We made heavy linen canvas hammocks from a 1716 British Navy design - hemp clews and thread grommets. With added stretchers (hard to describe - they were used on US navy hammocks as late as WW2,...
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We made heavy linen canvas hammocks from a 1716 British Navy design - hemp clews and thread grommets. With added stretchers (hard to describe - they were used on US navy hammocks as late as WW2,...
Chiming in that they are too fragile - I used one as a fishing rod (with reel attached) 'skin". I was very careful putting it on, had help, but it tore pretty much immediately. I think 20 minutes...
another zombie reply to a post, but noticed nobody answered you when I was grabbing this link for a friend here at work. That keeps you from having to cut an angle in the top of the middle piece so...
Late to the party, but I make my own splicing needles from aluminum (sometimes brass) tubing. I can't make myself pay >$100 for the spectra splicing sets, even though I use them for fishing as well...
I have the heavier duty premium FoMoCo rack on my Escape, but it says it's rated for 150# or less, and that is assuming you are putting the stress along the axes they designed it for.
Might hold...
Put it in my kayak. If I am being a landlubber, I hang it, either with a pack cover or with a plastic bag, depending on which pack, pretty much like it were a bear bag (though from the trees I'm...
I don't think the OP can make his own, unless he has an old "mini keg style" heineken can lying around. I had read posts saying they weren't making them any more, and asked the local distributor at...
If you live in a rural area like I do, the singer will be easier to get parts (belts and such) for.
Have to admit I haven't tried the "its" yet. I'm a rope and string nut, nearly as bad as my sailor knotwork son, so probably will.
However, I like triptease because I kayak more than backpack,...
From your last reply, I don't hear you saying you are going to sew eight layers of sunbrella, or even two layers of heavy fabrics.
At $499, and really meant for much heavier fabric, I don't think...
Alcohol (even the strongest denatured alcohol) doesn't do a great job of removing Sharpie once completely dry. Nail polish remover does better - it can eat some plastics though.
MEK (methyl ethyl...
You're only a little over an hour from me, it sounds like...
Albany, GA (Leesburg) still has fabric - no good bug net or nylon three weeks ago, but are supposedly expecting a shipment. I'll be...
Why not the opposite, like the surgical tubing versions in various places? (I thought Just Jeff's site, but can't find it there right now, and it's late...)
For a stronger version of surgical...
Hi, I'm a returning lurker :)
Have been away from the Hammock Forum, Listserv, and whiteblaze for awhile; am back scratchin' my gear upgrade and clean-up itch.