I suppose those tassles hanging off the ends of chopper handlebars are so they will resemble the ones hanging off the handlebars of my daughters old tricycle (ooooh that's bad)...


Sometimes it is nice to have a flexible appendage other than the handle on my bigger knives, like when I am batoning through wood and my knuckles start complaining about the added vibration. There is a way to use a lanyard fob on the end of a good knife for additional throwing power and control (kinda like an atl atl technique), but I'm not a knife thrower much.

I suppose if you had a hole at the choil and one at the butt you could span a lanyard as a moderate knuckle protector for harder work, though I'd probably go with gloves instead.
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