I found this over on candlepower forums and ordered three of them tonight. They look fantastic and all the people I have talked to are more than happy with their order, check it out...

http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?t=119849

If anyone either doesn't have an account on candlepower or doesn't want to get one I can put you in touch with the guy who makes these. Just send me a PM and I'll hook you up.

Link didn't work.

That is odd, it works fine when I click on it. Go to www.candlepowerforums . com, then click on "enter forum" then scroll down (middle of page) until you see the section "Buy/Sell/Trade" beneath that click on the "sell" forum under "non lights". The topic is "FS: Paracord survival bracelets (PICS ADDED)"

If you cannot find it or the think still does not work for you let me know. I am not sure why you could not get there as every time I click the link myself it goes straight to the thread it's self.

-Olaf

I'm still not able to acess it. If you could send the info it would be helpful, since I don't know why it's not working. Thanks

I don't know why you cannot use the link but I already left details on how to get to the thread. I even used the link after I had logged myself out of the site (member) and had no problems. Anyway here is a quote of the persons post. Anyone interested in buying one I can let him know and he will send you an email so you can work the details...



"I just acquired some different colors of 550 cord and some 3/4" fastex buckles. I made a paracord bracelet for myself and thought I would offer to make some for folks on here. If you are not familiar with these, many soldiers wear these in order to carry a length of paracord with them easily. And, I suppose, also for the "coolness" factor. All parts are mil-spec...the 550 cord has actual strands inside instead of fibers so that you can use both the inner strands and the casing for different uses. The buckles and the cord are mil-spec and made in the United States -- not imported.

Price will be $20.00 + $3.00 shipping via USPS with DC for any number of bracelets up to a pound...that's a lot of bracelets! Postal Money order preferred. PayPal ok if you cover the fees. I will only ship within the US.

1 bracelet for $20
2 for $36
3 for $45

These are HEAVY DUTY. I saw some on eBay that were $15.00...mine have 6 strands of 550 cord inside the braid instead of 2 (like the ebay ones), so it is much more substantial. It takes a little more time to do them this way as well. If you want one of the cheapie ones with only two strands, I can do that for $15.00, but it will not be as nice as the six strand one and will slip around on the fastex buckle at the ends. Some of the ones I have seen around have monkey's fists on the ends to secure them...they are also only made with two inner strands, as stated above and feel very cheesy compared to mine. The ones with the little balls on the end may be "cute" and all, but the ones the real soldiers wear are not made like that. Neither do they wear ones secured by ball chains and they do not have the cute little metal beads woven in. And...mine are CUSTOM FIT!!! Made to order! No need to be "sized down".

The colors I have are ACU Camouflage, Desert Tan (light tan), Coyote Tan (dark tan), Desert Camo, Black, Foliage Green, OD (olive drab) green, Maroon, Royal Blue, Navy Blue, White, Safety Orange, Turquoise, and Teal. I have 3/4" buckles in foliage green, tan, and black.

If you would like one, please let me know your wrist size for the wrist you intend to wear it on. For proper fit, it should be measured with a fiberglass tailor's tape (cloth ones stretch over time)...or -- cut a piece of paper, wrap it around your wrist until it overlaps over the thickest part...the wristbone, mark where it overlaps and then measure the length with a ruler. I need the exact measurement to get it to fit correctly. Please do not add any extra to that measurement or it will not fit right. If you do not do it this way, the fastex buckle can catch your skin and leave a bruise. Trust me...you do not want to do this. It smarts a bit.

As these are custom fit, I will need payment first and then I will make your bracelet. I will make them as soon as possible and will try to ship them within a day of payment...usually, they'll go out the same day! I am a US soldier and am selling these in order to generate some funds to upgrade my personal equipment. I also enjoy making them and hope that folks will be impressed with the quality and enjoy wearing them."

Link is working fine for me.

Smitty

The link does not seem to work for me, either. As well, simply going to http://www.candlepowerforums.com/ returns a "server not found" error. So, thank you for posting the description manually. It sounds pretty interesting. I wish I could see the pictures. <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

These are some images from the thread... there are other pics on the sight of a lot of different two tone and solid patterned ones.. check your security settings.. maybe its that.



[img]http://www.m998.com/images/sarsm.jpg[/img]
Should be able to click them to view his larger photos now.

Thanks for posting those!

Did for me.

For those who had problems with the Link to CandlePowerForums, please try again tomorrow.

I regularly visit CPF, and when I clicked on the link (I just wanted to Bookmark it, I've seen it before and kept meaning to buy some Bracelets) it gave me an error, that it could not Resolve the Hostname. Since I know I had visited it earlier, I tried some DNS trickery, and finally got to CPF after having to go all the way down to the Root .COM server.

My guess would be that CPF either moved their physical server location, or made some change to their DNS entry, and it hasn't yet propagated throughout all the DNS servers out there. That would explain why some had problems, and others did not.

So, long story short, try again tomorrow and the Link should be working by then. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Futuristic

I placed my order for three of them earlier tonight and was told they should arrive around Tuesday. I'll take some photos of them when they get here and post them up. Anyone interested let me know and I'll pass it along.

-Olaf

This guy is also on EDC Forums...from what the folks there say, his work is the real deal...I've heard nothing but favorable reviews. Haven't gotten around to ordering mine yet...

How long are they once undone?

And how much for a belt made this way?

Length is dependant on your wrist size, from what I have read it is somewhere around 15'. He doesn't do belts.

If I remember right from the other forum, you send him the measurements of your wrist and he makes one long enough to comfortably fit around it.
As for a belt, I'm sure he would give you a price on one that length if you asked him but the belt of it would be pretty skinny to use as a functional belt useing that macramé braid knot.. better would be the eight strand alternating square knot useing 4 sections of cord (fold the cord in half to make the 8 sections) on a standard ring and pin buckle.. then you end up with 2 long strands of cord when you take it apart..

ok, so I was wrong, maybe he doesn't... have you asked or have you just not seen it?

thanks for the replies

Other people have asked him if he does belts. His reply was that it would be cost prohibitive given the amount of cord it would take and the length of time it would require to do them. Not to mention people go up and down on waist size so most people would not always be able to wear them. This was his answer when I asked because someone asked me to ask for them. A paracord belt is a cool idea and I suppose with some extra $ incentive he would do it but I don't know for sure.

Still, he is pretty flexible and very good with customer relations, anyone who is interested should just ask, he might say yes but I don' want to guess what the pricing would be like.

I was really surprised that there would be 15 feet of cord in a bracelet. A belt that would fit around my large 38 inch waist would be really long! I'm researching on how to make my own as suggested.

Make your own belt, or make your own bracelet, or both?

I'm interested in this too, please keep me posted if you find anything.

Either/both.
More interested in a belt. Longer lenghts of para cord. I saw a website a while ago where a guy had instruction on how to do this and didn't save it to favorites (duh). Now I can't find it.

Found the site with instructions. Saving it to favorites. going to be a winter project of mine for sure.
http://www.slatts.fsworld.co.uk/slatts-knot.htm

Try this site:

The Slatts Rescue Belt Knot

Pete

Thanks Pete, that's the one.

This is the knot he uses for the bracelets

You already found it but I was going to suggest this for the belt but here is the pics...

Tied this earlier tonight...



It was 10ft of paracord and it took about 8ft to tie 6 inches worth. It's only 2 strand tho. 6 strand would have probably used up all 10ft.