Miscellaneous

  • American and Italian Made vs. Knockoff Copies

    Why Rugged Rosaries uses the Italian Devotional Medals and Crucifixes  First, a little about the Catholic products industry. There are basically 2 sources for the majority of devotional medals and crucifixes needed by the rosary business. One is Italy and the other is China. Yes,...

  • Comparison of Rugged Rosaries vs. Mass-Produced Copies

    Because we want you to have the very best rosary, we want to show you how to spot the overseas mass-produced "copies". These knockoffs are being sold in a few Catholic stores, but mainly you will find them on Facebook, Ebay, or Amazon. Warning: There is a fraudulent seller on Facebook which we ha...

  • Comparing Other Combat Rosaries

    At Rugged Rosaries, we are passionate about the WWI Battle Beads® combat rosaries that we hand make daily at our company (and the Original Paracord Rosaries as well). When we introduced these rosaries back in 2012, they were so different from the normal rosaries sold in your local Catholic store ...

  • Comparing Rugged Rosaries to Copycat Rosaries on Amazon

    Comparing Rugged Rosaries Paracord Rosaries to Chinese Copycat versions (Hanlin CC in this example). Most of the copycat paracord rosaries seen on Amazon are made in China.  The prices are lower, but as the saying goes, “you get what you pay for”.  Customers who mistakenly thought they had bought...

  • How do the WWI Battle Beads combat rosaries compare to other combat rosaries?

    COMPARING DIFFERENT BRANDS OF COMBAT ROSARIES Recently we have been getting more customers who want to know, what is the difference between the Rugged Rosaries WWI Battle Beads combat rosary and the combat rosary sold by Roman Catholic Gear? or McVann? or "XYZ" company?  Some of these companies ...

  • How to Make Rosaries

    Unfortunately, we cannot teach you how to make rosaries but there are many great sources available.  To learn about the parts of the rosary: Below is a photo of the parts on a typical paracord rosary. Numbers 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 may also have just a knot or a bead for the "Our Fath...

  • Privacy

    This is our Privacy Statement.  This Privacy Statement has been updated May 2018 to comply with the new European Union GDPR for our European customers which fall under the jurisdiction of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You may view our Terms of Service Statement HERE. PRIVAC...

  • Rosary Supplies

    Thank you for your thoughtful ministry of making rosaries. Unfortunately, it is against company policy to sell or give away rosary materials. However, we can give you a little guidance below: Paracord For paracord, we recommend ParacordGalaxy.com [https://paracordgalaxy.com/]. They offer good pr...

  • Terms of Service

    TERMS OF SERVICE OVERVIEW The Rugged Rosaries website is operated by Cordbands LLC. Throughout the site, the terms “we”, “us” and “our” refer to Rugged Rosaries® by Cordbands LLC. Cordbands LLC offers this website, including all information, tools and services available from this site to you, ...

  • Where Do You Get Your Beads?

    Where do you get your beads? This is the most common question we get asked.  Company policy does not allow us to publish the source of the beads, however, we can tell you that many of the beads are custom designed and manufactured exclusively for Rugged Rosaries® in our military-inspired colors....