Braided handle 

I really like this. Nice job Gary. You're an artist.

Hi Gary I've seen a couple of these braided handles but yours is by far the neatest one I've seen great job,,,,,, Thanks for sharing.........

Thanks Gary. I just made one and will most likely use it as a fire poker handle. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Very nice looking handle. It has my mind racing. Fireplace tool handles, rustic dinner ware, hotdog fork, door knocker, its almost endless. Thanks for provoking me to thought. John.

A very simple, yet elegant, pattern. Good vid!

Good stuff Gary. Thinking a fire place set in this’d be smashing! Thanks

Poker handle, brush handle for a dustpan and brush set, if you made both ends finish in a mounting plate of some kind, a handle for a garden gate, many other ideas spring to mind :)

You are quite entertaining. Both funny and easy to listen to, with the added bonus of expertise.

As always danm good job ... thanks for showing

Great video Gary , love your tutorials they help a lot !!

That looks really nice. It's given me all sorts of great ideas. Thanks mate.

Hi, I think that was very well done, and heating the ring and parsing the pipe through will help make it round, but with it being so thing it might not be necessary to heat it. I like the idea and this would make a nice handle for a carry-all tool box which you might use every day.

very nice outcome

lovely work

That's actually pretty nice looking. Nice work. :)

Nice work Gary.

I have a two pronged long fork which was made by a great uncle for my mother. It is out of stainless steel. She used it for years for cooking. The one you made resembles its handle.

damn great idea! Simple, but good looking

Thanks for a wonderful demonstration! You know, what would be kewl...if you welded the 4 pieces of round-bar together, from the finish of the braid, all the way out to the tips of the bars and then forged it into a knife blade. It would be the perfect knife! It's almost the right shape, now...with the bar ends staggered like they are. Thanks again.

This could make a great feature to be used as the hanging part of a hanging basket for some smaller plants.

Brilliant!

very nice!!

Looks good. I would love to see some other patterns.

Nice work.

great job gary would love to be as talented as you cheers from aus

good handle flex for many things

you can do this with one of the cheap oxy/propane or oxy/mapp torches you find at big box stores. Not as fast as oxy/acetylene, but it works. I only run oxy/propane, as I'm too cheap/poor to buy acetylene, but it still works well enough to cut 1"+ thick plate. But my little cheap torch does well on small stuff like this and has a nice small flame that directs heat well.

Love it.

This is the coolest video ever! You should try making Damascus blade like that! Two different steel wires soldered together into a bar, and after make a blade...The pattern would be amazing! You have yourself a new subscriber!

Nice!

This technique can make for some cool pattern welded designs

Bravo! beautiful

looks great, would make a nice poker handle,

You could bend the tines into a garden fork or forge them together into a trowel.

Yo Gary! LOVE the video mate. HAve you considered possibly drawing out the end of this and possibly making a cool knife?

lovely...thankyou

yep , that worked well , simple but effective.

Que hermoso trabajo!!!

Another thing you can do is rather than going straight across with each bend, you cross the strands, which will yield a spiral pattern.

you could possibly try a twist on the braided handle

"It's a nice feel to it". Our teacher would have said, "It's a touch toy". (When you'd taken the burrs off and given it a polish Mr Nixon would often say that).

that would probably make one hell of a damascus pattern if you did it with 2 different steels.

Very cool, might make a nice handle for a knife.

I think if you heat the entire handle and twist it a few times to tighten the links i think it would have a wicked gnarly look, the forge out a knife and connect it

Would make a nice handle on my Dinner Fork...Nice Job!!

its can be a good knife i think love the handle

Just a thought, maybe you could spread out the 4 pieces you were considering making a single piece and make them into something like a spider. Bend the ends out an inch and then down straight and then hammer them into spikes... like some kind of fantasy pig-sticker.

use the technique with hardenable steel and once braided, forge weld!

Gary, I like your videos which are very interesting and informative. I do a bit of hobby blacksmithing and know of (and have used) a method for "braiding" 1/4 rod with 6 lengths (instead of 4) that looks very realistic and is more smooth & comfortable in your hand. Once made it looks very complicated but is quite easy to make. To make a braided handle about 6 inches long cut 3 pieces of 1/4 rod 18 inches long. Heat each piece in the middle and bend it tightly back along itself. Weld the end of each piece together (to prevent spreading). Do the following steps to each of the 3 pieces. Heat the entire length in the forge, clamp one end in a vice, and using a turning wrench, twist clockwise until the entire length is tightly twisted. This may take multiple heats but the aim is to have consistency along the entire length. Twist all 3 pieces so they look alike with the same number of twists. Bundle the 3 pieces together and weld the ends so you have one unit. Heat the unit red hot and twist counter-clockwise until the loops line up. You'll know when its right when you see it. One end can then be welded to a short piece of rod for a hook (for hanging) and the other end welded to whatever needs a handle (fireplace poker, coal rake, pot handle, etc). Work the welds until there is a smooth transition from the braid on both ends. Maybe you could try it and make a video. If you like the results post it for us. Thanks, HWP.

