as.ks.ak Sewing Projects Thread.

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@as.ks.ak

What part of Alaska do you live in? I live in Fairbanks and do some sewing.

 

[as.ks.ak]

@as.ks.ak

What part of Alaska do you live in? I live in Fairbanks and do some sewing.

I’m waaaaay down in southeast, a whole world away from you!


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[stvnshnn]

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I’m in Fairbanks and doing some simple sewing stuff. What are you sewing?


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[450]

[mention]450 [/mention]
I’m in Fairbanks and doing some simple sewing stuff. What are you sewing?


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Pull-Outs, Field Chairs, Enclosed my SxS

 

[as.ks.ak]

Most recently, I started adding a little branding to the projects. I think it adds the little “finished” touch they needed.


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[as.ks.ak]

This bag goes to an avid hiker and coffee drinker. Made it tall enough to fit a 1/5th of whiskey of your choosing, or fireball to make those toasty warm soapy smith cocktails.

Xpac stash bag for his coffee filter to keep the grime off his other contents.

Before I gave it to customer I added a snap to the right zipper pull of the black 1000d cordura bag and the other snap to the top zipper pull of the xpac bag so when the filter is in use he has somewhere to hold his xpac bag so that it doesn’t get misplaced or blow away.

Cool little functional coffee hiker bag.


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[Dos Perros]

Who are you using for the labels? I tried some folks off Etsy and wasn't impressed.

 

[as.ks.ak]

Who are you using for the labels? I tried some folks off Etsy and wasn't impressed.

Ripstopbytheroll.com

You can upload your graphic onto any of the fabrics they print on. Pretty easy process. Not incredibly cheap, but well worth it to me. Rather spend a little more and have them on my stuff VS. have my creations running around nameless!


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[as.ks.ak]

Back at it! Making Christmas presents is fun!

1000d Cordura Supercub duffle. (Has no metal on entire bag except for the zipper slider).

Headed to a great home. I imagine we’ll see this duffle with plenty of dead critters over the years if a guy keeps his eyes peeled on this site for it.


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[eamyrick]

So good. I have a ton of ideas.

 

[Clarktar]

Back at it! Making Christmas presents is fun!

1000d Cordura Supercub duffle. (Has no metal on entire bag except for the zipper slider).

Headed to a great home. I imagine we’ll see this duffle with plenty of dead critters over the years if a guy keeps his eyes peeled on this site for it.


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I like this one!!

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[SLDMTN]

Back at it! Making Christmas presents is fun!

1000d Cordura Supercub duffle. (Has no metal on entire bag except for the zipper slider).

Headed to a great home. I imagine we’ll see this duffle with plenty of dead critters over the years if a guy keeps his eyes peeled on this site for it.


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Nah….it’s going to a non killing nerd.

 

[Dos Perros]

Back at it! Making Christmas presents is fun!

1000d Cordura Supercub duffle. (Has no metal on entire bag except for the zipper slider).

Headed to a great home. I imagine we’ll see this duffle with plenty of dead critters over the years if a guy keeps his eyes peeled on this site for it.


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I think there is a market for something like this in Xpac (waterproof) but for the tops of motorcycle/dirtbike frames. Just gotta add some strapping to the bottom to attach to a frame. Like the straps on top for attaching a bow.

 

[as.ks.ak]

I think there is a market for something like this in Xpac (waterproof) but for the tops of motorcycle/dirtbike frames. Just gotta add some strapping to the bottom to attach to a frame. Like the straps on top for attaching a bow.

I think you’re right. For a product like that my biggest concern would be zipper location and making it as water tight as possible with what’s available on the market without making the zipper cost three times more than the bag itself. Going 60 miles an hour in the rain, not much is going to be waterproof. Unless it’s rubber. Just my .02.

I think the next one I make is going to be in Xpac with stitched and taped seams. My only concern with Xpac is how durable it is.

If it wasn’t so expensive, I would use the Challenge Ultra 200 but that’s gonna drive the bag cost way up. Which is why I went with 1000D cordura on gen 1.

I am open to all suggestions and opinions!


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[Pdxfire1]

Those bags look great. Looking at getting a sewing machine myself.

 

[as.ks.ak]

May or may not have taken a tumble last fall and put my spotting scope in the morgue. After having repairs done it was time to make a cover for it. My new industrial sewing machine has the presser foot clearance to get two pieces stacked of this 5mm neoprene underneath it. Pretty thick cushioning for the spotter. Originally I tried for a one piece cover design but realized I wanted the ability to rotate my eyepiece and not have the cover bunch up. So we cut ‘er in two. Happy with the simplicity of it and how repeatable the pattern is.


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[Bachto]

Which industrial are you running? I have a sailrite and really like it. It's a bit hard to sew the super light stuff with but other than that I really enjoy it.

 

[TBass]

Just an FYI - I run a Janome HD3000. The machine is absolutely incredible for running almost any type of material through it... from lace to cordura. There is a video on Youtube showing a guy sewing denim to cloth and then to tissue paper... all without lifiting the presser foot. There are aslo vidows of people sewing 8 (or more) pieces of denim together.

Although I don't use my maching to such an extreme, I have sewing everything from neoprene, Cordura, denim, and just standard cloth. The automatic tension guide works incredibly well.

Super happy with the machine.

 

[Bachto]

Just an FYI - I run a Janome HD3000. The machine is absolutely incredible for running almost any type of material through it... from lace to cordura. There is a video on Youtube showing a guy sewing denim to cloth and then to tissue paper... all without lifiting the presser foot. There are aslo vidows of people sewing 8 (or more) pieces of denim together.

Although I don't use my maching to such an extreme, I have sewing everything from neoprene, Cordura, denim, and just standard cloth. The automatic tension guide works incredibly well.

Super happy with the machine.

admittedly it may be user error on my part, it's supposed to be able to do some super light stuff. I tried some ripstop and it worked okay but I may have had the presser foot pressure up too high. I don't do super light stuff that much though.

 

[TBass]

So I went from sewing Ripstop material.. directly to sewing canvas strap to heavy Cordura. The ONLY thing that I changed was my thread type. Other than that the Janome HD3000 automatically adjusted the tension.

Before I bought this machine I did a ton of research & used several other machines. In the end I did not go with a full blow industrial machine because of the overall lack of features. One of the key features that I found lacking in real heavy duty industrial machines was the lack of a stitch designed to sew stretchy material like neoprene.

Initally I thought going with this machine (the Janome HD3000) was truly going to be a comprimise between an industrial machine and a commerical machine. And the industrial machines are so much more expensive. What I have found is that this machine handles every project I throw at it regardless of the material type. Even the Cordura projects don't seem to bog the machine down.