"Do or do not, there is no try." -- Yoda
If this advice is for me, I don't think washing and preshrinking works on treated canvas.
It should have been preshrunk before they treated it for fire and mold.
Makes perfect sense if your using new untreated canvas like fronkey might use.
I'm starting to rethink this whole canvas project. With all the web searching, forum reading that I've been doing and thinking
hard about canvas. Some very bad memories from my boy scouting days (1966-68) with canvas tents have started to resurface.
I'm now thinking of using a custom sized syl nylon Grizz Beak (12" @ RL x 7' side along the tarp x 5' each side at the ground) with a fiberglass
(welding pad) as a heat shield on the inside.
GrizzBeaks move a lot in the wind. I can't have it touching the stove pipe. I'm hoping the fiberglass pad will stiffen the nylon up
to help reduce the movement and if it did touch the stove pipe for a few seconds nothing should burn or melt.
This fiberglass cloth should not hold water or allow mold to grow.
All guess on my part.
Still plan to use a stove jack for the stove pipe thru the wall.
Last edited by OutandBack; 01-11-2012 at 22:39.
I ginned up a bridge hammock made of 9 oz canvas and hemp rope a couple of years ago (or more), part of an HF "Vintage Hammock" making contest. I used a Speedy Stitcher to sew channels for the rope down both sides of the hammock. That's about 14' of 8 stitches per inch. Took a while but I got pretty quick with all the practice.
Grizz
(alias ProfessorHammock on youtube)
Just so folks know,,,Snowtrekker fabric is 7.50z,,real double fill,,Sunforger Marine Boat Shrunk. Its $12/yrd 60" wide. They make a very good product and the canvas they sell is what they make their tents out of. Very nice folks to deal with and i have to say i'm totally impressed with their material . It makes the other canvas's i've been dealing with seem like burlap. I had bought some drop clothes and that was what i was going to make my shelter out of and then i did another wash and the material all shrunk one way as if made with two different materials. That's when i decided to bite the bullet and order the Snowtrekker stuff. In the end it will cost me twice as much but i think i'll end up with more than twice the goodness. Having said that numerous folks have bought drop cloths from Menard's and found it worked just fine for dry cold weather camping.
bill
up to my neck in material.
" The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it."
“The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.” ~Wayne Dyer
www.birchsidecustomwoodwork.com
Hey Fronkey; the floor is 9x11. Its my own design but nothing revolutionary and someone's probably made something like this before in the tent world,, wedge on one side and short wall ( 30") on the other,,which means most of the tent space is on the front side of the hammock , wedge on the back side. I got 22 yrds but have a bunch left over, well that is unless i make a mistake on the stuff i have left to do. You should give Duane a call, i'm sure he'd let you drop by and visit the shop and p/u material . The shipping was a big expense for me. When i'm done which hopefully will be in a couple of wks i post a pic.
bill
" The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it."
“The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.” ~Wayne Dyer
www.birchsidecustomwoodwork.com
Yeah. Pics. Definitely. That short wall sounds interesting. How are you closing your doors? Ties? Zippers? Fastex buckles?
Dave
"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."~~~May Sarton
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