Thank you for doing this Tutorial. I’m an Old DAV with memory issues and try to keep busy and the Audio from this was so helpful in me remembering which way to loop, the British Voice is just so memorable i didn’t have any issues and I will remember this without having to reference the Video like I have to on so many others. Semper Fidelis
While I'm not a fan of random dangly bits on my sharp tools, I have used this snake lanyard with a diamond knot stopper as a zipper pull like you mentioned on practically everything I own. The flexibility and uniform size is ideal for me compared to the stiff and asymmetrical wraps like cobra. And it's always oh so very satisfying to cut off all the loud clinking clacking metal zippers and make your gear finally just be QUIET. Give it a try if you haven't already! 👌
Thank you for showing us how to do this; it was simple and easy to follow. However, try as I may, I just cannot get it to look like 2:57. I think my clumsy fingers and/or brain gets the sides mixed up, so it just doesn't look quite right.
Easiest tutorial to follow. Thank you. I've done it on two of my knives now. I used to hate lanyards on my knives because I couldn't get them nice but thanks to you and your amazing video, I was able to do it with ease.
Holy shit, for 20 years I wanted to learn how to do stuff like this with Paracord for the knives I make, and have always struggled. Either the videos I watched were too fast, or the person trying to teach would talk and go on and on, about something irrelevant. You taught me how to do this particular knot, in literally 3 minutes, you sir, have gained a follower, thank you so much.
this is so cool! i did it on my Gerber Swagger (Edit: my Gerber Swagger got stolen so i now put one of these on my CRKT Overland Compact but the paracord has a little bead on it!)
Hah! I’ve been doing the same with a cobra weave but using 1/8” paracord. Felt it might be a tad cleaner for the pocket…. I thought I was being clever, but I guess not…. 😂😂. Plus, I’ve made them about 3 inches long so it could serve as cordage on a bow drill for fire starting or who knows what?
Hidden talents, I like the Compact but I dont understand what I'm going to use it for, pens are more suitable for my situation......??, a Solo alox will do for the slip 😳😳😳🤔
Thx so much John. I have looked at so many TH-cam to try & get this & boom you explained it so so easily. Wonderful job...could you maybe do a tutorial with a couple of colours & beads? :)
I has a loving cold steel Japanese tanto it would look better with that lanyard I had to do it with my legal carry pocket knives too thanks buddy 🇮🇹👍🐾🦊🇬🇧
Try as I might to tie this night I keep unintentionally, tying nooses, and finding myself fighting the urge to take a swing from one of them. The cause for this out of character spontaneous self destruction? I consulted a professional, and it has been determined the cause is without a doubt this funny looking booger’s voice. I was surprised at first when I got those results, thought about it for a second, and then felt great foe pinpointing the problem and awful for having watched it so many times. Sorry, folks, I will stop typing and go do something else, such as enjoy a breakfast of kitty litter and mothballs, or fukin anything slightly more enjoining than this video.
Bless you for making this video the way you made it. I'm SO BAD at braiding (ask my daughter 😳). But your slow and deliberate method while repeating your steps actually got thru my Neanderthal skull. Now I've got a bunch of nicely braided knives and I can stop buying the dang pre-made lanyards! Thank you and cheers!
Thanks, very helpful! Excellent tutorial. I've done cobra stitch knots alternating the loop side to side, but I like the look of the snake knot better. I've also added a bead in the middle of my lanyards as Reeve does, and then finished the lanyard which sets them off and helps with a smaller knife like the Spyderco McBee. You can also experiment with removing the 7 center strands first. The cord will lay a bit flatter if that's the look you want, and is just as strong. Finally, what I've done on my last few is tie them OFF the knife, say on a hook or dowel sticking up, with the loop that goes through the lanyard hole approx. 1.5" long depending on the placement of the lanyard hole in the knife. That way you can easily take them off and put them on the knife as needed, or move them to another knife or multitool.
Jon, this was very helpful! And I see that you tied this knot on one of my favorite slip joints - the Real Steel Luna Lite! I like your version with the contrasting dark scales and brass(?) hardware. Very nice, indeed!
Just thinking couldnt i tie the double snake knot but without using the same line when it comes time to double the know up before sinching it couldnt you feed in another color and use that as the double up ends and pull it all together
Hiya Jon, everyone of these TH-cam snake knot tutorials seems to be slightly different; backwards, forwards, upside down and behind, you name it. I come here and I get it the first time I tried it; being somewhat dyslexic I learn by rote. Once I get it, it becomes carved in stone, but I have to get it first and you are the best teacher. Thanks.
