hi I'm Sophie and welcome to my world well it's back-to-school time and you
know you could go back to school with a boring pen like this or you could go
back to school with a fun pen like this or this I'm going to teach you how to
make a paracord pen it's super easy and I'm going to show you how to make it
right now for this project you will need paracord pen with removable point
scissors needle nose pliers and tape now when I say a pen with a removable point
what I mean is this you're gonna see how I can take my needle nose pliers and I
can pull this whole pen mixture out that's a removable point some pens are
actually like bound together and you can't get them out I really am very fond
of this one here even though it's got this big thumb brace but what I like
about this is this top screws off like this and then your whole pen point comes
out and what I like about this is that see how loose that is one of the things
about the pens that you choose when you open them up if they can wiggle around
in here like that then you know you're gonna be able to put the paracord
around it and it's gonna go in and it's gonna be great if it's
really tight when you pull it out that's not going to be a good pen for this now
I'm using five hundred and fifty pound paracord and what you want to do is just
basically take the paracord and line it up with your pen and just hold it
with your finger there and snip and then pull out the insides the inner workings
you're gonna see that these just pull right on out leaving you the outer
casing so you just pull that out you don't need this anymore and then just
open up your tube with your fingers and push your pen point in there this is
your pen ink sorry not the pen point but the pen ink and just smush it on in
there now do you see how the paracord likes to smoosh up a little bit you want
to just pull that so that it's nice and spread out because
if you want to it likes to squish in on itself and in
this case we want to kind of bring this all the way to the end because we've got
this whole big thing that's gonna get covered there so we want to bring this
to the end as close to the end as we possibly can now I mean to take a tiny
tiny little piece of tape and when I say tiny
I mean tiny so what I do is I take my tape and then I cut this just a little
itty bitty bit I just want a tiny little bit of tape don't want too much but I'm
gonna use this just to keep that end nice and secure and tight up against the
pen body now I'm just going to take this and slip it back in and see how nice and
easy that slides right back in there like that
that you really want a pen remember how it wiggled around now it goes in there
nice and tight and then I'm just gonna take a little cap screw it back on and
there you go now I've got myself a paracord pen now let me show you some of
the ones that I really really liked using so this is this is like a Bic
knockoff and this was a great pen because it had lots of wiggle room in
there this so if you can find a pen like this this is great with this
nice big point up here and this just this whole part pulls out this whole
thing but what's great about this is this just slides see how big that is
that just slides right on in so if you can find pens like this this is going to
be best kind of pen that you can get for your paracord pen it this is a like a
BIC knockoff it's not a real one it's a BIC knockoff because it doesn't say BIC
these I found to be rather tight this is another bic knockoff these pens these
work very well this is a bic ultra round stick grip and this works really well as
does the regular bic round stick this works well too the only problem with
these is that they're frosted so you don't quite see you're beautiful
insides as much as you like too so as you can see though there they look
really cool when you have them all lined up together and there you have it your
very own paracord pen and you can make as many of these as you like in as many
different colors and styles as you like for more great ideas check us out at
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