My father twisted stainless wire and braided a different size wire, bent the braided wire in to a horse shoe shape wrap the twisted wire around the braided on the inside of the horse shoe and on the out side of it , to make a belt buckle, he made solid tips for each end, he flattened the braided wire just enough to accommodate the thickness of the twisted wire, have to say it made a very nice looking buckle once it was polished.

They would be awesome as Door handles in the right environment.

Hardwork creates extream things....

nice

Just my two cents. Use 1/4 x 1/8 flat bar. and look up round lanyard pattern. Yea it would be awesome!

Hey Gary, space those tines out and send it over here to the States for me as a beard comb. I'll make ya something in return.

Your camera has automatic white balancing and, in this instance, it is set for ~5,600ºK (daylight) that will alter the perceived color of the heat (~2,000ºK). Quite sure you know this, but that's why.

Nice Lonsdale hoidie. OI!

the 4 peaces sticking up , just forge weld them together and make them into a knife , and boom , a knife with an interesting handle , i mean its not gonna be any good because the metal is not ideal and the braid is a bit slim for it to be a comfortable grip , but as a proof of concept

I think that handle would be good to put a sledgehammer head or something similar to it, the heat the four prongs and bend them out in different directions over the hammer head, making it difficult to come off. Just my opinion, though.

and if you mix different bars with different carbon levels, you could then make an edged damascus blade right? in theory

I see a nice BBQ fork there..... great video..

Gary I watched your Ram's head and still I am having trouble making the punch for the eye's. Any words of wisdom would be appreciated. Bill

sorry dude i dont know why the link failed but i simply punched in "tool steel" and the wikipedia "tool steel "was at the top of the list ...any way at the bottom of that wiki page is the "external links"" and the first listing has a pdf icon with "suggested tool steel selections for various purposes ".....thats the one to click...worth a look....cheers big ears.

Could forge weld the tails together and then draw the result out into a really nice fire poker? Would make nice handles for a gothic style fireside companion

Have you ever thought about making something to hold your torch as you light it instead of just letting lay on the table or project.

You could straighten the ring on the end with a little heat

I love that handle I think im going to use it for a sword handle or an axe handle Can you do more 'steel paracord ' video please Realy great video Like your other video Keep it up :)

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Would it be possible to forge weld the excess material and turn that into a knife blade? Thanks

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Love this design! Could you use this for a cheese knife handle or would it be a bit too rough on the hands?

make some bad ass handlebars for a motorcycle chopper build

Hi Gary a great video as usual. Just a quick question (unrelated to the video) I remember on your polishing vid that you said you were trying one of those ceramic flap discs I I'm curious as to your thoughts on them. as I use the normal ones a lot is the extra cost worth it

Since the top isn't round, flatten it out and make it a bottle opener/knife

Neat

Gives me an idea - wedding ring :). Come on what woman wouldn't be flattered by this work of genious?

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It might be cool to wrap the 4 left over lengths around horizontally into a disc swirl...? :o) O,,,

I wonder if this would be cool with aware stock

If each bar were two different types of blade steel, such as 5160 and 15n20, add some flux, beat the crap out of the braid, and you got one beautiful knife

at would make a really interesting Damascus

Gary can you do this with a normal blow lamp

Why not make a fork out of it?

What's a fair price to charge for 2' of this braid?

Isso é uma peça decorativa?

just a idea but don't cut the the straight peaces and put a blade on it think it would look good on it , but that is just my opinion .

That is probably the easiest Paracort design you will be able to do with steel because it's the simplest good luck though

is what you do for a living, or a hobby?

Many thanks for a great youtube channel Here a small "thing" if you need an idea for a new video,,,;-) A sheep shears or Viking Saks, would be very pleased if you would make one. thanks for showing and keep up the good work ;-)

Why don't you use the metric system?

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forge weld it into a knife of course

looks more like 3/8 inch

Nice work, but I think you should buy some gloves and a locking pliers, a high risk !!

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cool. after this, twist it.

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