DIY Asym SilPoly tarp!

[bryce88]

So this is my first real DIY piece of gear besides a little stuff sack for my cook kit. I had a blast building it and even more testing it out. I roughly used the guidelines for an Asym tarp from diygearsupply.com with some personal modifications.

I started out with 4 yards of 1.1 oz SilPoly from ripstopbytheroll.



Then I measured and cut it to the size I needed.

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I then embarked on the painstaking task of hemming the entire thing. I wish I had found those threads on the hemming tool things before did this, but live and learn!



Then came the corners and tie out points. I realize this could be somewhat overkill but I think it turned out looking pretty nice.

[bryce88]

With the grosgrain edging

added the silkworms from Dutch. Awesome by the way, they are really simple to use and work great! I used a piece of 7/8 grosgrain folded in half to sew the silkworms on because it was the perfect size for the slot.

The ridge line tie outs got a similar treatment but with polyester webbing. All the corner reinforcement is 1.6 oz ripstop by the way.

Here's some testing in the house


I made a little double ended stuff sack and I'm super pleased with how small it packs down and how light it is.

it weighs just over 8 oz and that is including all suspension lines, guy out lines, stuff sack, stakes(titanium nail stakes from Dutch) and all hardware like silkworms a flea and a Dutch hook.


I finally got to try it out for real and it worked great. I slept under it in the rain and no problems at all. warm and dry!

[PointPastor]

Awesome tarp, nice stitch work.

[Envikin]

Great looking thread work! I wish I could make time to do some DIY projects.

[Russtang]

Very nice job! Great pics too.

[V_Allen]

Really, really nice!

[randomsteve95370]

Thats pretty awesome looking. I just finished up a 12x10 silpoly tarp and now your making me want to make an asym one for good weather as well. :P

[bryce88]

Yeah I decided to go with the asym because it uses like half of the material so it's quite a bit cheaper, lighter and smaller and because I live in Utah and it doesn't rain that much it was the perfect option for me.

[ripstopbytheroll]

This is really, really nice! Thanks for sharing all the details and taking those nice pics. You've got a nice eye.

Question. Would you mind if I posted this on the site and sent you a 10% off coupon for your next build??? Thanks again for posting.

[geneaut]

Now you got me itching to order some silpoly from Kyle. I've been thinking about doing a small asym for my backpacking setup.