If you’ve ever watched Naked and Afraid on the Discovery Channel, you already know the value of a simple piece of cord. You can use it to build a shelter, make a trap or construct an elaborate water filtration system.
It’s no wonder, then, that many survival knives come with paracord-wrapped handles — think Gerber’s fixed-blade collaboration with Bear Grylls or the CRKT Tailbone.
But most examples share something else, too: a fixed blade.
There are plenty of reasons why you don’t see many paracord-laden folders. Folding knives require mechanisms to pivot and lock, which get in the way of a skeletonized handle design.
The blade also needs an open channel to fold into, which can’t be blocked by loops of cord.
