How to tie a paracord snake knot lanyard in 3 minutes

In this short video I show you how to tie a paracord snake knot lanyard in 3 minutes. The snake knot lanyard is very easy to learn and very quick to do and makes the perfect EDC knife lanyard. This snake knot technique doesn't just apply to a paracord knife lanyard but can also be used to create a paracord bracelet and the paracord snake knot makes an ideal zip pull for your carry gear.

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Contents of this video to help you navigate:

00:00 Intro
00:15 How to tie a snake knot
01:00 Repeat
03:00 Cut loose ends
03:45 Finished product in action
04:20 Outro

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[ToddBrooks-gmhy]

No idea why I watched this, but it raises the question: Can we get this guy to make EVERY YT instructional vid?

[virginiawilliams]

Thank God someone that actually repeats for the knot challenged ppl like me. Thank you👍🏽

[mrjoshua]

Thank you for making this 100 times simpler then the other videos out there. 👍

[FORDultra]

Beginners like myself, if you watch at 0.5x speed, it's much easier to listen and follow along! Great video.

[BTeehanKnives]

Holy shit, for 20 years I wanted to learn how to do stuff like this with Paracord for the knives I make, and have always struggled. Either the videos I watched were too fast, or the person trying to teach would talk and go on and on, about something irrelevant. You taught me how to do this particular knot, in literally 3 minutes, you sir, have gained a follower, thank you so much.

[GenitalSkinTag]

Easiest tutorial to follow. Thank you. I've done it on two of my knives now. I used to hate lanyards on my knives because I couldn't get them nice but thanks to you and your amazing video, I was able to do it with ease.

[waldemarkoyczov]

Thank you very much! I've no experience with paracord but following your steps i was able to create a fob for my small edc knife. Very well done tutorial, easy to follow!

[nicholashayes]

Thanks a lot, I can now remember how to start the knot, and you have made it easier than any of the other videos I have seen. Great stuff.

[swaggercat]

After watching over half a dozen videos on how to tie a shake knot, this simple explanation is by far the best out there. Thank you

[olliecarson]

Very helpful, I’m thirteen and very into bushcraft, so I added a ferro rod button on the end.

[richrock]

This is by far the easiest snake knot tutorial I've seen on Youtube yet. The other ones make it way more complicate than it needs to be. I'll be adding lanyards to my new ZT, Hogue, and Cold Steel knives along with a couple of beads I think they will look much nicer. Also going to be replacing the cheap square braid string that came on my CRKT SPEW with a small snake knot lanyard using some Nano cord that I just got in my recent paracord shipment.

[RavenRedwood]

While I'm not a fan of random dangly bits on my sharp tools, I have used this snake lanyard with a diamond knot stopper as a zipper pull like you mentioned on practically everything I own. The flexibility and uniform size is ideal for me compared to the stiff and asymmetrical wraps like cobra. And it's always oh so very satisfying to cut off all the loud clinking clacking metal zippers and make your gear finally just be QUIET.
Give it a try if you haven't already! 👌

[John]

Hiya Jon, everyone of these Youtube snake knot tutorials seems to be slightly different; backwards, forwards, upside down and behind, you name it. I come here and I get it the first time I tried it; being somewhat dyslexic I learn by rote. Once I get it, it becomes carved in stone, but I have to get it first and you are the best teacher. Thanks.

[markbrisec]

I went into the lanyards for my knifes like crazy. Bought the paracord, started with the snake knot, thought to myself "this ain't so hard", went to the next level of knots went back to the trusty old snake knot which is the style of lanyard knots all of my knifes now sport... I simply couldn't learn the more intricate and technically more demanding knots... I simply don't have the fingers nor the nerves for it. And I do love lanyards. Not only they are aesteticaly pleasing to my eye (despite the fact they are all made out of the simplest snake knots with an occasional lanyard bead), but they serve an incredible role of making the pulling of the knife out of the trousers faster and more convenient. All of my knifes have lanyards on them except some oddballs that for some reason don't have the lanyard hole (looking at you Benchmade Osborne..)

[hollycramer]

As many others have already commented, this video has the clearest and simplest instructions of how to make a paracord snake knot of any of those that I have previously watched. I spent a few frustrating hours yesterday trying to follow instructions from other videos on the subject. In contrast, I knew exactly how to tie the snake knot after seeing and listening while the first knot was being tied in this video. SMH - it's really that simple?!?

Thank you so much for taking the time to do this video!

[willtrax]

Thank you for doing this Tutorial. I’m an Old DAV with memory issues and try to keep busy and the Audio from this was so helpful in me remembering which way to loop, the British Voice is just so memorable i didn’t have any issues and I will remember this without having to reference the Video like I have to on so many others. Semper Fidelis

[balsalmalberto]

After just learning this knot from this video and a little bit practice. It's super straight forward once you done a few knots. Here's some tips I've found. Melt the ends BEFORE you start the knot so rope doesn't stays intact as you go. for stability place the object in between some headphones .

[kyongkim]

Bless you for making this video the way you made it. I'm SO BAD at braiding (ask my daughter 😳). But your slow and deliberate method while repeating your steps actually got thru my Neanderthal skull. Now I've got a bunch of nicely braided knives and I can stop buying the dang pre-made lanyards! Thank you and cheers!

[PaddyMc]

Thanks Jon. Wife now has a simple but elegant snake knot letting for her mini and easily lost Swiss Army knife. Thank you.

[troygoodrich]

Thank you for the video. I was able to follow you pretty well. I just attached a lanyard to my knife because of your video. Excellent job sir.😊