theoctagon
Thru Hiker
Given I already own the finest cuben fiber shelter ever made I guess the biggest question is why? I've always wanted to have a go at a MYOG shaped tarp/mid type shelter so I thought I'd finally have a go.
I decided to make a slightly tweaked version of the Zpacks Hexamid as the design features very few panels/seams/cat-cuts etc etc to contend with, it also uses a lot less cuben (£) than the full mid I've got in mind. There's a few things I'd change if I was to make another, for one its a bit overbuilt for what will be used as a fair weather tarp but i'm pretty pleased with how well it's turned out, especially for a first attempt
The main body of the tarp is made from Olive 17.4 g/m² cuben fiber whilst the peak and tie outs are reinforced with 99 g/m² cuben hybrid material (in a lovely shade of Orange - Cheers @paul ). As I was using the 17.4 g/m² weight cuben I wanted to avoid sewing the fabric as much as possible so the tarp is fully bonded except for the tie outs which are sewn to the tarp using a short length of webbing.
The perimeter tie outs feature a lineloc 3 adjuster and the front tie out has some plastic hardware to attach the front guy to. There's a short loop on the inside of the peak to attach an inner to should I decide to use one. It pitches using 6 pegs with a single pole adjusted to around 120cm. I used 25mm wide bonding tape throughout with all the seams being bonded and then over-taped. I'm aware some of the methods I've used may be considered not to be the strongest but I decided to use methods that were familiar to me from previous MYOG projects.
Materials wise I used approx 4m of the lightweight Cuben, a narrow strip of Hybrid Cuben approx 60x25cm (kindly donated by @paul ), probably less than half a roll of 25mm wide bonding tape, 5 lineloc 3 adjusters, one other piece of plastic hardware, approx 50cm of grosgrain plus the lines. I've not added up the cost as I already had the lines, tape, adjusters, grosgrain, thread etc but if I'd needed to buy everything in then I'd estimate the total cost would have been around £160?
It's not had it's final weigh in yet but Tarp + stuff sack comes to 170g on my scales
I decided to make a slightly tweaked version of the Zpacks Hexamid as the design features very few panels/seams/cat-cuts etc etc to contend with, it also uses a lot less cuben (£) than the full mid I've got in mind. There's a few things I'd change if I was to make another, for one its a bit overbuilt for what will be used as a fair weather tarp but i'm pretty pleased with how well it's turned out, especially for a first attempt
The main body of the tarp is made from Olive 17.4 g/m² cuben fiber whilst the peak and tie outs are reinforced with 99 g/m² cuben hybrid material (in a lovely shade of Orange - Cheers @paul ). As I was using the 17.4 g/m² weight cuben I wanted to avoid sewing the fabric as much as possible so the tarp is fully bonded except for the tie outs which are sewn to the tarp using a short length of webbing.
The perimeter tie outs feature a lineloc 3 adjuster and the front tie out has some plastic hardware to attach the front guy to. There's a short loop on the inside of the peak to attach an inner to should I decide to use one. It pitches using 6 pegs with a single pole adjusted to around 120cm. I used 25mm wide bonding tape throughout with all the seams being bonded and then over-taped. I'm aware some of the methods I've used may be considered not to be the strongest but I decided to use methods that were familiar to me from previous MYOG projects.
Materials wise I used approx 4m of the lightweight Cuben, a narrow strip of Hybrid Cuben approx 60x25cm (kindly donated by @paul ), probably less than half a roll of 25mm wide bonding tape, 5 lineloc 3 adjusters, one other piece of plastic hardware, approx 50cm of grosgrain plus the lines. I've not added up the cost as I already had the lines, tape, adjusters, grosgrain, thread etc but if I'd needed to buy everything in then I'd estimate the total cost would have been around £160?
It's not had it's final weigh in yet but Tarp + stuff sack comes to 170g on my scales
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