Rūtsu Designs EDC Lanyard | How To Tie The Two Cord Twist
Hi, everyone. It's Kevin from root Su root shoe designs on etsy
[I] just wanted to thank you all for your support
And our launch for the Edc of La we've had a really great response, and I appreciate it so much
I have had a few questions
come in about how to install the lanyard this is the two twists cordage lanyard that we supply and
I wanted to cover that so join me inside so anybody in the bushcraft
Community will be pretty familiar already with the two twists method. I've used the same to twist method here
Just using a different cord and the nice [thing] about this is will see is that it allows you to attach things easily
So you can see the lanyard is only this long, but [the] reality is this is about four feet of court
But it's just in a much [more] compact package
So in a minute, I'll show you how to attach the lanyard on to your valet
But first I wanted to give you this skill if you don't already have it because I [think] this is a very useful skill to
Have and it's quite easy to learn this lanyard is actually two feet of parachute cord and then the way to tie
This is you find the center start twisting like this
And you'll see that the cord wants to twist up on itself, and that's exactly what you want, and so you let that first
loop start to happen and
You try to keep that tight you twist, you're going to twist each strand
counterclockwise if you're looking at it from above so it's counterclockwise and
Then you see. There's are going to pass over each other in a clockwise Manner counterclockwise and Clockwise
counterclockwise and Clockwise
So again each strand is going to be counterclockwise, and then you pass over clockwise, so counterclockwise
can pass over clockwise you can see my left hand is sort of
Grabbing and holding the strand as it comes back over
And when you get about this much
Twisted it's easier
If you actually attach this or clip this on to something and then both hands can work more freely like this
And I find the easiest thing is just to
Use a binder clip and because I'm working on a table. I've just tied this in
so again
You get about that much in just clip it in
Just like that
Now I can do the same process
Twisting
Passing over and holding you
Notice I reach around grab
Twist into this hand
Just like that, and you'll be tempted when you start to try to really do a lot of twists here to keep everything tight
But you really don't need to
It's really
Maybe one twist just like that
So if I was doing this kind of just a normal speed it wouldn't take much time at all now as you're doing this especially
the first few times it might not be exactly consistent and that's perfectly fine because what you can do is go [back] and
just kind of
Twist opposite and
balance out the wrap
Just like that to kind of dressing the twist, so to speak
Now I like to just finish this with a simple overhand knot it just makes it easier
When you're actually going to take it apart and use your cordage, so when you get about this much left
so maybe an inch and a half
And hopefully your two ends are pretty close. They don't have to be exactly close if they're way off like this
you might use that as an opportunity to
Practice again and untie it
So the easiest thing is just to
Tide over hand knot
Just like that get it started don't worry about having it right at the end to start with you just want to
Kind of get this and see that's loose. It's not untwisting now
You can kind of dress the knot and just slide this down off of the twist
keep everything nice and neat
Pull it a bit
There you go
So that's the completed lanyard now when you receive your EdC valet. It's going to come with the lanyard already tied for you
But now that you have the skill
You can tie your own for other uses ok so. This is the lanyard that we just tied and
You get to decide which side you want to put it put it on in this case. Let's put it on the right side here
So it's as easy as just threading
The knot nodded and through pass it through and this is the loop that we were
Paying attention to how tight this was the first time around so you want this to be a bit tight because we're going to pass
this not through that loop and
The natural tendency for it to twist back up is what's going to kind of keep this secure?
So depending on how tight this is you might be able to just do it with your fingers
but oftentimes it's easier grabbing a pen
Pencil just kind of open that up a bit
You can go against the twist and that gives you a little bit of an opening just pinch it there
[ok] you just pass the not through and
Then just kind of reengage the twist
And that knot is going to prevent it from slipping through just like that
And then you can have the knot on the front or the back
Whatever you want to do
and now your lanyards attached the slimline version doesn't have the lanyard and
That's actually the one that I prefer on the one that I personally carry
So the nice thing about having to lanyard on the ballet
it gives you a little bit of cordage that you have with you every day and
I just find other ways to carry quarter to every day