I used to make all sorts of stuff out of paracord when I was in the Army. Considering my job was basically to walk somewhere in the woods and then sit still and hide until the commander wanted me hiding somewhere else, it gave me a lot of time to do stuff like that.
I still have a knife in my big tool box that I used to take to the field that has the handle wrapped, the sheath wrapped, and like an eight foot braided dummy cord on it. About all I ever used it for was opening MRE's, but my 13 year old son sure thinks it's cool. He's always looking for a reason to swipe it.
