Hey man, I just started watching because of your baseball laced bracelet. I've made these 550 bracelets for years. Browsing your vids, I've seen some new designs that I'm going to try. Every time I came back from a deployment (12 yr Air Force Vet), while we were walking through the airport, I would give out bracelets to all the kiddos that would come up to us. I know at one time, we, my team, gave away 34 bracelets. Love the videos and your voice is great for these videos. I made an American Flag bracelet that I haven't seen anyone else make. If you have an email, I would love to show, and maybe talk and have it perfected. Again, very nice videos!! This is one I'm definitely going to make. I just have to get some silver 550. Have a great day/night bud!
Thanks for your service and for sharing your story! It was so cool of you and your team to do that for those little kids. As for the American Flag bracelet, you can send a photo to orders@paracordplanet.com and I will definitely see it!
Commenting as Paracordia UK. You tend to hugely over estimate the amount of cord needed which results in a lot of waste. I know this can be used for other projects in some cases, but it would be good if you could actually state the length of each colour remaining at the end so we could factor this in at the beginning of the project. Thanks.
Your videos are good to an extent as I have a bit of criticism that I'd like to let you know of. You speed up a lot and heavily edit your videos which makes it kinda hard to follow in some parts such as, in this pattern you alternate the whites once through the middle and once one cord through either side. This was not explained properly. I had to slow the video to 0.25 and then still keep rewinding and pausing because the editing cuts a lot of the parts out. I hope you take this as constructive criticism.
This is really a great pattern. How hard would it be to make a belt out of it? How would you figure out how much cord you would need to make one .... ?
Best way to estimate for the belt would be to make 1 inch of this pattern, unravel it to see how much cord was used, and then multiply it by how many inches the belt will be.
This is a nice design. What should have been mentioned was how long this bracelet was going to be... and how the thickness would affect the length. This turned out to be 7 3/4 inches (for my 6 inch wrist) with just enough room to turn it while on my wrist! The disappointing part was at the end when I had 5 feet of silver cord and 2 feet of black cord left over. What a waste!
That’s great! How do you work out the diameter of your wrist? I assume you measure your wrist and then add some length to account for the thickness of the bracelet? What additional amount do you allow for the thickness?
You are on the right track! We usually make the bracelet 1 inch longer than the wrist circumference. For extra thick bracelets (basically anything thicker than this one) we might add 1.5-2 inches of length.
