Kettle Sleeve

[Chainsaw]

Posted this over on SotP but thought I'd pop it on here too.

Hi All,

Had a small dose of Duluth fever recently, thanks for that slamdunk

and decided I wanted something nice to carry my ghillie kettle in. Pointless but rewarding

In speaking to MagiKelly, he mentioned he had some heavy canvas and a sewing machine but hadn't really done too much with it. Luckily for me he was suitably inspired by my proposal and I got the kettle sleeve yesterday. There was also a wee belt in the parcel for going round the top so that saved me some leather and a buckle!!

Anyway, here it is;

Front view

Rear view, I put a loop in as the strap is pretty long to accomodate all sizes and makes of kettle and it flapped about annoyingly (cat loved it though!)

Kettle out the bag

Compared to the old bag(!)

Not to everyones taste I know but I'm pretty pleased with it, it looks and feels nice, much better than the black nylon thing.

Big, big thanks to MK for doing all the hard work with the canvas and having all the right tools, I handstitched a wee bit of the canvas and it was bloomin' heavy going, wouldn't like to do much more so

for that. Leather work was straightforward couple of rivets and some tabs.
Now about a pouch for my trangia 27-8.......

Cheers,

Alan

 

[Shewie]

Nicely done John, I thought you were having a go yourself at Achray Alan ?

Looks the part and something I've been meaning to do with my KK for a while now.

 

[Ogri the trog]

Oh yes, very nice,

Thats an idea that'll be stolen for sure!

Ogri the trog

 

[Chainsaw]

Nicely done John, I thought you were having a go yourself at Achray Alan ?

MK did the canvas and I did the leather. He included a leather belt that was to go round the top but that didn't work too well but after some cutting and punching and dyeing it worked great for the straps. Saved me a good bit of time

Cheers,

Alan

 

[MagiKelly]

I still like the draw closer idea better. Had it been for me I think I might have added brass ovals to the outside for the belt to run through.

 

[topknot]

Hi, very nice, i like it when a idea comes good.
Cheers Topknot.

 

[belzeebob23]

Looking good chainsaw