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Posted: 1/15/2006 8:07:12 PM EDT
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Damn! Somebody was definitely bored. Incredible what a couple of spools of 550 cord and a six pack of beer can accomplish. |
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Posted: 1/15/2006 8:20:32 PM EDT
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LOL only about 100 feet of 550 cord. (and several Heinekins)..
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Posted: 1/15/2006 8:24:25 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/15/2006 8:33:41 PM EDT
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Thanks, I just sold it along with the LaRue BattleLight though  in favor of a Surefire M910 with a LaRue mount.
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Posted: 2/15/2006 4:42:06 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/11/2006 5:46:03 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/11/2006 6:08:29 PM EDT
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Now that is sweet lookin'.
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Posted: 3/11/2006 6:30:38 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/11/2006 7:39:18 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/11/2006 9:45:30 PM EDT
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Have you ever used paracord to make any of those things? Gene |
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Posted: 3/11/2006 9:58:50 PM EDT
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I made a paracord sling
 
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Posted: 3/11/2006 10:54:30 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/11/2006 11:44:10 PM EDT
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Not that I'm aware of.  Never been called "lootie"..Gene |
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Posted: 3/12/2006 8:55:47 AM EDT
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GENESMITH.... are you still on a sweeper?
If you'all look at his sig, you'll get an idea of the motivation and history of what this is all about. Sailors have always spent port-time and off-watch time doing this sort of thing. No one depends upon rope in their day-to-day as much as sailors. Many of the knots and wraps were to tie up loose ends or to increase the grip on something when wet. It's as old as time. It grew into a casual competition to see who could do the most ornate and still have utility. I grew up in a family that sailed recreationally (My dad's in his 70's and STILL sails out of sight of land without GPS, he's an old Viking stud, lol). He and my mom would spend rainy days doing just this sort of thing. Monkey fisting line ends, wrapping tillers or winch handles, splicing docklines and anchor rodes. They were a legend in a marina full of stock brokers and dentists, lol. While I do agree that adding a bunch of para to your AR can be a mistake if not well thought out, Your work is VERY cool, Gene. Regards |
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Posted: 3/12/2006 9:00:33 AM EDT
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Beautiful rifles! I demand details for the one in the middle!! |
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Posted: 3/12/2006 5:15:33 PM EDT
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Just my cheapo SPR clone
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Posted: 3/12/2006 11:40:27 PM EDT
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Well thank you. To answer your question, no. I am no longer on a minesweeper. I was stationed on the USS CARDINAL MHC-60 from 2000-2002 in Bahrain (which is where she is home ported/forward deployed). I'm still in the Navy, but back on shore duty on the beatiful island of GUAM Nice to hear about your parents being into knotting, did you get into it at all? I have always been interested in tying knots, just never knew what it was that I was doing. In June of 2000 I found a copy of “ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTS” (considered by most to be the “knotting bible”). It wasn’t long after, that I began to decorate my ship, my house, my tools, and anything else that I thought needed to be covered/decorated with rope/line. This was my favorite hobby till I found AR’s. I purchased my first AR about a year ago, and found this website shortly after that. Since then, I built my first AR (pistol) and now I’m building a rifle. I saw this thread about “What kind of neat things …. with para-cord”, so I figured I could rig up something really neat. Now that I’m almost done decorating that FF tube, I don’t have any place to put it because I’ve decided to use an aluminum ff tube (the evil black pistol) and have gone with a railed hand guard for my new rifle build. So now I have to build another one just for the decorated ff tube lol. It just never ends. Thanks again for the kind words, Gene |
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Posted: 3/12/2006 11:44:43 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/19/2006 5:56:59 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/19/2006 6:14:58 AM EDT
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Do you have a link showing how to make that knot? |
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Posted: 3/19/2006 6:20:52 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/19/2006 7:05:06 AM EDT
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Paracord rocks!
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Posted: 3/19/2006 9:03:26 AM EDT
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Never thought I'd see reference to the Ashley Book of Knots on an AR forum!
I have the book, but I don't have the patience for the majority of what it shows. Kinda makes me wish I could have lived in that golden age, though. Reading the ABOK is kinda sad. Seeing how much we've lost in terms of practical self-sufficiency, the abilty to use rope and line for so many simple things..... |
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Posted: 3/19/2006 9:32:52 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/19/2006 9:45:15 AM EDT
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Me too!! +1 Gene |
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Posted: 3/19/2006 10:04:36 AM EDT
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Holy Macrame, Batman!!!
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Posted: 3/19/2006 10:34:23 AM EDT
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 This? Why, I can make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl... |
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Posted: 3/19/2006 6:19:35 PM EDT
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I did it myself out sheer boredum
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Posted: 3/19/2006 7:33:05 PM EDT
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But what type of knot did you use? |
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