If you are like me you hate wearing your neck knife or even other gear around your kneck. For instance, earlier this year I bought a ESEE Candiru and a Grindworx sheath, this allows neck carry but since I hate neck carry I put it in my pocket and it works fine, but then I’m cluttering my pocket. It would be nice to carry my knife out of my pocket, off my neck, but still have it immediately accessible. I’m kinda broke right now so I found a way to do it for nothing or near nothing. I will be honest, I saw this idea some time ago on the interwebz but forgot about it until now, so I will show you mine.

You will need about six feet of paracord or similar diameter cord (3/16″ but 1/8″ will probably work), you can buy paracord online or even at Walmart in the craft section or Hardware store for a few dollars. If you want to minimize it showing through your clothes you can remove the guts, if you want it really flat put it between two pieces of t-shirt material and iron it, it will be permanently flat. Anyway, this is the ony thing you need besides a knife or other gear to hang from it, see, free/cheap.

Now what you want to do is fold the cord in half so you have one big loop and two ends are together. Next tie an overhand knot about the middle, don’t snug it up yet because we are going to adjust it. Most neck knives have holes in the bottom of the sheath so the lanyard can pass through it abd the chain or cord ties behind your neck, we are going to put the two ends of our cord through one or both of the holes in that sheath and then tie them in a simple overhand knot.

Lastly, try it on by putting your “strong side” arm through the loop, grab the second loop going from the overhand knot to the knife and put your weak side arm through that loop. The first thing you want to check is to make sure the overhand loop at the middle of the figure eight is in the middle of your back. If you are doing this by yourself you might have to take it off and on a few times to get it where you want, be patient, once you have it where you want it snug it up.

The last step is getting the knife (gear) where you want it, if you make a perfect figure eight the knife will be in front of your shoulder, we want it underneath. Let some slack through the one that comes over your shoulder to the knife and take up some slack on the one that comes under your arm to the knife, now snug up that knot really tight.

Now you have a simple, comfortable, convenient, low profile, and best of all free way to carry your neck knife. If you get confused while making it just go back to the last step you did correctly and reread the next step, with a little patience anyone can do this.

Enjoy,
Chris

[P.S. Instead of the overhand knot in the middle of the figure eight you can tie a simple Cross Knot, this will lay much flatter than an overhand knot, especially if you take the guts out of your paracord. It’s really easy, practice with another piece of cord first. Here is a 1:20 minute video on how to tie it]