sewing
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Lock stitching accident
Well, I was finishing up a splice tonight with lock stitching. Since I do not have a sailmaker's palm, I use the inside of a thimble to help push the needle through difficult areas in the throat of the splice. It's worked OK for a while until the eye of the needle went through the thimble into...- Treezybreez
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- oops! sewing
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- Forum: The Splice Rack
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Simple webbing pull test
Hi all, I know TS offers this service but I am checking to see if anyone on here has a less official (free) method of testing break strength up to 5k lbs. I don't need it to be exact, just ball parky. I am experimenting with some machine sewn webbing for non life support use. After a lot of...- FreeFallin
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- bad ideas pull test sewing webbing
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- Forum: The Splice Rack
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Ugly Homemade Throwbag
Thought I would share a throw bag I made this morning with some extra webbing and heavy backpack fabric I had, I don't sew pretty, I do overbuild and make functional so this might get stuck in a tree the first time I take it out, but it definitely won't rip. I'm still pretty new to climbing, so...- FreeFallin
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- homemade sewing throwing
- Replies: 16
- Forum: The Splice Rack
