At long last, I've finally got photos to show of all the work I've been doing lately.
I'm going to try and upload them into the images gallery. Thanks for all the very helpful insight and info from everyone on this board.
At long last, I've finally got photos to show of all the work I've been doing lately.
I'm going to try and upload them into the images gallery. Thanks for all the very helpful insight and info from everyone on this board.
Hammock and a tarp? Looks great. Congrats. Are those your first projects?
Have you got to go on an outing with them yet?
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." -Terry Pratchett
“I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.” - Cormac McCarthy
Thanks for the responses guys. This is not my first project, but first in a while. A few years back I made a copy of a Moss Heptawing. I started out with a Ray Way quilt, then hammock, then Sportsman's Guide underquilt (not a worthwhile project), then poles, then tarp.
Both sides and ends of the tarp are cat cut, or pretty close to cat cut.
Logan
It helps keep the edges taught giving you are really tight pitch. Do some searches here. That concept is beat into the ground more than a few times by people on both sides. I like it though. BB has a link at the bottom of his posts giving a link to his directions.
Just don't get caught in the cat cut vs red neck version (i.e. bent stick).
Is that too much to ask? Girls with frikkin' lasers on their heads?
The hanger formly known as "hammock engineer".
The S.G. underquilt wasn't worthwhile for me because (you guessed it) it's both heavy and not much insulation. The finished quilt weighs 15 ozs, and was super easy to make. The fabric weighs lots, or at least seems to in comparisson to my 1.1 oz nylon and the insulation was a real disappointment. It is pre quilted something and calling it 4 tenths of an inch thick (to equate to Thru Hiker's pre quilted primaloft) is generous. When I dissected the sleeping bag I founds lots of scrim and thin spots,etc. I thought I was saving money with the project, but in the future I will use fabric I already have and buy insulation from Thru Hiker. Live and learn. As far as underquilts go, I'm thinking or scrapping the whole idea for the summer and using a my golite poncho slung under my hammock with a pad in it. I haven't weighed the options yet, but seems like a winner. Winter will be a different story though.
Cheers,
Logan
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