Paracord Tools You DIDN'T Know You NEEDED! 

Thanks very much for the compliments, Tim. But my suggestions / experience are not worth much without your skill and expertise in authoring and creating world class tutorials!

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I've already done a video about that here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3pwNmME-IAM.html

That's a great point and something I forgot to mention too, thanks for pointing that out!

I understand where you are coming from. I spent a number of months trying more than 30 devices including lighters, torches, irons, electric arc lighters, and liquid fuels. I will spare you all the gory details but I finally found the perfect solution for me and probably most paracord weavers. It is a small butane fueled torch like many you have seen. It's flame can be set to a pencil thinness burning at 2300 Deg F but that is not what you will want to use most of the time. The torch has a feature not found very often on butane torches, and that feature is an air flow valve. The air flow valve is a valve which the flame in conjunction with the butane flow valve. This 2nd valve allows you to produce a precision flame from full legnth to as short as 1/4" in length. It allows me to select a finishing end which is surrounded by several other loose ends and to melt that end without melting any of the other loose ends or knots around it. The cut end can seared or melted into a ball of molten paracord which you can let dry or flatten down with a knotters tool or metal edge. The tool I use is the Iroda PT-220V whose info you can get at this link: pro-iroda.com/products/butane-torches/pt-220/ The bad news is that it is expensive (approx $85). It has great security features but can still be ignited with 1 hand and configured so it will lock itself on, therefore freeing both your hands to hold or manipulate the paracord project. PLEASE NOTE - I have no affiliation with Iroda. There may be equivalent micro torches on the market which have both a gas flow control and an air flow control. The only other ones I have found were several hundred dollars. But there may be other brands with products less than $50. But the key is having a device with an air flow control. Torches and lighters with fuel flow only produce flames which are too intense for doing precision surgery on paracord loose ends and they do a lot of collateral damage.

I was gna ask the some thing, but u already did that. I want to attempt to make this as well.

That was a bracelet tutorial that I didn't end up finishing because I wasn't happy with the end product. I don't remember the name of the pattern unfortunately.

Yeah he is Canadian