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  • Hi this is Megan with Beadaholique.com and today I'm going to show you

  • How to Make a Basic Cobra Paracord Bracelet

  • with a plastic buckle

  • and

  • it's going to be just a

  • very simple basic

  • version. There's a lot of different ways to do this. I'm just going to show you

  • the most basic simple one

  • So a few things

  • you'll need

  • a basic disposable lighter. Don't use a micro torch for this. It'll burn

  • right through. It'll burn up your

  • nylon cord

  • you do want to use your basic disposable cheap lighter

  • you can also

  • it's really handy. You can use the side of the lighter where it's smooth to smooth out

  • the ends when you're

  • finishing off

  • the bracelet

  • which will

  • get the lighter kinda funky so use the cheap

  • little disposables

  • and then you'll need

  • your parachute cord

  • or paracord

  • this is a two colored

  • project like this one

  • so I'm using

  • two lengths

  • one of each color

  • and then you're gonna need these little plastic

  • buckles

  • and this is the .6 inch

  • so .6 inch is the size and this is the

  • perfect size for

  • doing a

  • basically the two strand core with the two strands on the outsides. So you're

  • super basic one is going to fit perfectly

  • on the .6

  • You need something pretty strong to cut through the paracord. I'm using flush cutters

  • because I found that my

  • little scissors where a little wimpy. If you have stronger bigger scissors that

  • work fine

  • when you are cutting

  • your paracord you're going to want

  • to cut about a foot of paracord for each inch

  • of knotting that you want

  • and

  • as far as how much knotting you'll want

  • your clasp, this buckle will add about two inches when it's closed

  • from here to here

  • and then you also because it's thicker you wanna add about an inch

  • to your desired measurements

  • for what your wrist measurement is

  • so my wrist is about six inches. I wanted my bracelet to be seven inches which

  • means I only want five inches

  • of knotting from clasp to clasp

  • because plus the two for the clasps

  • gives me seven inches

  • nice and snug

  • I went ahead and cut

  • six-foot lengths

  • of my paracord

  • just to get myself a little more of my paracord

  • so

  • one thing that you'll need to know how to do

  • is how to join

  • two the cords together

  • first thing

  • what you're going to do is take

  • your buckle

  • separate it

  • these will go through

  • the top of edge

  • the male

  • half of your buckle

  • take

  • one of your

  • short cords, center cords. Pull it a little longer

  • you're going to give yourself a little bit of a tail

  • bring it through

  • the female end of the buckle. Don't pull it all the way out

  • and tie a lark head's knot by

  • pulling the ends through the loop

  • pull the other buckle on the other

  • string and everything

  • all the way through

  • Pull that tight to attach it

  • you take

  • you cords

  • we want to attach

  • this end of this cord to this tail on this one so that we have one piece so

  • you get the two color

  • cord piece going up the middle

  • now there a couple of different ways to attach

  • your cords to fuse them together

  • you can just trim both ends heat them with a lighter and try to smoosh them together

  • I like to kind of make a

  • male and female fit together kind of a joint

  • trim down

  • this tail here. We want this joint to be close to the buckle

  • and it is gonna take a little bit of it

  • to do the joint and you do you want to join to be high up enough inside

  • the knotting

  • that it is encased in the knotting to make it strong so

  • give yourself about an inch and a half or so

  • inch and a quarter

  • trim that down

  • so you're gonna pull down

  • the outside of your cord and have the core threads

  • exposed

  • and cut off about

  • three quarters of an inch

  • and then you pull

  • your cord backup

  • and now you want the end

  • that's going in there to be

  • a clean end

  • and it helps if you have it already

  • fused a little too itself. So you just

  • hold it

  • in the flame

  • and you'll see it get dark and you can see it melt

  • you can

  • push it against the side of the lighter. Be careful when you have it

  • melted because that will burn you if you touch it. It's very hot so make sure you

