What are the dimension of the triangle?Originally Posted by IhangnBankhead
What are the dimension of the triangle?
Knotty
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I have found (occasionally) ripstop, and I've found several types of camo, but the camo has always been some sort of polyester or poly/cotton blend.
Is this fabric Nylon Ripstop Camo? That would be awesome!
The dimensions are 26" long by 16" & 16" to make the triangle. Lay in your hammock and mark where your heels are and that will be the bottom of your footbox.
Last edited by Bankheadboy; 03-15-2010 at 13:22.
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This fabric is somekind of polyester or nylon? But not Ripstop their is no small squares in the fabric. It seems to work so far!
In the beginning, God created wilderness..and it was good. Lamar Marshall- Bankhead Warrior
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Ok, did it. Thanks.
I started with a right isosceles triangle, 18" legs. Roll hemmed three sides which reduced the legs to about 13". Was shooting for 16" but miscalculated. Not a problem though, the result works fine.
Measuring at the hammock edge the sum of the two legs is about 4" less than the hypotenuse, so that's the reduction in the length of the hammock side. It's enough to make me nervous about entering the hammock from that side. There's a lot of tension on the seams if you sit on the hammock edge.
Looking forward to no longer having my feet hang over the edge.
Knotty
"Don't speak unless it improves the silence." -proverb
DIY Gathered End Hammock
DIY Stretch-Side Hammock
Stretch-Side "Knotty Mod"
DIY Bugnet
Really late to the party here, but when I'm laying in my BB, the body fabric (under your feet, not the top sewn in over your feet fabric) in the footbox seems more loose to me. Also, the fabric right in the middle (left to right) of the hammock down towards your feet feels tighter than the rest. I was imagining that there must be extra fabric in that quadrant of the hammock.
I imagine the beginning fabric, prewhipped, in order to create extra room for your feet, would look something like this:
But I have no idea. This was just my guess before reading this thread. The bed fabric on a WBBB is just rectangularly shaped?
For me, for whatever reasons, the blackbird shape is the most comfortable lay...better than any non-footbox style. I also bugged Brandon about this idea a while back. He heartlessly told me to just cut the netting off of a BB.I was deeply disturbed by that visual. I would pay $125-150 for a netless footboxed version. 1.7 or 1.1 DL.
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The lay of a Traveler wouldn't change any with the footbox. That has been explained many times...
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Yeah, I honestly can't tell any difference in the lay between the two. The lack of footbox on the Traveler just makes it tougher to keep your feet in the hammock laying on a diagonal. There is plenty of material there to contain your feet, it just doesn't like to stay up. I've wondered if sewing on some pull outs to the sides of the hammock might help this. Pitching the hammock with a little slack in the ridgeline helps a bit too but the fabric likes to droop down and not stay up.
The timing on this thread is really excellent. I just got back from the maiden voyage of my newest DIY gathered end hammock. On the long drive home I was pondering why it wasn't as comfortable as my beloved BB.
So I was also thinking of a netless "Bird". I see now that that would NOT have any affect on comfort.
Okay......so what DO I do to get a more comfortable lay in my home-built? Is it the width of the material (IIRC, the BB and the Traveler are wider than most)? Is it how the the ends are gathered/tied? If so, what is the secret sauce?
And if this is a trade secret, please accept my apologies and don't tell me. I highly respect the time and effort that Brandon went through to develop his products and he deserves to be rewarded for it.
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