Hey Knife Guy,

I do have some glow cord that looks white during the day time, but it glows in the dark once the lights go out or the sun goes down. What I do sometimes when making a fob or lanyard with earth tone or camo colors is to braid/weave in a piece of the glow cord. That way you still have a lanyard/fob that isn't brightly colored, but it has reflective qualities as well. The other thing I do sometimes when I don't want a brightly colored lanyard/fob is to include a pull tab on the end with a glowing insert like I did on the below pictured Swamp Warden.



I would be glad to help you come up with some ideas for your Benchmade, or make something up for you in the mean time and send it over so you don't lose it. Just tell me what colors you like.

And yes, that One-Hand Trekker would be hard to lose. Not only is it brightly colored, it also has glow-in-the-dark scales that you can read a map by!

Tolly,

I have apparently "seen" the glow-white cord without giving it much attention. It never really occured to me about the potential values. I will need to look into that more for some of my fixed bladed lanyards and fobs.

If you have anything made up with the glow cord mixed braid, Please post some pics. I would love to see how a glow cord mix might look more natural or white (???).

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I find it much easier to put a lanyard or fob on my fixed blades. I have many of my fixed blades set up with lanyards or fobs.

..... But, I am having a hard time thinking up what I would want on any of my folders. I don't typically like things hanging off my folders or out of my rear pocket with my rear pocket clipped knives.

I have actually NEVER had any of my clipped folders fall out of my rear pocket and I have been carrying rear pocket clipped folders for MANY years. But, I guess I was climbing around a LOT on a tree we were cutting up. The tree was at about a 40 degree angle and I had been shimming around the trunk sitting on it to limb a big pine with bow saw and chain saw while it was still up in the air. I was shimming around the tree for over an hour. The limbs had to be removed to prevent damaging other trees, pool, landscaping, kids swing and a bunch of stuff before we started dropping large parts of the trunk. I was the monkey. I probably should have taken it out of my rear pocket before getting up into the tree, but I didn't and it must have fallen out while I was doing that (????). I am just lucky we found it and it didn't get burried into the ground or thrown out with tons of debris.

I have to feel this was an unusual situation that wouldn't likely happen again. But, I was pretty upset for about 18 hours between noticing it gone Saturday night and finding it Sunday afternoon. I love that knife. (as I do most of my knives....)

But, I just can't figure out what (if anything) I would want attached to any of my rear pocket folders. (??????)

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I am NO expert. I have made a couple of Monkey's fist fobs and some very simple lanyards.

But, I researched this a few months ago and made myself a word doc with some info and links.

The following links have some Awesome info, tutorials and ideas for those interested:

This guy has TONS of awesome project ideas, tutorials, info, etc. all on his blog: (*** Just keep clicking "Older Posts" at the bottom for more and more and more stuff...)


Stormdrane's Blog



This site has some good basics:

AnimatedKnots.com


This combination of Cobra Stitch and Monkey's fist is one of my favorite fob designs:



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I'll see what I have laying around I can snap some pics of.

Quick note on folders: I generally do not put anything on my personal folders unless they do not have a pocket clip. Then I just put a fob on them to make pulling them from my pocket easier. However, I have made several of the SnakeKnot lanyards like the Red&Black one in my original post for friends who will attach them to their folders whenever they are going to be doing anything out in the woods that might cause their prized$$$$$$$ folder to become dislodged. They will just affix the loop of the lanyard through the lanyard/thong hole of their knife and then clip off the Lobster clasp to a belt loop. They then clip the knife into their pocket as usual. This set up gives the advantage of added sucurity if you are going to be doing a lot of woodswalking, climbing, crawling, hacking your way through thick brush and so on. If the knife does get knocked out of your pocket, you won't lose it because it's still clipped to your belt loop.

Whenever you are done doing whatever the activity was that required the lanyard, just take it off and go back to using it as a key chain or put it away until you need it again.

Tolly,

I think you might have hit the nail on the head for me.

I have some pretty nice lobster claws I picked up from Lighthound.com when I bought a couple of LED flashlights from them.

Like this:



See: Lighthound.com


It would be pretty easy to rig up a few to clip to belt loops in certain situations.

But, I generally just don't think I would want anything on my clipped folders.

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Tolly,

Have you seen any paracord that has that "glow white" thread woven into a less dominately white cord?

All of the glow cords I have seen have been solid glow cord. But, it seems like they could just weave say 10% - 15% white glow thread in with kacki and brown tones that would look less blinding during the day and still functionally glow well at night.

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Awesome Paracord braiding Tolly! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

I really like the colors too, very nice!

Yes, what you are wanting is called tracer cord. It is just a tad smaller in diameter than 550 and it is hard to find. I think I have some around here in a few different colors. Let me see what I can find around here later and I'll see if I can fix you up.

Thank you Sir!

So Tolly, where did you get the info to make them? Books, website...?

"The Ashley Book of Knots" is your friend. Learn the knots and then experiment with ways to use them in making things. That book is a must have! You can buy it online. You can also google up some tutorials for paracord projects, but the book is the way to go.

thanks for the tip.