  • let it cool off before you touch it

  • and now you have this piece here and it's hard so will be easier to settle it

  • in

  • so you can see that the top here is hollow because we cut out the core threads

  • take this

  • piece

  • and twist it and shove it into the top here

  • if these ends get frayed that's fine

  • when you fuse it, it would just give it more

  • to fuse onto

  • take that joint

  • be careful not to get stray cords in front of the flame when you're doing this

  • it will get

  • melty

  • get ruined

  • just

  • turn the joint

  • fuse it together

  • and don't

  • melt it to the point that you're

  • going to melt right through it

  • get a good solid fuse on it so that those are really

  • solidly connected

  • so next you're going to

  • decide the length

  • this way

  • so as I said you want

  • your bracelet to be an inch longer than your wrist measurement and your clasp adds

  • two inches

  • I'm going to use this one as a guide

  • I already did that one. I know it fits me

  • from my seven-inch bracelet

  • and now I want

  • the middle from the end to the end

  • from where the plastics starts where the plastic stops to be a

  • about about five inches

  • now

  • that basic knot

  • in the

  • super basic

  • paracord bracelet is a macrame square knot

  • it's also in paracord is called a cobra knot

  • it's the same thing as a macrame square knot. So I

  • have showed you how to do that in video before

  • I'm going to go over again here

  • I'm going to

  • take your cord

  • it's a little tricky to work with six inch pieces. Have to get used to it

  • so you're going to take your left

  • strand

  • bring it over the center strands

  • take your right strand

  • bring it over

  • the tail of the left hand

  • and then bring it behind and up through the loop

  • pull both sides

  • Then you're going to

  • do

  • the opposite so you're going to take the left and go under

  • the center

  • take the right stand under the left

  • and then bring it over into the loop

  • again it's going to be

  • left over

  • right over

  • under through

  • left under

  • right under

  • over and through

  • and I always like to think that it's just over

  • over under through

  • and then

  • under

  • under over through

  • if you make sure that you alternate them you will get a nice

  • flat piece if you don t alternate them they will twist. So if you see it's going to

  • twist

  • and you don't have the same color

  • down the sides you're forgetting to alternate

  • so again it's over

  • over

  • under through

  • under

  • under over through

  • you're going to repeat that

  • until you get to the end here

  • when you get all the way down

  • to your other clasp

  • you're done

  • you can see that it depends a lot on how tight you're doing your knotting and everything

  • you will have

  • extra cord

  • you can do smaller projects like key chains and stuff with your scraps but

  • as you work you will get

  • more of a feel for how long

  • You need

  • to cut your cords

  • per how many inches so

  • as you can see

  • I did six-feet

  • if I did five inches

  • I'd still have a couple feet left over

  • so it's kind of a

  • guessing game because a lot of it has to do with the tension

  • if you use

  • a looser

  • then you will

  • use less cord. If you do you're knotting tighter you will use more cord

  • so pull your last knot really nice and tight

  • then you're going to cut off

  • the extra

  • why you want that knot tight

  • leave yourself

  • just a little bit

  • of cord

  • maybe

  • an 1/8 of an inch there

  • or just slightly longer

  • the way finished this is the same way that you fuse it. You're going to melt it.

  • and this is when you use the side of your lighter

  • you're gonna

  • light the lighter

  • and you're gonna hold it

  • to the end

  • of your cord

  • and you're gonna let it melt

  • until the whole extra tip

  • looks like it's

  • melty

  • and then really quickly you're going to squish it

  • at the edge of the lighter

  • you can see what this does, it's going to expand

  • the end

  • it's going fuse to the edges around here

  • the idea being

  • it's only secure if it doesn't pop back through that knot right there

  • so by making it bigger and by fusing it to the edges around here it's going to

  • keep it secure and keep it from popping through it

  • and like I said you will get

  • goop

  • on your lighter. Wait that you let it cool off right away and you can scratch some of it off

  • but that's why you don't use

  • grandpa's zipper from WWII

  • Once more

  • hold it on there

  • let it get all melty

  • smooth it out

  • if you don't get it all nice and smooth the first time you can reheat it

  • and go back and smooth it out

  • just be careful if you've had the lighter

  • lit for a little bit

  • then the part that you pushed to light it, it does get very hot

  • you might need to let it cool off. Don't let it cool off

  • So once you have it

  • all nice and sealed and it's not going anywhere

  • then that

  • is you're finished bracelet

  • It's really simple and once you get it down it is really quick too.

Hi this is Megan with Beadaholique.com and today I'm going to show you

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