Headphone Paracord Hack

My Bose Q35 headphone has travelled the world with me. It was a gift from my wife and it has sentimental value. Often it's easy to replace material things, but as I am all for circular economy (aka cheap), I tend to use my gears until it expire. If luck has it can be fixed, I will fix them. While the earpad is easily replaced with aftermarket units often available for less than RM20 (good quality), the headband is more expensive, and require some risk in removing a few screws and sometimes getting a band that doesn't fit as well as it should.

The best way, is to use paracords and wrap it. Not only it changes the look of the headphone, it adds some individualism into it. I have done it with a dessert pattern paracord and it has served me well for 4 years. Time to change it again, this time with a blue-red cord, as it gives a little more subtlety into who it look overall.

It's easy to do, and it will cost you less than RM10 (for a total paracord length of 100feet) and you only need maybe 10 feet of the cords, model of headband depending.

Pictorial of how to do it, below. Comments to lend some description and guidances.

Here we go.

Dessert cord has seen better times and changing it is a hygiene decision

Removed the old cord, and this time around, i use a cloth tape to wrap it around as the sponge/original headband has greatly disentrigrated and sticky due to the faux leather

The first step is to leave sufficient length of rope at this end that starts the wrap. This is important as you will be pulling this end at completion.

As important, ensure the leading cord overlap the tail at this part. You will need to wrap or start wrapping from here. Pull firmly as you go around the headphone band, ensuring a tight and close cord position.

On the other end, its a loop that you will thread the end of the wrap into. Try to keep this length of loop on the side of the headband as much as possible so you don't have an uneven surface once you are done wrapping.

As you finish off and reached the end of the other loop, thread the end through and continue to hold it tight here while you pull the other end (the start) firmly

Pull the starting end and it will close the loop on the other end!

Tightly wrapped on the starting end

Tightly secured on the loop end

Trim off the excess an use a lighter to terminate the endand press it against the paracord

Do the same for the other end

Looked better than the dessert paracord colorway yes?

Happy trying and leave a message below if you need additional instructions!