This will be a step-by-step tutorial teaching you to make a single color paracord bracelet with buckles using the “Solomon Bar” technique.
If you prefer a video tutorial, I will include the YouTube tutorial I did recently for this same bracelet in Orange.
I will be using 550 paracord, this is a thicker cord than the 95 paracord that we normally use and produces a thicker bracelet. Men usually prefer this width, although it comes in a variety of colors for men and women. We will make an 8 inch bracelet.
Materials
You will need:
Buckle
About 9 feet of paracord (1.5 feet = about 1 inch of bracelet)
Paracord Jig (not required but helps hold the bracelet as you work).
Lighter (to seal the ends)
Scissors
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I will mention that we always pre-shrink our cord. This prevents shrinking if you decide to clean or wash your bracelet down the road, and washes away any excess dye thats on there from the manufacturing process.
To shrink: Boil a pot of water. Drop your cord in and let it sit for up to 1 minute. Remove. Let dry.
Getting Started
The first thing you’ll need to do is get your paracord ready. Inside the paracord, you will notice there is some white strings. Remove them by taking a pair of tweezers or your hand, and pulling until its all out.
Take your lighter and melt the end of the paracord (carefully) to prevent fraying while you work.
Now you want to find the center point of the length of paracord. The easiest way to do this is to grab the ends of the cord and hold them in one hand, and with the other hand pull it until the paracord is fully stretched out.
Grab the center, flatten it out with your fingers. Insert it from top to bottom on of one of the buckle pieces, it doesnt matter which.
Then, pull the paracord over and around the top, and pull tight to secure that end.
Secure that buckle to your jig.
Take the other buckle and and snap it into the jig also.
Then take the paracord and pull it thru the second buckle from top to bottom. Pull all of the paracord thru, you should have something that looks like this:
This will be the side you start weaving your bracelet from, so flip your jig if you need to. You should now have one length of paracord on the left, one on the right:
To begin the Solomon Bar you will first make a knot, as you are tightening the knot, pull on the cord to take out any slack, like this:
I like to start working from the left side. Take the left cord, fold it over the top, into the shape of a “4”, use one hand to secure it:
Take the right cord, go under the cords, and up through the opening of the “4”. Pull to secure. Make sure you dont leave it too loose or tight, use this same tightness on all your following knots.
Now take the right cord, make a “P”, and use one hand to hold.
Take your left cord, bring it down over the right cord.
And then take that under all the cords and up thru the opening of the “P” and tighten.
You will repeat this process, switching from left to right until you reach the bottom buckle:
Remove buckles from the jig. Check to make sure everything is how you want it to be. This is your final opportunity to make and changes or adjustments before finishing off your piece!
If you are happy with everything, you are now ready to cut the extra cord, and seal the bracelet.
Take your scissors, and cut close to the bracelet leaving just a small bit of cord, I usually leave about this much:
Take your lighter and heat the end, not too close or the cord wil burn and turn black, which is fine on this bracelet, but on any other color it will look burnt and ugly.
I use my lighter to press the melted end and make it flat onto the bracelet.
Repeat on your other cord.
Voila! You are done! You now have a finished bracelet.
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Best regards always!
~ Steph & Jailyn, Jurassic Styles
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