You really don't need fancy materials or spend months braiding to have a good sling. You can do those things and end up with a beautiful and functional sling but a piece of paracord can work just as well.
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Title: Re: Lots of paracord
Post by kicktheotter on Oct 19th, 2018 at 2:33am
He hasn't got the idea of bringing the tennis ball back to me but he's getting better :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nJyT1KNjLU

Title: Re: Lots of paracord
Post by Mersa on Oct 19th, 2018 at 4:21am
Ah a noodle , RS would be proud.

Title: Re: Lots of paracord
Post by Rat Man on Oct 19th, 2018 at 1:44pm
For many years I've made my own dog leashes based on the Rockman Sling.  I'll post a picture later.  I usually use Polypropylene but Paracord works just fine too.

Title: Re: Lots of paracord
Post by perpetualstudent on Oct 19th, 2018 at 6:41pm
If you're into decorative knots at all. I would get a book from the library and tie it for the first time with the uncut paracord, measure how much it took, and then cut that amount off plus whatever it's going to hang from, and tie it again. Good way to tie a new knot a couple of times and get an idea how much each knot takes .

Title: Re: Lots of paracord
Post by Tomas on Oct 20th, 2018 at 6:34am
Turks head knots are fun. You could do some handle wraps too. A netted item like a sling ammo bag. Bolas a dog collar..... that’s all I can think of right now

Title: Re: Lots of paracord
Post by kicktheotter on Nov 6th, 2018 at 6:54am
The ball bearings I needed finally turned up and, after lots of hard braiding, I finally got this together. It came out pretty good but has far from perfect braiding and the end knot is... serviceable. I think this stuff is actually quite different to the 550 cord you can buy everywhere as it didn't actually have much of core and doesn't easily squish down flat for braiding. As such, the whole whip is pretty chunky and not quite as sleek as most paraord whips. It's not going to win any competitions but this cracks pretty damn loud even with the very quickly improvised cracker so I'm happy.

I still have a hell of a lot of paracord so I guess I'll be making some different sling variations, SITH is coming up after all :D

Will I be making another whip? Not for a long while. My fingers are still hurting and this was a small whip...
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