Day pack planning

[machinethomas]

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[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

Aside from the webbing/zipper/buckles here is the entirety of the pack, doesn't look like much.

But some time on the machine tonight and I knocked out the front panel, back panel, and the inverted "U" section that has the main zipper.

 

[yardwork]

Subscribed and will be following along to see how it turns out. Figuring out what to sew first so it has a nice, finished appearance when done has to be the biggest challenge.

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

Figuring out what to sew first so it has a nice, finished appearance when done has to be the biggest challenge.

That's where having that model sitting on the table as I go has been helpful visualizing. I need to confirm the length of the main zipper chunk now that its assembled, add the top PALS and water hose pass through and then the biggest part (in my mind) of the whole assembly is attaching the front/back to the sides. Those seams attaching the sides will have ALOT going on, esp. since the top is part of the sides so I'll end up working a lot at once. There is ripstop nylon on the back of that front pocket, I'll be adding two internal side pouches (like that water bladder pouch) so that needs to get tucked in, the external side pockets tie in at the bottom of the side seams and I have side compression straps to embed as well (or on the back I have to get the frame slot piece in there). I'll just take my time with lots of binder clips getting all the stuff in place before sitting down in front of the machine, laying down the actual stitches has been the easy part in all this.

I've got some light lifting to do still making the rear sleeve piece, bottom tail, and side pockets before taking the big plunge. By the time the sides sewn on it'll be a cakewalk to cap off the bottom and be done.

Fingers crossed.

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

Still have the bottom/tail to go but tired for today:

 

[cvandervort]

Wow, man. Looks great so far!

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[realunlucky]

Impressive turned out very nice

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[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

Thanks, still need to finish off the bottom (it's drapped over the chair, haha) and strap it up to the pack (I did check the frame sleeve right after sewing it for fit though, good to go there). I could point out some minor things like my PALS ended up a bit too close together but it will still do what I need it to do. The internal side pockets I should have sewn on with the zipper but luckily the wide flange had enough width inside to sew it to instead. Etc. you can only try and out plan things but until you do it there is bound to be some learning curve.

 

[WoodBow]

Looks excellent man. Strong work. Im impressed.

 

[yardwork]

Well done, looks great. Where did you buy your buckles in Coyote?

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

Most I will need are coming from the hudson group order we placed but the 4 that needed to be sewn on right now I got from rockywoods. They have some hardware in coyote.

 

[wyodan]

Here is kinda what is ratting around in my head at the moment. Normally for day pack mode I don't suspect there is much need to use the compression points from the frame bottom and frame top to the pack face. The pack isn't that thick and its buckled at the bottom rear and the frame is in the sleeve at the top rear so the back of it is tied to the frame sheet well and the side straps should suck up the limited slop in something like a 6" deep pack. This would keep the regular day pack to two sets of side straps.

In meat shelf mode (with the load fitter extension up) I'm wondering if the bottom frame straps are long enough to pass through those webbing slots on the front face and tie into the load lifter buckles, I might need to use accessory straps to make that setup longer and have one long loop compress everything vertically on each side (and pull the load upwards). Either that or perhaps I could put slots on the bottom and top to slip those straps through the pack (against the rear panel) so they'd compresses the rear panel against the load in the meat shelf (as if the rear panel was just a load sling) and again just use the two side straps to suck up the limited slop in the day pack back to the frame.

Nice utilization of the engineering paper. I thought I might be the only one the draws stuff up on that. Very interested in your results, I am wanting to do something like this for my Duplex frame.

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

Nice utilization of the engineering paper. I thought I might be the only one the draws stuff up on that. Very interested in your results, I am wanting to do something like this for my Duplex frame.

I have a 1" pad at home.

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

Day pack done, should have the coyote hardware this weekend to make it fully match. I also plan to cut off the metal pulls and put cordage on them (likely orange to stand out). I will likely built a top pocket to attach to the pals but there is a solid amount of capacity as is in the pack.

 

[WoodBow]

I can dig it. Did you end up doing a cinch cord, elastic, or both on the side pockets?

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

Just some fixed length shock cord in the pockets.

 

[WoodBow]

That's what it looked like. I think i will do the same next time. The cinch is just extra work.

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

That's what it looked like. I think i will do the same next time. The cinch is just extra work.

I thought on it after pinging you, if I did a cinch I would have made a corner a seam and done it like the top of a stuff sack. But thinking back I pretty much set/forget any of the cinch style shockcord bags I've had and also I just had black shock cord on hand while otherwise doing a pretty good job matching colors so that tipped the scale.

 

[William Hanson (live2hunt)]

Looks good. It would make a very effective whitetail pack.

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

Looks good. It would make a very effective whitetail pack.

Should work for anything that is day use or minimalist bivy action. You could put a load cell between to extend it but might as well bust out the larger metcalf bag this started as at that point.

Honestly the bag seems a tad big but I haven't pulled my normal gear out and packed it in there yet to see how if all fits (still need to clean up all the thread cut offs and fabric scraps around the table I was working on in my gear room), it does compress down well and the outline matches the frame so it doesn't feel bulky in that regard. I was thinking gear should fill up around half of it which leaves the other half to accommodate extra clothing layers, esp. on cold hunts.