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Step 15Final Thoughts
Some will fear at this point that I haven't told them everything they need to know about making a tent. All I can say is that it's very simple and logical. If you can make a little paper model tent, you can make a real tent. Sewing for utility is easy. Sewing well comes with practice. You're not making dress shirts or anything, so just be willing to accept anomalies, odd colors, inexplicable and ugly seams and you'll be fine.
Look at what a new tent costs--way too much, like all outdoor gear. Once I finished the tent I branched out into dry bags, backpacks, stuff sacks, a sweet, high impact-resistant camera bag, all sorts of stuff.
Look at what a new tent costs--way too much, like all outdoor gear. Once I finished the tent I branched out into dry bags, backpacks, stuff sacks, a sweet, high impact-resistant camera bag, all sorts of stuff.
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From the description sounds like he's making his own silicone paint with the mineral spirits as the solvent vehicle.
Spray it on, the spirits evaporate leaving behind silicone impregnated cloth.
Clever
Great job on making something so usable. Might do this myself.
I commend you on your spelling as well....rarely do I read an 'ible that has so few spelling errors. It made my reading very pleasurable. Your attention to detail in making your tent AND delivering your instructable is greatly appreciated!
You have surpassed any recommendations about tailoring and manufacturing of tent with a canopy!
You are an inspiration to us all my friend.
I also find myself disillusioned with the Romance of the Tarp. Bugs and animals crawl on your face at night, and I don't feel protected against monsters and Satan the way I do in a nice, enclosed, candle-lit tent. *
Surely there's a comfortable mean between super-equipped 1960s Man Scout-style camping (canvas everything, Axe-n-saw for erecting a semi-permanant cabin, chairs, table, spruce-bough bed, etc. from the abundant "saplings" that are always supposed to be around in an inexhaustable supply), and the self-sacrificially-macho Ultralight thing where you "Toughen Up" and swing superiorly down the trail like Tarzan wearing nothing but a loincloth made out of beef jerky that supposedly doubles as raingear, tent, first aid kit, and food source. A nice lean-to for example.
I think I put the weight down here somewhere, but offhand, I think it was 4.4lbs.
And yeah--a brand name doesn't gaurantee anything one way or the other.
*Note to the over-helpful reader who is now itching to assert his greater knowledge and experience and importance in the world of manly pursuits by chiding me for using a candle in a tent: save it please.