"...Knotted Cord Rosary..." That's a great suggestion RBStealth.
I have some of those cord rosaries. (The only problem I've encountered on a few of them at times is that the spacing between the knots is not always uniform, so it is possible at times to mistake a "Hail Mary" space for an "Our Father" space between the mysteries -- if you're not counting as well.) I've never tried making one.
(By the way, have you ever come across this book?)
"Real Men Pray the Rosary: A Practical Guide to a Powerful Prayer" by David N Calvillo)
No I havent come across that book. I dont really need Yet Another Book on the Rosary. Although I know of the website. Seems like a local org. with local effects, although they’ve got some cool gear.
I bought the baseball cap and have had people doubletake me for a black power thing, but its all good. I blacked out with marker their website name on the back of the cap.
Their other gear is kind of flawed, like t-shirts with that logo...cool, but with the other side blasting a website name. Not something I’d pay for....—akin to an ‘Eat AT Joes’Human Billboard, —especially since I walk and pray with the rosary, wearing a t-shirt like that with large website address is not my style of witnessing.
I find their logo somewhat appropo. It shows a left hand holding the rosary...this is not common. Yet St Montforts book ‘True Devotion to Mary’ speaking of the ‘great men’ of latter times:
“They will have the two-edged sword of the word of God in their mouths and the blood-stained standard of the Cross on their shoulders. They will carry the crucifix in their right hand and the rosary in their left, and the holy names of Jesus and Mary on their heart. The simplicity and self-sacrifice of Jesus will be reflected in their whole behaviour.”
—Saint Louis Marie de Montfort, speaking of the great Saints of the end times.
So the cap aligns with the above quote in that it shows a left hand with rosary. Additionally I am left handed and pray the rosary this way. Although I am aware that de Montfort is using a figure of speech, not literal, but spiritual.