key chain

A while ago, I made some infantry bracelets (also known as infantry bracelets or 550 cord bracelets) and posted instructions on making them in this old entry.

Well, file this one under "more things to do with parachute cord". Or maybe under "things to do when you're really bored." If you're using a military file system, it should go under, "random sh** to do on CQ."

This is a little key chain I made up yesterday evening after getting back from MCB Quantico where Trueman and I did our commissary shopping and spent part of the afternoon running amok on the training lanes with Abby. The dogger loved it. She was running around like a mad dog, hurtling over barbed wire obstacles (yikes!) and plunging herself into the deepest mud she could find.

Thankfully, the Marines keep pretty filthy training areas, and I was able to pick up a whole handful of grenade pull rings, which are great for all sorts of things ... such as key chains like this one.

I had the little skulls left over from making pace counters for a friend of mine and some of his buddies in the 82nd Airborne because they wanted them for deployment to Iraq, but didn't want to go buy them from Happy Camper.

The only knots you need to know to make this lanyard are the Scaffold Knot and the Portugese Sinnet, which are both very easy to learn and make. You'll also need cord in your choice of colors, a ring to put your keys on (doesn't have to be from a grenade) and beads of your choosing. If your beads are small like mine, you may need to pull the "insides" out of the parachute cord.

Make sure to also check out the parachute cord and grenade pull rings slip collar I made for my dogger, over at the dog blog.