Omg. Why have i never heard "over the top and underneath; underneath and over the top"? I've been struggling all day with this stupid knot. Thank you simplifying this for my uncoordinated dumb fingers. Lol
Great job, Jon ! Im really enjoying your gadget vids ! Just ordered a Victorinox mini champ based upon your glowing review. This will be my 4th or 5th Victorinox. Never a real big fan of the classic red handle, and think the alox really classes things up !
Holy shit that first knot you did was so confusing. If anybody else is confused just skip ahead and watch some of his other knots which are much better examples of what he's doing.
One thing that would make this process more efficient wood be to anchor or secure the item you are working with to keep it from moving around making it more enjoyable! Otherwise good explanation l
This is by far the easiest snake knot tutorial I've seen on TH-cam yet. The other ones make it way more complicate than it needs to be. I'll be adding lanyards to my new ZT, Hogue, and Cold Steel knives along with a couple of beads I think they will look much nicer. Also going to be replacing the cheap square braid string that came on my CRKT SPEW with a small snake knot lanyard using some Nano cord that I just got in my recent paracord shipment.
After just learning this knot from this video and a little bit practice. It's super straight forward once you done a few knots. Here's some tips I've found. Melt the ends BEFORE you start the knot so rope doesn't stays intact as you go. for stability place the object in between some headphones .
Ay Up John, been subbed for a year, love your content, thanks for presenting this. Also I've got impaired hearing & your voice is easy for me to listen too, don't know owt about the technics of intonation or how/why but it's nice to watch your stuff without subtitles. Thanks again merry Xmas & be well ✊
P.S. Accidentally made the lanyard loop around the bottle's cap ring (an aluminium Sigg bottle), so I couldn't take it off. After spending at an event I used my subway ride home to re-do the lanyard such that it loops around itself and can be taken off.
Nice always good to know what it is called in English. Here it is called, roughly translated, a round knot. Please keep making your interesting videos they are lovely.
That made it simple. Thanks. Even though I was twitching like a madman because you didn’t put the knife in a vise or stop it some kind of way from falling over. That’s my only petty little complaint. Lol
I went into the lanyards for my knifes like crazy. Bought the paracord, started with the snake knot, thought to myself "this ain't so hard", went to the next level of knots and....... went back to the trusty old snake knot which is the style of lanyard knots all of my knifes now sport... I simply couldn't learn the more intricate and technically more demanding knots... I simply don't have the fingers nor the nerves for it. And I do love lanyards. Not only they are aesteticaly pleasing to my eye (despite the fact they are all made out of the simplest snake knots with an occasional lanyard bead), but they serve an incredible role of making the pulling of the knife out of the trousers faster and more convenient. All of my knifes have lanyards on them except some oddballs that for some reason don't have the lanyard hole (looking at you Benchmade Osborne..)
Hi Jonathan, I've been looking for a simple way to do this for a long time and your video is brilliant. Thank you for your work, I'm going to view more of it!
As many others have already commented, this video has the clearest and simplest instructions of how to make a paracord snake knot of any of those that I have previously watched. I spent a few frustrating hours yesterday trying to follow instructions from other videos on the subject. In contrast, I knew exactly how to tie the snake knot after seeing and listening while the first knot was being tied in this video. SMH - it's really that simple?!? Thank you so much for taking the time to do this video!
Thank you sooo Much i just did my First Snake knot Lanyard for My Voctorinox Pioneer ♡ And the funny thing is my paracord looks Kind of a Snake its green yellow and black Pretty awesome 😄
Thank you for doing this Tutorial. I’m an Old DAV with memory issues and try to keep busy and the Audio from this was so helpful in me remembering which way to loop, the British Voice is just so memorable i didn’t have any issues and I will remember this without having to reference the Video like I have to on so many others. Semper Fidelis
No idea why I watched this, but it raises the question: Can we get this guy to make EVERY YT instructional vid?
Wonderful video. Great quality and succinct. Thank you!
Good to hear feedback, especially from those with experience of the brand 👍
Thanks for the video 😊
When you're right, you're right. When you're wrong, it's usually because you over complicated things. This video got it right!
Thank you
Thank you!
Well done! Thank you! Great and informative.
Thank you sir for the tutorial. Btw what kind of size in millimeter paracord in this video?
