The belt pouch finished, sprouts new ideas

[liadethornegge]

This thing looks wierd. I don't know why or how exactly, but it seems a bit large. The spacer was probably too wide. And I probably should have curved in the top edges of the back and front pieces a little bit.

The closing is simple three slits through which I've threaded a strip of leather up and then back down again to lock it. I wanted it as simple as possible so I don't need another piece to lock it. It's still fairly simple to open up. In the picture you see it filled with my wallet and change-purse. My camera is so nift that I can take pictures of myself from a distance, but it does not do the magic trick of taking a picture of itself from a distance. so I had to put something else in the pouch. Not entirely sure if I'd trust this pouch with my money or camera yet though. I'll have to bring it along and do a test-drive, see how it handles. Also, my contact adhesive works on leather. Right now the closure mechanism is all just glued in place, no stitching. The strap is glued across the width of the bottom spacer strip, and the tongue with slits in is glued to the figure-cut lid flappy bit. (Just stop me when I get too technical, eh :P)

Of course, with this leather being as easily manipulated as it has been it's given me ideas of making shoes now. I could make soft-soled ones, and then just glue on a thicker sole. I could totally do it too. It would probably be easier to do it when I'm up north visiting the parents as my father has, again, all the tools anyone could ever want which includes lots of leatherworking gadgets. Actually he had so much that when I got my own tool-box when I moved out that I got my very own leather hole-punch amongst many other things. We didn't have to buy very many tools new for my box at all. He just cleared out some of his middle-range ones, marked them all with my soc. sec. no. and tossed them in the box we bought, similarly marked.

Whilie waiting for the glue to set I also started anew pondering pavillion options. I really, really like my friend Melinda's tent which she brought with her on a few events when I was visiting An Tir. It's a sturdy construction, and from the outside can look remarkably like a centrepole-&-spoke-tent. Just need to steep up the angle of the roof compared to Melinda's model... Must investigate.

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ETA: Good thing about Melinda's construction is there is nothing in the way between myself and the roof canvas. In a hub/spoke construction there are these sticks going at just over head-height to push out the walls. In order for the tent not to be silly they really do need to be above head-height for the occupant (ie me) and I'm about 1.80 metres tall, I'd probably want the spokes to be no lower than 2 metres off the ground. Especially for getting dressed and undressed you really want space in which to flail around. (I haven't yet found a way to be lady-like about it if I am dressing myself, so on I flail). Terafan's Pavilino has the hub at 7 feet, which would be good I suppose.

Comments

[oldergoddess.livejournal.com]

nice pouch :) I have always like Melindas tent too, good design and easy to put up and take down. The only thing would be getting the frame correct, good luck :)

[linuxwitch.livejournal.com]

What kind of tent is it? Can you tell more about the internal construction?

structure of a tent

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Argh.. I wrote a reply, and put it under my own post, not your comment... here's the link to it:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/liadethornegge/119966.html?thread=198046#t198046

Internal structure of Melinda's tent

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

(http://swein.campus.luth.se/gallery/scacrafts/melinda_tent)It's a home-brew from what I remember. The internal frame is made up of 2x2s of certain lenghts, at either end of all pieces of wood a ring has been screwed into it. Like a screw in hook, but they're full circles, not just hooks. These rings are joined together with short chains to form the pattern shown in the picture here. The greyish lines underneath the roof are there to show that it's a 3d image. All edges are laid out flat on the ground, except for the roof which is elevated. How much depends on how much of an angle you'd want. Melinda's tent has a fairly flat roof.

It's octagonal, as you can see, and the idea is that the entire thing is assembled as shown, then the roof is laid ontop and then you lift the entire thing up, one edge at a time to stand the 'legs' down on the ground. Nifty thing about the chains joining the legs is you can have a hooked tent-stake and drive it down exactly where the tent-poles hit the ground, hook it over one of the chainlinks and it'll be secured to the ground and nobody has any lines to trip over.

Anyway, once all seven edges are lifted, one left legless as a door for obvious reasons, Melinda then has two wall panels which she buttons onto the horizontal edges. There's an overlap at the back, and at the front she can unbutton or push the door to the side. Voila. Sturdy construction, no centre-pole, no tent-lines to trip over. Making the frame is dead easy.

In Melinda's case, she never disassembles the leg pairs. But the roof timber and the horizontal edges are all unhooked at tear-down.

Hope that made sense.

Re: Internal structure of Melinda's tent

[linuxwitch.livejournal.com]

oy vey! I think I'll stick to a Norse A-Frame! ;D

It's pretty cool, though ... maybe someday I'll see it in my travels of An Tir.