After you've filled up the space between the buckles with knots, trim
the leftover cord ends off with your scissors, melt the ends and press them onto the surrounding cord so it attaches as it hardens and won't come loose. *Be careful that you don't 
burn yourself.I've also put this tutorial up on the Instructables website.
On my main blog page, Stormdrane's Blog, you can see various other paracord lanyards, fobs, keychains, bracelets, collars, belt, and a guitar strap that I've made as well as links for more knot related books and online links for knot related information.*Further tips for paracord bracelets: If the side release buckle is large enough, you can loop the paracord around them again before you start knotting, to fill in the extra room on the buckle.
The 1/2" side release buckles are a tight fit for this, but will work, and the 5/8" size are just right.
This leaves a two strand core for the bracelet when you start knotting.
Now, you could also have a four strand core by starting with a lark's head on the first buckle end, double wrap on second buckle end(at your wrist size), run cord back to and over the first buckle end, then start knotting over the four strand core.
Or, for a six strand core, lark's head first buckle, run the two strands around second buckle(at your wrist size), back to and around first buckle(now has four strands around), then back to and around second buckle, and start knotting around the six core strands.
This gives extra cord in case you need it for whatever, but it also makes the paracord bracelets thicker and more rounded, which I personally didn't care for and that's why I stick with the two strand core. YMMV
17 comments:
Great work where can I buy 2 in OD
If you want to buy a paracord bracelet, I recommend Eric Isaacson on BladeForums(www.bladeforums.com). Look under the Exchange section under Individual gadgets/gear for sale.
You can also try Ken Cardwel, his site is www.knivesandlanyards.com
Excellent instructions! Thank you so much for publishing them! Financy
Holy cow! It's Macrame! Good job!
Yes, macrame enthusiasts know it as square knotting.
Scouts, sailors, soldiers, marines, and knot heads know it as the square/reef knot, Solomon bar, or Portuguese sinnet.
Children learn it with gimp, scoubi, scoobie, scoubidou, or boondoggle as the cobra stitch.
And in Chinese knotting is known as the flat knot.
Examples of the reef/square knot have been dated as far back as 10,000 years old, but since organic materials used for knots rarely survive very long, there's no telling how long humans have been using it and the manner of it's usage.
Until books started being published and available to the masses over the last few hundred years, most knotting knowledge was learned from person to person. Kinda makes ya wonder what's been lost to time or just waiting to be re-discovered... =)
Thanks for the great idea and help! Appreciate the time and effort you went to to share this.
Gerry
The design is not new, but when I couldn't find any instruction in books or online on how to attach a side release buckle, I figured it out on my own(not too hard ;) ) and had to share the info with a tutorial. I'm glad it's been helpful to many.
Would you mind explaining how to tie this same bracelet but with more inner strands (to bulk the bracelet up/use more cord)?
I was able to follow your incredibly clear instructions to tie a bracelet in about 20 minutes but I'm stuck with how to double or triple up the core to make the bracelet thicker.
Also, how would I go about using two contrasting strands of cord to create a patterned bracelet?
I understand the cobra stitch but can't wrap my head around the tying pattern for attaching multiple strands and/or two different colored strands to the side buckles.
Any help would be most appreciated!
If you use a larger buckle, like the 5/8" size, you can loop onto one end as you would making the regular paracord bracelet, then run the cord thru the other end, figuring the length, then run the cords back and around the starting end, then again back to the other buckle. From there you start knotting. You'll have six strands to knot around from there. I does make the bracelet thicker and more rounded, and I personally prefer it flatter. The benefit is adding 2 to 3 feet more cord to the bracelet.
To use two colors, you sew, melt, or glue two colors together. That point will be the center section of the cord you're using and will be located just to the side of looping onto the buckle and hidden as the core strands. Tie the bracelet as you normally would and the two different cords give the two-tone pattern. The pattern will be different on each side of the bracelet, center section one color and outer edge the other. You decide which side you want facing out when you start knotting.
Aha! That makes perfect sense! Thanks so much for your instructions and explanation!
After reading your reply and experimenting some more, I found that I could use two differently colored, separate strands of paracord and build the bracelet as in your instructions, then weave an outer layer of paracord using the two remaining free strands, making a very solid and wide bracelet.
Thank you again for your amazing instructions and help with my questions! Keep up the great work!
fantastic work...very good instruction...thank you so much for sharing these valuable information with us. really nice work.
Thanks a lot for your tutorials, Storm. My son and I are hooked with making paracord bracelets and have already distributed some among frieds and family.
We've tried to make them with two different colors, like we've seen in different websites, but haven't been able to come up with a decent start and finish. Could you share with us how to get this done?
Thanks in advance.
Nemo
You can sew, melt, or glue(one drop of super glue) two colors together, then loop onto one buckle end keeping the attached section of the cords where they'll be the 'core' of the bracelet. From there you knot as usual.
Wow. I love these. Thanks for your great tutorial. So many possibilities...only limited by the imagination. Fantastic, clear instructions. You're terrific for posting these for us!!
Wonderful instructions - thank you so much for taking the time to post! Can't wait to try making something....
Check out the editor we built at http://paracycle.se see what you think stormdrane.
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