[pct-l] ZPacks HexaNet Solo Bug Shelter

[Kevin Cook]

I like it too! It is fun. :)

I make my stuff because I can never find anyone selling exactly what I want.
My stuff can compete weight wise if you take into consideration
features/comfort. ie my tarps are huge (10' x 12'). The new one should still
only weight about 9 oz though. The bug net will weight just as much though!.
Oh well. an 18 oz bug proof shelter with that much livable space is worth
it.

See ya on the trail!

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes <
diane at santabarbarahikes.com> wrote:

> I've never sewn silnylon. I can only imagine the headaches! I have a Pfaff
> and someone told me they come with a walking foot so I could be sewing
> silnylon right now. I have a box of feet but have never looked to see if any
> of them is a walking foot (as if I'd even know what one looked like.)
>
> My latest thing is to use my Pfaff to sew shoes. I've been trying to make
> my own shoes. I am determined to one day make a pair of hiking shoes. I have
> made some but they aren't perfect. I used my Pfaff, sans thread, to punch
> holes in the leather for even hand stitches.
>
> Making your own gear is fun. I don't even really care that my tarp and bug
> net tent weigh more than a Hexamid, or that my homemade hiking shoes are
> leather and not breathable mesh. It's fun to make stuff.
>
>
> On Jan 28, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Kevin Cook wrote:
>
>  Tarps are much easier to make than a tent. Still not easy, but imagine
>> only
>> the top of your tarp? LOL
>>
>> I could make a tarp in an afternoon, with material in hand, but I've made
>> a
>> LOT of tarps. Silnylon can be a pain to work with too. I'm gathering the
>> necessary materials to make a Cuben tarp next! Should have the last of
>> what
>> I need next week. Got my Cuben this week. That stuff is spendy!
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes <
>> diane at santabarbarahikes.com> wrote:
>>
>>  An afternoon? You must be an excellent seamstress (seamster??). I
>>> sewed my own bugnet tent. It took forever. I don't know how to put in
>>> a door or zipper so I left it floorless and lift a corner to get in.
>>> And I'm sure it weighs more than 6 point whatever ounces and that's
>>> without a tarp on top or a floor underneath.
>>> On Jan 28, 2011, at 9:46 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> That certainly makes $40 worth of SilNylon and an afternoon sewing
>>>> a tarp
>>>> look even more attractive.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Steel-Eye
>>>>
>>>
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