2 drop lanyards?

[tc3144]

Hey, I have been making lanyards for about a year or two now.  I am new to this site and I was hoping to get some response.  I have made several lanyards for my family, and some for fellow hunters.  I seem to get a request for a two call lanyard all the time.  I have made them a couple of ways, either both drops out the bottom of the lanyard(the calls seem to get stuck together) or I drop one off each side.  I like to drop one off each side, but I think it looks dumb without the third drop from the middle.  Does anybody have any ideas or some advice for a two drop lanyard?  Thanks

[schwert]

Well I have only made one.....so keep that in mind.

I don't like two calls clacking together at the bottom of the lanyard.  I prefer mine to come off the sides.  I made a four call lanyard and so far would only hang one....my least used call at the bottom.

My next lanyard is going to be 2 call and a whistle only....both calls on the side, nothing at the bottom, whistle up high on the left.

I am not sure yet how I will bring the thing together at the bottom...

Good luck but I am with you on 4 call lanyards....two clanking around together even if one drop set is longer is not how I am going to make mine.

[tc3144]

I agree.  I usually make 3 or 5 or some odd number of drops, so the thing looks even, and you have 1 drop at the bottom to bring the thing together.  I can't decide how to bring the bottom together without a drop.  I just think it won't look right.  I can't stand my calls getting tangled.  Especially when birds are overhead.

[Bill]

My Daughter makes 2 drop lanyards for my deer calls with the drops on the sides different lenghts stopping above the keeper.

She leaves the bottom strings about 3 inches long and put them through a keeper and cut them off flush with the bottom of the keeper,seems to work out pretty good

Bill

[Amerflyer48]

 Actually had this problem,..here is how I solved it..

 I built a lanyard that looked like an upside down U with a bar across it then ran the drops from the U legs  at different heights

 the knot work bar spaced it out about 4" (you could also make a wooden cross bar) sort of like a shackle but the bar kept the ends apart and kept traveling down to the drops. It was inspired by an old Bosun's  pipe lanyard.

 Sorry I didn't get any pictures of that one .. it was many sea miles ago,  I could draw it from memory if you wish.

John

I usually suggest a 3 or 4 drop lanyard because as a wise man once said...

 "2 is 1 and 1 is none"  think it was a GUNSITE ranch thing 

[swmohunter]

What I have done for a two call lanyard is make your lanyard a circle. Space your calls the way you want,  and maybe even add a whistle drop somewhere. This is the only pic I have of what I am refering to. It's an older pic and has more drops, but you get the picture.

Nathan

[dogcatcher]

Most of the hunters that I hunt with only use 2 calls and do not use lanyards.  We use BDU jackets with 4 large pockets we can carry everything we need.  For the few that have to have a lanyard the drops at the bottom are staggered to keep the calls from knocking against each other.