Hi all,
Thought i'd shew you my (scabby) handiwork in sewing this webbing loop. I sealed the thread with superglue.
Slow process and I broke 6 needles in two!!
I'm confident it will hold...famous last words????
Boundfree
Hi all,
Thought i'd shew you my (scabby) handiwork in sewing this webbing loop. I sealed the thread with superglue.
Slow process and I broke 6 needles in two!!
I'm confident it will hold...famous last words????
Boundfree
Hand stitched or machine ?
I've done plenty by hand and they're still going strong, similar pattern to you too.
I used a Speedy Stitcher to make climbing "swami belts" and rappel harnesses. Still alive today!
My favorite stitch pattern was a simple
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running along the major axis of the webbing. Easy to do, easy to see if I made a mistake. Can be done with one or two needles as well as an awl.
Jim
"Love the earth and the sun and the animals, despise riches, stand up for the stupid and crazy, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God.
Have patience and indulgence towards people, re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,
dismiss whatever insults your own soul.
This love above all love has leisure and expanse."
Whitman
http://speedystitcher.com/
A really cool tool for sewing webbing, heavy canvas, leather etc. There is a learning curve, but it is not too steep. Just don't saw a groove in your little finger! Or stab yourself. But then again, the best lessons are learned through pain.
Jim
Be careful! You need to use JSaults' stitch pattern, because it is the longitudinal stitches that give it strength! Just add them parallel to the blue thread.
- MacEntyre
"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." - Ben Franklin
www.MollyMacGear.com
Would you happen to have the link to the paper about stitch strength testing done for a caving publication? It was here on HF some months ago, but darned if I can find it!
Jim
I don't know about that paper... I've learned by listening to mentors, including Ramblin' Rev on HF. The local Consew shop owner discussed making bar tacks with me, and emphasized the strength of the straight stitch as opposed to the zig zag. He couldn't understand why military MOLLE gear uses zig zag stitches for the PALS array bar tacks, when longitudinal staight stitches are so much stronger.
If you look at safety harnesses, you will see that they eschew the box stitch in favor or your longitudinal pattern, JSaults. That's how I make loops in webbing.
- MacEntyre
"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." - Ben Franklin
www.MollyMacGear.com
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