👍🏼thank you sir. Couldn’t quite remember how. :)
thanks John
By the watching from Payson, Utah.
Thank you!
Thank you for making this 100 times simpler then the other videos out there. 👍
no problem - thanks for the feedback
Yeah I managed to make a nice one for my Rovy A29 first attempt 👍🏻
I thought the same thing . Made one for a baby banter 😂
😊
Outstanding instructional video! Thank you for being effective AND efficient. 😎👍
Very helpful, I’m thirteen and very into bushcraft, so I added a ferro rod button on the end.
The quality of the videos is outstanding. Well done!
Thank you Eyal, much appreciated.
Thank God someone that actually repeats for the knot challenged ppl like me. Thank you👍🏽
While I'm not a fan of random dangly bits on my sharp tools, I have used this snake lanyard with a diamond knot stopper as a zipper pull like you mentioned on practically everything I own. The flexibility and uniform size is ideal for me compared to the stiff and asymmetrical wraps like cobra. And it's always oh so very satisfying to cut off all the loud clinking clacking metal zippers and make your gear finally just be QUIET.
Give it a try if you haven't already! 👌
Thank you for showing us how to do this; it was simple and easy to follow. However, try as I may, I just cannot get it to look like 2:57. I think my clumsy fingers and/or brain gets the sides mixed up, so it just doesn't look quite right.
Easiest tutorial to follow. Thank you. I've done it on two of my knives now. I used to hate lanyards on my knives because I couldn't get them nice but thanks to you and your amazing video, I was able to do it with ease.
Holy shit, for 20 years I wanted to learn how to do stuff like this with Paracord for the knives I make, and have always struggled. Either the videos I watched were too fast, or the person trying to teach would talk and go on and on, about something irrelevant. You taught me how to do this particular knot, in literally 3 minutes, you sir, have gained a follower, thank you so much.
It's so dang easy once you get down the basics with some practice.
Thanks a lot, I can now remember how to start the knot, and you have made it easier than any of the other videos I have seen. Great stuff.
🇺🇸🙋♀️🐴🍃 Woww so nice! Thank you! 4:39
Thank you for the video. I was able to follow you pretty well. I just attached a lanyard to my knife because of your video. Excellent job sir.😊
this is so cool! i did it on my Gerber Swagger
(Edit: my Gerber Swagger got stolen so i now put one of these on my CRKT Overland Compact but the paracord has a little bead on it!)
Thanks dad. It also helps to note, this will still take some practice to get just right. It did for me.
Well done. I like that knot and now I can actually tie it.
Perfect 👌
Thank you very much Jon, a great job very well explained and presented, my first ever lanyard turned out great.👍
Thanks again
Sam
2:10 looking pretty frustrated
You made this SOOOOOO much easier to follow and understand compared to every other video EVER made! Thank you so much!!
Beginners like myself, if you watch at 0.5x speed, it's much easier to listen and follow along! Great video.
I followed your instructional video and I am pleased to say, the results are most excellent! Thanks again!
Interesting that you're working on one knife but then grab an SAK for the effort. Long live the SAK!
I wanted to put a Pioneer X in here (the Orange one) but just too big for this sleeve - SAK all the way
Hah! I’ve been doing the same with a cobra weave but using 1/8” paracord. Felt it might be a tad cleaner for the pocket…. I thought I was being clever, but I guess not…. 😂😂. Plus, I’ve made them about 3 inches long so it could serve as cordage on a bow drill for fire starting or who knows what?
Hidden talents, I like the Compact but I dont understand what I'm going to use it for, pens are more suitable for my situation......??, a Solo alox will do for the slip 😳😳😳🤔
It’s late, early rather lol and I want to try this soooo bad because it looks very good. Time for bed though, well done 👍🏻
😊🙏
Thx so much John. I have looked at so many TH-cam to try & get this & boom you explained it so so easily. Wonderful job...could you maybe do a tutorial with a couple of colours & beads? :)
I has a loving cold steel Japanese tanto it would look better with that lanyard I had to do it with my legal carry pocket knives too thanks buddy 🇮🇹👍🐾🦊🇬🇧
I always use a 13 wrap hangman knot for my lanyard knots, but I may give this a try. Maybe use a bead on the tail instead of melting the cord.
Try as I might to tie this night I keep unintentionally, tying nooses, and finding myself fighting the urge to take a swing from one of them. The cause for this out of character spontaneous self destruction?
