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    Made some gear! -Speer 8x10 tarp kit

    Woohoo! It works! Okay, got my 8x10 tarp kit from Ed the other day and just finished it and got it hung out in the back yard.

    I took some "liberties" with the directions to personalize and reinforce it. I put a 6"x6' cat cut along the long edge to see if I could.. Worked out alright. Wish I could have kept it from bunching so much.
    Ridgeline long edge corner
    I got Linelocs for all my tieouts and they're awesome!! I used paracord for the ridgelines and some 2mm cord I have a spool of for knot work for the edges.
    Here's another shot with the flaps down a bit.

    Now to make a bishop bag for it, or skins, I haven't decided yet.
    Ideas? Comments?

    Acer
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    Looks good. Nice camo touch. Keep up the good work.
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    kickin mate. looks the part no doubt
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    I like the camo tieouts - and it looks like you did a bomber job on the ridgeline seam, which can be really tricky on silnylon. Congrats!

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    Wow, thanks for the comments guys! That's high praise coming from you Brian, I still wish I'd been able to get it to bunch less, but it works, so...

    Off to camp and party!
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    Looks terrific and lots of good coverage......
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    I prefer skins to a stuffsack on the tarp...
    tarp looks good and I have the same issues with puckering on the corner reinforcements...
    functionality over fashion, BABY!
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    Great looking tarp. OH yeh!
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    Once I figure out a way to tame my guy lines, I'll probably go with skins.
    I also figured out the solution to my puckering problem. Bobbin tension. I loosened it maaaayybe a 1/8th of a turn, and now it's smooth as silk. So I went ahead and made a double layer out of some nice tan 1.1 from wally World. Now to play around with some different gather styles...

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    Quote Originally Posted by acercanto View Post
    I also figured out the solution to my puckering problem. Bobbin tension. I loosened it maaaayybe a 1/8th of a turn, and now it's smooth as silk. So I went ahead and made a double layer out of some nice tan 1.1 from wally World. Now to play around with some different gather styles...

    Acer

    I'm glad that worked. In general the bobbin does not need to be adjusted once it leaves the factory. That's what the top thread tension range is for. You spool thread tension should be set about in the middle of the range for normal type stitching. If it is not then you system is out of whack. It would be worth the trouble IMO to recalibrate the tensions to fall within those ranges. That means you might need to redo the bobbin tension setting if it was changed dramatically before. The theory here is that all the tension adjustment is done quickly and easily from the accessible controls on the machine. That way you can dial in the proper tension without having to mess around with rethreading the machine. This is particularly important when doing gathering ruffles and such.. not whipping styles) where the tension getts changed to a wide degree. The less messing with the bobbin that is done the easier it is to return to the default settings for the machine.
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