Paracord headphones

I'm not always careful about wrapping my headphones, which means they're usually a tangled mess when I take them out of my pocket. I thought that using paracord for headphones would be a good idea because paracord doesn't tangle easily. I also had a couple of hands-free single speaker earbuds with a 2.5mm jack for an old phone which were useless to me now that I have a phone that takes a 3.5mm jack.

You could do a variation of this project to include the microphone and one button remote button, but if you do that, make sure you have a jack with 4 collars to connect all the wires. Another, easier variation is to use wider paracord that fits over the insulation so you don't have to strip the wires at all. These instructions assume you're using the same kind of earbuds I did, so you may need to alter it to fit your supplies.


 

Step 1 Materials and tools

Materials:
a few feet of 2mm paracord (not the standard 3mm)
old headphones or two old single-speaker earbuds
a 3.5 mm jack (Be sure to use the jack size that fits your phone. Also, you can use the one from existing headphones if you're OK with soldering the wires back together)
shrink wrap tubing

Tools:
wire cutters
wire stripper
a lighter or matches
fishing line
something sharp and pokey and/or flat and pokey