I consulted a professional, and it has been determined the cause is without a doubt this funny looking booger’s voice. I was surprised at first when I got those results, thought about it for a second, and then felt great foe pinpointing the problem and awful for having watched it so many times.
Sorry, folks, I will stop typing and go do something else, such as enjoy a breakfast of kitty litter and mothballs, or fukin anything slightly more enjoining than this video.
Bless you for making this video the way you made it. I'm SO BAD at braiding (ask my daughter 😳). But your slow and deliberate method while repeating your steps actually got thru my Neanderthal skull. Now I've got a bunch of nicely braided knives and I can stop buying the dang pre-made lanyards! Thank you and cheers!
Thanks, Going to get some paracord and try this tomorrow for my new spyderco ladybug3
Thanks, very helpful! Excellent tutorial. I've done cobra stitch knots alternating the loop side to side, but I like the look of the snake knot better. I've also added a bead in the middle of my lanyards as Reeve does, and then finished the lanyard which sets them off and helps with a smaller knife like the Spyderco McBee. You can also experiment with removing the 7 center strands first. The cord will lay a bit flatter if that's the look you want, and is just as strong. Finally, what I've done on my last few is tie them OFF the knife, say on a hook or dowel sticking up, with the loop that goes through the lanyard hole approx. 1.5" long depending on the placement of the lanyard hole in the knife. That way you can easily take them off and put them on the knife as needed, or move them to another knife or multitool.
Jon, this was very helpful! And I see that you tied this knot on one of my favorite slip joints - the Real Steel Luna Lite! I like your version with the contrasting dark scales and brass(?) hardware. Very nice, indeed!
Great knife and thank you
This method is easier to keep ends even than the other left/right loop method.
Thank you!
Fast and easy.Thanks.justwondering if anyone can give me details of what model knife is in the video.
Thanks for sharing. I just put a lanyard on my on my leatherman charge using this knot.
Just thinking couldnt i tie the double snake knot but without using the same line when it comes time to double the know up before sinching it couldnt you feed in another color and use that as the double up ends and pull it all together
This is so cool and your description is good enough that i tied it myself right away. Thanks !
great 👍
Hiya Jon, everyone of these TH-cam snake knot tutorials seems to be slightly different; backwards, forwards, upside down and behind, you name it. I come here and I get it the first time I tried it; being somewhat dyslexic I learn by rote. Once I get it, it becomes carved in stone, but I have to get it first and you are the best teacher. Thanks.
Love your vids but the lighting obscures some of the action.
👍👍👍👍
Easy, simple and straight to the point. 😂
Lol thanks was simple enuff i managed to do it on my knife. If i can do it anyone can
Perfectly understandable, thanks.
You’re welcome.
After watching over half a dozen videos on how to tie a shake knot, this simple explanation is by far the best out there. Thank you
I regret never going to boy scouts. I'm going to put this knot on everything I see.
Omg. Why have i never heard "over the top and underneath; underneath and over the top"? I've been struggling all day with this stupid knot. Thank you simplifying this for my uncoordinated dumb fingers. Lol
you're welcome
Brilliant! Thanks to you I finally got it right!!!🎉😊
Try using duck tape to hold the knife steady on the table.
Hi Jon. Where did you purchase that great leather case? I love it!
Hi - this one came from Etsy from FoxEDC
Well done! Easy instructions to follow. Thank you! Looks great! Just what I'm looking for.
Love it.
E Z P Z Great video. Thanks!
Amazing !
Great teaching skills 💪🏼
Great job as always. Simple, straight forward and easy to understand. 👍
Great job, Jon ! Im really enjoying your gadget vids ! Just ordered a Victorinox mini champ based upon your glowing review. This will be my 4th or 5th Victorinox. Never a real big fan of the classic red handle, and think the alox really classes things up !
Glad you’re enjoying the channel 👍
Holy shit that first knot you did was so confusing. If anybody else is confused just skip ahead and watch some of his other knots which are much better examples of what he's doing.
If you change the video to 0.5x speed, it's much easier to follow along!
Super simple, thank you very much
One thing that would make this process more efficient wood be to anchor or secure the item you are working with to keep it from moving around making it more enjoyable! Otherwise good explanation l
vice grip or pliers held closed with a rubber band works OK
Thanks, lots of videos on this, but it gets super annoying having to stop and run it back, this one made it much easier to follow.
