A lanyard can have several functions . They can help you keep from losing your flashlight if it slips from your grasp . Anytime I use a flashlight over water while boating I make sure to have a lanyard around my wrist .
If you store your light in a pocket or bag , a lanyard can be left outside of the holster , pocket , or whatever to facilitate easy access .
A lanyard can be used to hang a light for overhead or spot lighting . You may wish to simply store your flashlight by hanging it up .
On a small flashlight , a lanyard can provide additional length or bulk to make handling the flashlight easier or more secure .
Some people even like the looks of a flashlight with a custom lanyard attached . It can make your light unique .
This is key-fob related, but it seems to answer your question. Do this with lights, guns and other tools, pets, children (your own, of course!!), etc.:
The “usual” way of making a bit of cordage look like a rattlesnake rattle is to tie the Heaving Line Knot, which actually has three (3) lines of “rattles”.
I couldn’t stand it.
Here’s what I came up with:
(click image for details in a .PDF file)
Works as a key fob, zipper pull (that’s why I tied it in ‘ze purple’!!) or a section of a sennit…
The fundamental structure looks like this (mouseover to flip; right-click->View Image to see full size ALSO: since the mouseover changes, click to switch, so you can view either one…) :
Making one in pink for SWMBO, I notice they can look like lips!
(These may take some time to load… Working on it…)
Mr. No-Shoulders Emergeth:
(clicking this one just brings up the big picture)
Hope someone else finds this useful (as a rattlesnake fan, I would like to see them better represented) …
Since we don’t have “light bulbs” anymore, how about an homage to one in a lanny?
If anyone’s interested, it’s a 3-turn, 2-strand Matthew Walker knot under a standard doubled Sailor’s Knife Lanyard knot. In mini-blind cord, which is awesome kernmantle Dacron…
I Tossed the ends after reeving them back down through the SKL knot.
Here’s a GITD lanny, made of a single piece of cordage with the no-glow core pulled out. It’s attached to some F*nix EDC or another, with a Double-Wrapped Ring Hitch, which is tied in a Brummel Eye Splice. The “kern” and “mantel” separate again to make a traditional Sailor’s Knife Lanyard knot (2-Strand Diamond Knot, doubled), then we go back to making double-braid again to make the wrist strap. Click to see the big picture, and see if you can spot the bury point at the RH end…
Mouseover this for more:
(To get right-click access, left-click to switch pix!)
I hope any of this helps someone somehow. I love it, but it really does me the most good to see my tricks at play in the world.
Speaking of which, I’ll take what I can get. I gave my little sister a fairly-difficult key fob as a sercy, and she (not a fob user) gave it to her cat. < wishes for “face-palm” smiley > You can’t pick your family… < sigh > At least the cat likes it.
I know this isn’t appropriate, and I’m not religious so I’ll edit it out if y’all want; but if you put Half-Hitches in cord the right way, you can make a Jesus Fish on your UF-501b:
If you click in to the larger view, you’ll notice the tiny Solomon Bar at the switch… It’s tied in the strength member from some leftover fiber-optic cable, which is probably nothing special, but it makes a wee Bar! One day when it falls off…
All the knots (Half-Hitches, actually) you can see on that image are identical in their formation, just arranged differently.
