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    Quote Originally Posted by jellyfish View Post






    Seems to work fine with 2.5oz CS


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    I'm getting ready to do this with my Costco Primaloft Throws and I'm wondering if you are using polypropylene webbing or grosgrain?
    How do you prefer to hang? A short drop from a long rope or a long drop from a short rope?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Earl D View Post
    I'm getting ready to do this with my Costco Primaloft Throws and I'm wondering if you are using polypropylene webbing or grosgrain?
    Either will work but grosgrain will be easier to punch snaps through and sew.

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    Thanks! It looks like I'm going with grosgrain as I can find the colors I want. I can have any color in webbing as long as it black.
    How do you prefer to hang? A short drop from a long rope or a long drop from a short rope?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Earl D View Post
    I can have any color in webbing as long as it black.
    Not true. (you're just not looking hard enough!)

    Ripstop by the Roll

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    Quote Originally Posted by Earl D View Post
    I can find the colors I want. I can have any color in webbing as long as it black.
    Henry Ford reference, I like it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dscotthep View Post
    Not true. (you're just not looking hard enough!)

    Ripstop by the Roll

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    Thanks for the links dscotthep. When I can, I prefer to buy local. My local go-to for camping gear and supplies is going out of business and the only color they have remaining is black. Plus, I'm doing a demonstration for the local Scout Troop this Saturday and the shipping/receiving time is outside the timeframe.
    How do you prefer to hang? A short drop from a long rope or a long drop from a short rope?

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    Holy thread revival Batman!

    Here's some photos of my clew-suspended home-sleeping underblanket which I use every night when I'm not at my partner's place or camping. I made it about a year ago using info from this thread.
    It's made from three cotton blankets and one woollen one. My attachement method was to sew eyelets through which the clew loops are passed. I intended to turn some small dowels with notches for the shock cord to sit in, but I never got around to it so I just have a stout rope holding them in place. The grey paracord in a couple of photos was from while I was waiting for the shock cord to arrive.
    The theory behind this design was that it would be simple to add or remove blankets throughout the year to account for temperature changes, but I've ended up just removing the woollen one during summer or going entirely without when the weather goes above 30ºC or so. Still, I feel like the multiple layers is rather luxurious. I may add another layer this winter. My hammock is an Amazonas Paradiso cotton double, and my doona is a 500gsm wool single with a linen cover. As you may have noticed, I like my natural fibres.

    There's no way a channel suspension would be able to snug this sort of weight up without going up to 1" bungee jumping ropes.

    I have plans to make a clew suspended asymmetric down UQ for hiking sometime in the next few months.







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    I have done several versions of clew suspension attachment points ... the latest one seems pretty easy and it's very light

    First it uses 1/2" grosgrain as the base, with 1/4" grosgrain loops .... this is a loop piece, a pinned piece and a sewed piece progression shot

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    Once you get all the loops done, you have this

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    This attaching the base and loops to the quilt

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    To connect the loops to the actual clews, I just use 1/2" split rings ... they are very light

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    I don't know if those split rings are brass, but they look very dapper. Nice thinking on the grosgrain.
    Corvis natum est.

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    I'm getting back into overnight hiking after a number of years of just doing day walks. Took an overnighter last week just to do a bit of a shakedown of my gear, and discovered that my channel suspended UQ wasn't as snug as I'd like it (you're in this thread so you know what I'm talking about).
    Today I've got the day to myself to dial in/sew/adapt my gear, and tried to get the UQ snug to no avail. So I pulled out the channel suspension and did a quick-and-dirty clew setup. I only had enough 1.6mm shock cord lying around for six nettles at each end, but that seems to have been sufficient for my lightweight down ¾ UQ.
    The issue I had, however, is being able to shift the UQ up and down the length of the hammock so it just snugs around my shoulders. Not such a problem with full length UQs, I would imagine.
    I'm sure I'm not the first to come up with this, but I thought I'd share my solution anyway:

    Last edited by Caconym; 05-10-2021 at 02:41.
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