Glad it helped 😊
How long was that piece of 550 cord?
yup best video ever friend thank you
This is by far the easiest snake knot tutorial I've seen on TH-cam yet. The other ones make it way more complicate than it needs to be. I'll be adding lanyards to my new ZT, Hogue, and Cold Steel knives along with a couple of beads I think they will look much nicer. Also going to be replacing the cheap square braid string that came on my CRKT SPEW with a small snake knot lanyard using some Nano cord that I just got in my recent paracord shipment.
Thanks for the great feedback 👍
Very easy and simple! As always pleasure to watch!
I can’t freaking do it for my life
Awesome, I did it! You really made it easy. Much easier than most of the other videos I have seen. Thank you sir.
you're welcome Marian
Have you tried the Tibetian method?
I like the sweatshirt. What brand is it?
A snakes breakfast on my first try 🤔🤔
After just learning this knot from this video and a little bit practice. It's super straight forward once you done a few knots. Here's some tips I've found. Melt the ends BEFORE you start the knot so rope doesn't stays intact as you go. for stability place the object in between some headphones .
Ay Up John, been subbed for a year, love your content, thanks for presenting this. Also I've got impaired hearing & your voice is easy for me to listen too, don't know owt about the technics of intonation or how/why but it's nice to watch your stuff without subtitles.
Thanks again merry Xmas & be well ✊
Very nice look, I’ll have to give it a try. I picked up the Victorinox Compact, it’s great been carrying it and haven’t missed the Spartan 👍
Great to hear 👍 yes give it a go , makes great zipper pulls.
Thank you! Was a nice and efficient tutorial. Got myself a lanyard on my water bottle now.
P.S. Accidentally made the lanyard loop around the bottle's cap ring (an aluminium Sigg bottle), so I couldn't take it off.
After spending at an event I used my subway ride home to re-do the lanyard such that it loops around itself and can be taken off.
Sir you are an excellent instructor!!! I thank you and my Victorinox evo s111 thanks you.
🙏
Nice always good to know what it is called in English. Here it is called, roughly translated, a round knot. Please keep making your interesting videos they are lovely.
Thank you 🙏 I will try my best
Excellent thank you Jon…
That made it simple. Thanks. Even though I was twitching like a madman because you didn’t put the knife in a vise or stop it some kind of way from falling over. That’s my only petty little complaint. Lol
Nicely done. Thanks
Tnank you kind Sir 👍🍻🥳
Excellent video I just used your video to put a lanyard on my new spyderco paramilitary 2 salt it looks and functions amazingly
I went into the lanyards for my knifes like crazy. Bought the paracord, started with the snake knot, thought to myself "this ain't so hard", went to the next level of knots and....... went back to the trusty old snake knot which is the style of lanyard knots all of my knifes now sport... I simply couldn't learn the more intricate and technically more demanding knots... I simply don't have the fingers nor the nerves for it. And I do love lanyards. Not only they are aesteticaly pleasing to my eye (despite the fact they are all made out of the simplest snake knots with an occasional lanyard bead), but they serve an incredible role of making the pulling of the knife out of the trousers faster and more convenient. All of my knifes have lanyards on them except some oddballs that for some reason don't have the lanyard hole (looking at you Benchmade Osborne..)
Cristal clear tutorial! Thank you for the mantra: "over the top and underneath, underneath and over the top". Got it! Liked and subscribed ;)
Hi Jonathan, I've been looking for a simple way to do this for a long time and your video is brilliant. Thank you for your work, I'm going to view more of it!
Thank you for that…simplest way I found to make a snake knot! Just added a 4 knot to my Esee 3!!!
As many others have already commented, this video has the clearest and simplest instructions of how to make a paracord snake knot of any of those that I have previously watched. I spent a few frustrating hours yesterday trying to follow instructions from other videos on the subject. In contrast, I knew exactly how to tie the snake knot after seeing and listening while the first knot was being tied in this video. SMH - it's really that simple?!?
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this video!
The Walmart of all knots.
Thank you sooo Much i just did my First Snake knot Lanyard for My Voctorinox Pioneer ♡
And the funny thing is my paracord looks Kind of a Snake its green yellow and black Pretty awesome 😄
Thanks Jon. Wife now has a simple but elegant snake knot letting for her mini and easily lost Swiss Army knife. Thank you.
Super helpful
If you stick your knife down to something with a suitably large magnet, it won't squirm and flip around on you.