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Top notch, 2Q. Love the shelf idea. i use a hammock in my room for my bed and i rock the 'eye sore' eye bolt straight into the wall. It works, but its not classy by any means. Post picks when you get...

looks gooood! Nice use in contrast on the stititching. Seams look bullet proof too. I find JoAnns ripstop to be about 1.9 or so. I've made a lot of gear with their ripstop and never had any...

i just made a summer UQ with a yard of ripstop and a military jacket liner. Ct the seams out and layed the jacket out flat, sewed it to the ripstop and basically made a 1/2 or 3/4 size light weight...

Thank you, thats great! Andso begins the next round of the DIY bug...

wow brilliant. Truly awesome. I love winter gear, too bad we didn't get much of a winter this year:( i can see you building a down pillow exo-suit for hangin out around camp and when bed time roles...

base camp fortess! I likes it. grosgrain your slit/openings and have at it.

sveeet! Thanks for the heads up. I know what i'll be doin today after work.

looks great, the white trim really makes it pop.

Seattle fabrics has a large selection of colors but they arn't the cheapest out there.

it might work but it is heavier than noseeum and the holes are larger.might not hold the down in its chamber. Diygearsupply.com has noseeum for like 4 bucks

if its not cotton than go for it. Harbor freight gas glow in the dark rope too. Do your rig up like Tron

sooo you're thinkin a hammock with a built in bugnet? Like a hennessy or WBBB? Or something more like the erika crystalist? Sky's the limit if you've got the planning and the patints. Heck, you might...

morning view, kentucky welcomes ya.

welcome to the forum, you'll find sooo much info and sooo many cool people here. TheDIY community is awesome and it really is addicting. It starts with a whipped hammock, then a stuff sack for it,...

welcome to the forums from KY and say hello to your new diy addiction. It never stops with just one hammock.

i picked up a whole bolt of nylon/poly/ect blend for $5 from walmart. I talked to the nice little old lady about what it ment by 'blend' and she told me that they melt all the scrapes and make a...

trail of bread crumbs? lol
small relective something er other near your rig so your headlamp can point it out

i don't Think the diygearsupply reflective material is breathable. It too caught my eye, but i was thinking of using it in 3-6" strips running lengthwise all the way around the inside of the sock....

the short edges won't need hemmed, and the long sides just need hemmed to insure it won'tufrey. You could skip the pins, ironing and hem all together by heat sealing the edges. Either with a wood...

My first tarp, and only tarp thus far, was simply two pieces of fabric sewn together to make a 10x10 square. Flatt feld seam the two together and seam seal with a silicone/paint thinner mix. Now...

Thanks guys. That's the direction i was leaning toward, and that Fronkey inspired bugnet is great. i can invission a bug net for summer bug nasty and a sock for winter camp cozy. i'd rather have...

good morning all, i've got a quick question to toss out there. I'm about to make my second homemade hammock and was contumplating which design i should go with. My first hammock was made with an...

see if this helps:
http://www.hammockforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=46604&highlight=hammock+length

i know that for my diy, i had to whip and re-whip my hammock at least a dozen times. each time i thought i had it dialed in, but then i'd find issues with lay. the center ridge is common, try...

sharp. Nice. Congrats. Ect. Seriously thats a very proffessional rig ya got there. I agree, light color tarps are nice. Not so much for 'stealth camping' but are awesome in a thunderstorm :)

diygearsupply, seatle fabric, wilderness logics are a few off the top of my head, bubba shumubba. The loose synthetic is news to me, keep us posted on the project, thepikey. Maybe with a littl time...

Thats What i figured. Thanks guys.

has anyone tried buying the sil-nylon off of ebay? Its something like $1.85 a foot, less than 6 a yard. Has anyone purchased this stuff? How did it look? Perform? Ect i want to make a new tarp but am...

your stitching looks great. Really. Straight and tight.

very cool. Err i mean warm.looks very professional

kudos on the built in insulation sleeve too :)

awsome. So the sides are brought around and pulled taught at the top via shock cord? I've got your basic hammock sock, fitted at one end and draw string at the other, but it is a bit cumbersome and...

you could always go with 9' to 10' hammocks and have plenty of material for other fun little projects like snake skins, bbsacks, peak bags, ect. Glad to hear you've got your kidsinvolved in the...

two coats now?! Why, we're just a blue lion away from an underquilt voltron!

sweet can't wait to see it finished. :) happy trails

oh dude, you're golden. Are you at all familiar with the military jacket liners? ($5-10 at surplus) they're the insulation component to the military's jacket layering system. Anyway, they ar just...

brilliant! My tarp sack is gettin this mod for sure. Thanks for the idea.

when i was camping in ny over christmas my set up got me to the upper 20's low 30's. When visiting my cousin, i was explaining how i had a little CBS the night before (and then had to explain why i...

go for it.

very nice. I dig the color. Have you come across a peak bag yet? There's a good step by step out there, i just can't remember where.

hammock sock for sure. Mine is as simple as it gets, fitted at the foot end and open with adrawstring at the head. The bottom is sil (to protect the uq) and the top is breathable polyester(to make...

ohmuhgawd! That's the best diy story ever. I can see it now, played out before me in cartoon form.

That reminds me of Danniel Tosh's stand up where he's talkin about lovin his down pillow. "Do you love goose down feathers...its like sleepin in heaven...'til that quill pokes thru the pillow case...

awesome :)

hahaha, yep i too have three packs and no filrter system. I thought i was the only one with that afliction. Looks like you've got some good stuff there. The first thing i would recomend is the GSI...

last i knew hancockfabrics had ripstop nylon on sale, $2.50/yard

yeah and the local hancock fabrics here in Newport has coated ripstop for the sale price mentioned earlier in this thread. At least they did last week, i haven't been over there in a while to check...

awh shucks, ya makin me blush :) thanks for the thumbs up. Right now i'm working on a picnic blanket for a friend that also doubles as a imprompt to tarp shelter...

last night i finally got around to making another ridge line gear loft/pouch/whatever the correct term is. I had made one out of noseeum netting in the past, but it just didn't have any style points,...

congrats on your first hang. Its so satisfying to make your own gear isn't it?