This is my first DIY Hammock. I was asked to post pictures of the product in this thread. I didn't end up making a Hennessy clone, like I originally intended, but took a lot of elements from it. The first picture shows it on my porch in New Orleans.
General info:
The material is a single layer of 1.1 ounce Ripstop from Backwoods Daydreamer. The length is around 11 feet and it is the full width (roughly 60 inches, I think).
Ridgeline:
I ended up sewing up 8 inches or so of the end like this thread suggested, and put cord into the whipping for an internal structural ridgeline. I have mine on two biners right now because I have not been able to find any really light descender rings. I think I will eventually switch one of the biners with a ring, but keep he other. I want it to be removable and easily changed. The biners are very light (26 grams each), and the line itself is just 2mm utility cord from my local outdoor store. I have not settled on a length for sure yet. I'm thinking of replacing both biners with nacabiners, but we'll see. You can see the ridgeline in the second picture.
Whipping:
I used the whipping suggested here by wilsonbmw in the thread about the disassembly of the Hennessy rather than the one here in the Hennessy clone thread. I tried them both, but liked the lay better the way suggested in the first thread. You can see it in the last picture.
Thoughts:
It lays pretty flat, at least by my standards. The single layer 1.1 doesn't seems to be a problem yet, at least. I am not feeling the stretch that I was worried about, but maybe I haven't spent enough time in it. I am 200 poundsish for the record. It seems really light, but I don't have a scale and any weights that I cited earlier come from what the manufacturers say. I also made some whoopies and love them.
Now on to the tarp. I also need some kind of stuff sack or blackbishop bag, we'll see.
Thanks for looking!
Hope this picture thing works, I'm kinda a technotard.
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