How to Tie the Lanyard Knot

Many people including myself have had trouble following the Stormdrane youtube video on tying the lanyard knot so i have done some research and found the solution!

Step 1 Materials

All you need is a reasonable length of para cord or whatever you wish to use.

Comments

[coolo52]

i personally think that stormdrane's video made sense. i was able to tighten the knot just because of watching his video and how he out the tips through the "diamond", i guess it wouldnt look like that because i put the ends in wrong. i will admit that his video is a bit confusing but he does the same thing as you just with a slightly different method

[coolo52]

i made this but i cant tighten it to look like that. any tips?

[jolora]

How does this work for tying a lanyard knot in the middle of a very long rope, say 100 feet, with other lanyard knots tied in it? I cannot see feeding that much rope through the loops as this demonstration shows.

[pootwaddle]

jolora - one of the "tricks" to learn is to push a "bight" of cord through and then pull the long part through - fast and easy, with no extra twists to the cord.

-or-
wind the excess cord around a spool so you only have to pull a short bit through
each time....

[dp mac]

i like, very good my apprentice

[pyrosniperfreak]

BAM! Nailed it first try. Thanks a bunch! Great instructable!

[Esque]

Absolutely the simplest, easiest tutorial for this knot I've found, and I've tried a few!!! Many thanks for posting this!!!

[- D]

This is the best tutorial I've ever found. It even beats the videos easily. I couldn't get it with the others, it got with this one on the first try. Thanks for posting it.

[furir]

This was the easiest way to tie this knot I've seen so far. Thanks for the tutorial.

[Loenja]

this is the best tutorial i have found on the web, the others are too confusing, great work

[adamtyoung]

Hmmm. Having trouble tightening it to look like this. Any tips?

[bridgmicks]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[ekcan]

These are the best instructions for the lanyard knot. Thank you so much!

[Civbert]

Excellent. I've worked several approaches to this knot, and this one was the best.

[Rebel Fan]

Easiest instructions on it so far. Thanks!

[chi chi chippy]

ive been trying to tie this buy non of the videos seem to deminstrate it without a hand in the way. thanks for the ible, best lanyard knot tutorial

[Kuribosboots]

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[Shiseiji]

Eddy, thanks. Kuribosboots, as Stormdrain notes in his blog, there are many differences in how we all learn knots and there he provides several links to different lessons for this knot. Eddy has added another and obviously helped many. I find pictures with multi-colored strands and a single bend at a time helps my poor simple mind a lot. See if this helps: http://www.folsoms.net/knots/ Select "Fifty knots" on the left and then #27 I struggle with orientation more now than I used to. Age I guess. So I copied/pasted the pictures into PowerPoint (or Open Office Presenter) and then rotated them 180 degrees so the orientation is the same as if I was holding a completed sinnet band with the working ends running away from me.

[GIJohn]

Thanks for the ring finger tip, makes it that much easier.

[henhan]

this is the best.tied it the first time!

[eddy14777]

I'm glad i could help!

[nk97]

Nicely done! I found out how to tie one, but with just one strand (without doubling it). Your 'ible showed me how to do it with two strands. Goog job. 

[eddy14777]

I'm glad i could help!

[maoddo]

Great piece! I struggled with this knot for hours trying to follow  various instructions and videos. I was able to complete the knot the first time using this< Thanks!

[eddy14777]

I'm glad i could help!