So, I’m in the process of making my ideal DIY hammock. Based on Papa Smurfs Danger Bird. I’ve added some features from other hammocks, and a few things that just made sense to me. I was going to wait until the build was finished to post this, but I just had to vent to some of my DIY brothers and sisters.
I REALLY dislike zippers!!!!
I've spent an unmentionable number of hours trying to setup two different covers on one zipper track. My plan called for 8 zippers pulls and a couple of months ago when I planned this hammock and ordered everything, I had it all figured out in my head how to set them up. Well tonight I started on the zippers and could not for the life of me figure out how to feed 6 zipper pulls onto one single zipper track and end up with it doing what I wanted. Finally, out of the blue it popped into my head and luck was in my fingers because after struggling for hours feeding zipper pulls on forwards and backwards the last four went right on without a single hitch.
I've never been happier to be done with a particular part of a project before. But man, I REALLY don't like zippers!!!
Next, up is the bug net/Argon top cover and this puppy will be DONE!!
I'll post pics soon, however out of respect for the creator of this design, I'm going to omit some of the details of the build and focus on the final product.
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