Knapsack
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Super job, Topknot. Let us know how you get on with it. I have been thinking about making one too, and it will be nice to find out how well it works.
Great work .
Did you use a domestic sewing machine ? I might be dense, but whats the large rectangular slot, is it access to a lid compartment.
Did you use a domestic sewing machine ? I might be dense, but whats the large rectangular slot, is it access to a lid compartment.
Looks lovely, but I'm just a little consfused (easily done). Any chance of a couple of snaps with something in it so I could get my bearings?
Great job though!
Great job though!
Eric_Methven
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Very nice. let me see if I can guess what all the sections do. Well, it's obvious that there's a main compartment, with it's own flap and closures. The outer flap seems to be double thickness canvas with a slot worked into the inside. The principal reminds me a bit of a market wallet of about 200 years ago. The slot allows you to keep items ready to hand easily so you can just pull them out through the slot without the need to open the main compartment. And the reason for the buckles being at the base of the bag is to give loads of packing room so this bag can really bulge when it's packed. I take it you are going to pop a load more holes in the straps to accommodate a full pack?
Am I correct?
Eric
Am I correct?
Eric
Hi ,
Thank you for the words Eric. Yes i will put more holes in the straps , i got the pattern from the Buckskining book No2 . The bag was sewn on my old sewing machine and the leather was done by hand. Canvas from the market, the man is good as gold i ask and a week later something turns up . I will post a pattern later.
Cheers Topknot.
Thank you for the words Eric. Yes i will put more holes in the straps , i got the pattern from the Buckskining book No2 . The bag was sewn on my old sewing machine and the leather was done by hand. Canvas from the market, the man is good as gold i ask and a week later something turns up . I will post a pattern later.
Cheers Topknot.
Sorry, the slot on the top has a communication with the main compartment ??? This kind of bag seems to be perfect to my survival kit! If you can post a pattern, and some more detailed pictures about the top slot and it function, I will really appreciate.
Marcelo, from Argentina
Marcelo, from Argentina
Eric_Methven
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
The top slot is simply a quick way of getting stuff out of and into the front flap. It does not give access to the main compartment. Imagine if you will, you have your bread and cheese wrapped in a linen handkerchief. It's in the main compartment along with your firelighting kit, tinder, pipe and tobacco. It's all in there neat and tidy and you are happily wandering on your journey. The weather is fine but there are clouds in the distance. You have a lightweight waterproof jacket but you don't need it at the moment. So you scrunch it up and stick it in the slot in the front flap. You also have your folded map in there.
It starts raining, so you just undo the front flap, pull out your waterproof without the need to open the main compartment and put it on. Then you can pull out your map the same way, check it and stick it back in again without risk of your bread, cheese,tobacco or tinder getting wet.
Well, that's it's traditional use, but in modern parlance it's basically the same. A knapsack with an extra easy to access compartment in the lid.
Eric
It starts raining, so you just undo the front flap, pull out your waterproof without the need to open the main compartment and put it on. Then you can pull out your map the same way, check it and stick it back in again without risk of your bread, cheese,tobacco or tinder getting wet.
Well, that's it's traditional use, but in modern parlance it's basically the same. A knapsack with an extra easy to access compartment in the lid.
Eric
A similar pattern which could be adapted may be found at:
http://www.33rdfoot.org/KnapsackPattern.pdf
And instructions on construction at:
http://www.33rdfoot.org/knapsacks.html
http://www.33rdfoot.org/KnapsackPattern.pdf
And instructions on construction at:
http://www.33rdfoot.org/knapsacks.html
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