that exact question above. I apologize for making a thread at it but Im nervous about tearing up my hennessy bag but I just want to make sure I can. Im planing on using a soldering iron to burn one end. any feedback would be great.
that exact question above. I apologize for making a thread at it but Im nervous about tearing up my hennessy bag but I just want to make sure I can. Im planing on using a soldering iron to burn one end. any feedback would be great.
Sure can. I sewed a reinforcement square into the bottom of mine and then burnt s hole through both layers.
Go for it (even w/o the reinforcement).
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thanx and ill be using your gathered end method pretty soonOriginally Posted by Knotty
You two have convinced me. I'm doing mine tomorrow!
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just did my bishop bag with burning hole. waiting to look at a sewing machine tomorrow to see about making my first gathered end
If you burn a hole, it'll fray over time. Not a big deal, but the hole will get a little bigger and look fuzzy.
You can snap a little grommet into a stuffsack if you don't want to sew up a new bag, though.
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What about a grommet kit?
That should work great. Don't need big grommets, either.
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Third for using a little grommet. If metal ones scare you, OWF sells plastic ones too (I think you'd want a reinforced piece if you're using their plastic ones, they don't quite have the bite that the metal ones do).
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I used a Power Zap tool to melt out one of the squares in the grid stop of mine. Didn't bother the reinforce it. So far, so good.
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