Quick Deploy Paracord Bracelet, POV

Description

A quick-deploy paracord bracelet tutorial, done point-of-view so it's easy to replicate. This video is designed for someone who has never made one before and wants a slow, easy-to-follow walkthrough. Pause the video during the actual weaving, as you won't be able to keep up with my fast-forwarded video unless you're a ninja =) This design has the advantage of returning to a length of paracord in about 10 seconds. It can also be made without any clasp or buckle, This is the bracelet I used in my Paracord Bracelet Survival Challenge (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlZjNOHtC9I), and the original design I learned from Brian Grubbs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5sghPwH_c0).

Please add your own tips or ideas in the comments section. I love to hear from you!

I use about 11 feet of paracord in a double-woven bracelet, but I start with 12 (I started with 13 in this video as a demo). Begin with more than you think you need, then when you're finished, cut the extra and subtract it from your starting length. You'll then have your personal length, though remember to leave a little extra for ease of working. Also, recognize that if you weave more tightly, you'll use more paracord.

For a triple-weave bracelet, you might start with 16 or 17 feet, though you should have extra unless you're thick-boned. All of these measurements are for my rather thin wrists =)

The trickiest part about this bracelet is making the final loop the right size so that it doesn't fall off. If you've made it too loose, you can easily loosen your final knot, snug it up a little, and re-burn your end. If you'd rather make it with a buckle, Brian has an additional video showing how -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTuqCmMOM10

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Video Transcription

a few of you have asked about the quick-release paracord bracelet that I featured in my paracord bracelet survival challenge video and today I'd like to show you how to make it I really like these because although they are not the fanciest things in the world they really do deploy very very quickly so you can get your new 11 feet or 16 feet of paracord out of the double or the triple weave bracelet really really quickly in about ten seconds instead of having to undo not after not after or not the other thing I like about these is that they are they just use a knot so there's nothing else required except for some paracord you can have a piece of paracord be sitting around the campfire and weave one of these up for the next day you don't need any special buckle or anything else so a great easy design I owe this design to brian Grubbs and right up there is his video he has a great tutorial on how to make these I encourage you to watch it what I'm going to do is do this point of view so to me that's a little bit easier way to learn how to do it and I hope that it's also easy for you to go from the very beginning of making and Ashley stop or not all the way through the weaving to a completed bracelet so let's get started I'm beginning with exactly 13 feet of paracord that's not how much I'll need for this but when you first start out depending on how thick your wrist is and how tightly you make your weave that's going to determine how much paracord goes into one of your bracelets

so when we make we're going to make a double one today and when we make that double at the end we'll be able to cut off measure and I'll know if I've made it it's because I want for my wrist and I've made it at the weave that I feel that I'm comfortable I can replicate that's how much paracord I'll need in the future to make a double bracelet we're going to begin with an Ashley stop or not on the end and here's how we do that well just going to pick this up my thumb is going to move down my other finger up now that's going to flip that loop over so that I have two bunny ears my bunny ear on the left is going to go come out of the hole on the right and then the short end is going to go again coming out of the hole so from underneath and up and through this is an adjustable knot so I can adjust it towards the end and leave a little bit of a tail once you have your Ashley stopped or not you can take your wrist measurement go around make a loop make sure that you're making it so it's going to feel comfortable to then pinch that paracord together

and there I have the length of it this is going to be a double one so you come down here and leave just a little bit of space as I make my second you can see it pull it I fold it and then up here the top another bite and at this point you should have your ashes stop or not one two three I'm going to hold these together and arrange it so that I not is on the right and I'm going to take this and I'm going to loop it behind and across the front and clear this over the top now I'm actually going to begin my weave so I'm going to take this here in this long length is going to go under that ear and then it's going to come up through the middle and it's going to go back around this here and up through the middle back around this here up through the middle back around this year and we actually want to make this as tight as we can have been doing it loose to show it I'm going to tighten it up here and as I go I can take a finger pencil stick hold these two and pull on those knots to pull it up tight now I'm going to continue my weave making sure that as I wrap around each bunny here I'm going to wrap really tight really tight really tight really tight and then periodically finger and so stick and choke up also here this is something you can run into I want to leave a little bit of space I can pull on that and pull it up and that's going to affect the length of one of my ears pull it back down a little bit and I can get so that I have a little bit of a tail but I'm always looking at the bottom to make sure these two are nice and even so let's continue with the weave

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anytime you see spaces starting to form it's a good reminder to again reach to the bottom and chalk it up wanting to look really nice and tight as I get to the top I have these two loops and I want to leave enough room for my paracord to pass through there twice

so I've come to here it looks like I can squeeze through I'm going to go through this loop

and through this loop now this next loop that I'm forming I'm going to leave a loop this is where am I Ashley stop or not is going to go through so I want to make this loop of such a size that it's going to capture that knot and hold it and make it so that it's a good old but not too tight not so loose that it's going to slip up so to do that I'm going to I came out this way I'm going to follow back around and go right back through the way that I originally went through so first through this loop then through this loop again following that same pathway now I'm just shrinking my loop to size put this through shrink it down make sure I've got a nice loop that will allow me to slip it up finally I've come through my second time remember I've left this loop I'm going to wrap around and I like to come through the top and close this off then I'm going to cut and burn make a nice ball there that's going to hold this from going through that loop of paracord there we go burn that end and it's not going to go through there unless I wiggle it through now you're ready to wear it as you put it on this is where that little tail comes in nicely so you can stick that tail through and then pull you're not your Ashley's not too so to turn this back into paracord it's very very quick you remove it from your wrist pop that through slip it out the first time through those two loops and the second time through those two loops at that point you simply grab this end grab this on you pull and just like that you have your paracord with the one little Ashley stop or not still on there here's the portion I've cut off I'm just going to measure that and that will tell me subtract that from your original from my original 13 and then I'll have how much paracord I would use to make a bracelet always recognizing that if you leave an extra 6 inches it's going to make things much easier for you and that if your weave becomes tighter over time or looser because your hand is sore one day that the amount of paracord will change at least you know a few inches you