M14 Forum

Butzbach

Folks,

Is a knife lanyard mainly for retention during use? If so is there a right way and a wrong way to use it? I'd like to add some 550 para cord lanyards to a couple of Ontario pilot survival knives. I was hoping for advice on:

1. How long should the lanyard be?
2. Would there be an advantage to making the lanyard detachable with some kind of quiet spring hook?
3. Are lanyards used in knife fighting? If so how?

Looking forward to your thoughts and experiences.

CharlieEcho

I can only speculate and say what I've been schooled. If you are going to use your knife where dropping it would lose it or make retrieving impossible, attach a lanyard. A lanyard can also be used to attach the knife to a pole for use as a spear. You are talking about a survival knife.

My sheath was sewn onto my flight suit and the guard had been broken across the two holes for attaching a lanyard. I'd bent the guard, more than once, while learning to throw the knife. I was young once, and I still have that knife.

sac troop

Yea, over water is the most appropriate place for the lanyard, IMHO.

ctdair

http://www.knifetalkforums.com/ubbth...2060#Post92060

Long thread and sized a little large for viewing but here is the best way. I had been taught a different way but it didn't work as nice as this method shown. And it is as Bo Randall instructed.

Whiskey

You can also use a lanyard, especially if it has a cord lock (or a precise loop), to give yourself some extra leverage should you use a knife to chop. I know most knives are not choppers, but I carry an ESEE 5. 1/4 inch thick 1095 steel. I have chopped small trees with it. Anyways, the lanyard lets you back your grip down the handle, but then the lanyard acts almost like a sling on a rifle, giving you solid support. Now, with more weight further forward of the pivot point that is your wrist, your knife just got that much more choppy.

CharlieEcho

The knot shown in the video is what we called in Scouts, the "fisherman's knot". It's really two overhand knots to join the ends of the rope or lanyard together and the harder you pull the tighter it gets. There is also a way to braid the rope or lanyard that keeps it stored out of the way for the most part. It is similar to "whipping" the end of a rope. It's hard to explain.

bigbang

I have lanyards on my hunting knifes. When you are opening a deer or wild boar you have to work first with a knife and then with your hands to get the guts out, turn the animal upside down, and than again with a knife cutting the ribs and so on. All that during dawn in the evening, getting darker. Have you ever searched a put aside knife in thick brush, in the dark, the innards of the deer spread around? A short lanyard around your wrist is a good idea.
Wolf

MesaRifle

Cap'n Stanaback's pix are indeed excellent. Great system, and one I used on my Gerber Mk II and my Dozier. You don't want to lose any good knife, but a good custom? You'd never forgive yourself!

Some of the paracord wraps are also very useful. I do believe... let me look... back in a minute... yeah, here it is...

Check this site out!

http://metalxparacord.com/