A question for you dforce gurus :)

I have a wizard staff I'm making (see image) and I want to add some leather ties with charms at the ends right there below the leather on the grip. 

Firstly: if I model caps on the ends of the laces that are meant to stay rigid themselves and set dynamic strength to 0, will they still follow the rest of the leather ties and fall with the drape (I'm seriously doubting this but thought I'd ask anyway)? Also, those caps are where I'd like to put the rigid follow nodes.

Is any of this possible? I hope I explained it correctly what I'm talking about.

Laurie