Bob_Atl
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Actually, its a shoulder strap replacement within an older sling.
It sets good on the shoulder and has a softer feel than leather.
May eventually do an entire sling in paracord,, or not..
Couple ideas in starting this project was to not have to measure out the finished length of cord, and to not use a jig.
Turns out the jig part was needed after all for the second effort.
This strap is 22" length of 7 loop (14 strands) of simple weave, like a belt weave.
as practice for the sling, I made up some paracord camo "survival" bracelets for some family members & myself.
The first one turned out to be my favorite weave, single strand trilobite(see last pic), as well as fishtail and "finger loops".
"finger loops" is the name I gave to Slatts method and it looked like this:
There were two problems with this method.
It wanted to grow to the left, no doubt due to how I was weaving on one side vs other.
And the cord would twist up really bad when pulling the finger loops tight.
Had several re-starts until finally gave up on that method.
Good part on that was it came unwound very easy.
Next up was the belt method that required a jig.
In the fist pic, the jig is just below the sling.
This method went much better from the start.
The use of a flat piece of cardboard to keep the top stands separated from the bottom strands was a big help.
And thanks to my dear wife who saw me struggling and made that perfect suggestion !
After cardboard was in place it also acted as a weaving shuttle and helped tighten up the weave, as it progressed.
Fun little project, will do it again using this method and a jig.
Don't know how much cord went into it, wild guess is 30 feet.
Here's the trilobite bracelet, 9 feet of cord +/- (the girls got them in pink camo), it used a jig:
It sets good on the shoulder and has a softer feel than leather.
May eventually do an entire sling in paracord,, or not..
Couple ideas in starting this project was to not have to measure out the finished length of cord, and to not use a jig.
Turns out the jig part was needed after all for the second effort.
This strap is 22" length of 7 loop (14 strands) of simple weave, like a belt weave.
as practice for the sling, I made up some paracord camo "survival" bracelets for some family members & myself.
The first one turned out to be my favorite weave, single strand trilobite(see last pic), as well as fishtail and "finger loops".
"finger loops" is the name I gave to Slatts method and it looked like this:
There were two problems with this method.
It wanted to grow to the left, no doubt due to how I was weaving on one side vs other.
And the cord would twist up really bad when pulling the finger loops tight.
Had several re-starts until finally gave up on that method.
Good part on that was it came unwound very easy.
Next up was the belt method that required a jig.
In the fist pic, the jig is just below the sling.
This method went much better from the start.
The use of a flat piece of cardboard to keep the top stands separated from the bottom strands was a big help.
And thanks to my dear wife who saw me struggling and made that perfect suggestion !
After cardboard was in place it also acted as a weaving shuttle and helped tighten up the weave, as it progressed.
Fun little project, will do it again using this method and a jig.
Don't know how much cord went into it, wild guess is 30 feet.
Here's the trilobite bracelet, 9 feet of cord +/- (the girls got them in pink camo), it used a jig:
