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Project complete ