Can you sew too much making a box stitch to support buckles?

[6 feet over]

What I mean is at some point are you weakening more than strengthening?

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[Coffee]

I'm sure there is a point. I have a good number of hangs on my speer webbing with 2 overlapping box with X's. No signs of problems.

One thing I always do now is sew the webbing with a different color. That way I can visually see the stitches. I can see if they went in right or start to pop later.

[6 feet over]

I’ve just learned to sew, and have made a buckle support system for my Claytor similar to Miguel’s (and others). I used camo webbing from Strapworks with black Gutterman’s thread. My second set was noticeably better looking than my first. The first set had thread bunched up on the underside, but I was VERY redundant and think they’ll still hold fine.

JoAnne’s just had a sale, and I got more black as well as gold thread. I’ll use the gold for my next set (to change my Clark). I can’t see that it would matter ‘camo wise’, and would make thread ‘pops’ easier to see going forward.

As always, thanks for the tip!

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[Schneiderlein]

I have managed to perforate 1.9oz ripstop too much when I was trying to attach webbing. The webbing pulled the ripstop out. I was using a bartack and it was way too dense. I think with a box stitch there is less danger if you keep the stitch length long enough, especially when sewing webbing to webbing.

[ame]

I sewed mine by hand. I used very strong thread (I cannot break it by hand, I have to cut it with scissors). For the main straps I made a loop and then, using a backstitch, I sewed two boxes with a diagonal cross in each. The open part of the loop was about 25mm (1") and the sewn area was about 80mm (3"), so each box was about half of that.

Umm, when I'm not sewing I wrestle alligators and play, er, Australian Rules Football.

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[Coffee]

Another thing to watch is the tension. I usually set it a little higher for webbing. That may explain some of it.