Events
“Coming soon” Instructables will be running a paracord contest. Anything using primarily paracord is eligible. At stake is a custom laser engraved Leatherman (type unspecified). Once the contest gets going, it will be open for 2.5 weeks. The instructable must use paracord, it cannot be done with some other kind of rope with the note “you could also use paracord for this”.
http://www.instructables.com/community/Coming-Soon-Paracord-Contest/

Things to make
Peter Dekker shares an illustrated how to for wrapping your Chinese sword grips. http://www.mandarinmansion.com/art_files/gripwrap.pdf (336 kb) (via)

Over a year ago I scanned the pictures I needed to put together an illustrated step by step set of instructions for the good luck knot. Finally, words have been combined with the pictures and posted to the main site. Up until now there has been no main page for the good luck family of knots. Now I’ve sketched in the basic shape of it. There’s a lot more work to be done, but I think it’s useful and viewable now, so I’m putting it out there.

Let me know what you think: typos and errors, things that are unclear, things that you like, etc.

What with all the good luck knot stuff I’ve been doing, it’s time to fix up the main page and do a how-to or 2 or… But that sort of thing takes time. All the first round of pictures are scanned and need to be processed, text added, etc. See the files as they are worked on. When the pages are complete, they will replace the directory listings. This is a peek under the hood.

Tomorrow is Lunar New Years’ Eve, so I thought I would bump up my usual Sunday link dump to Saturday on the off chance it helps anyone get out to an event on time…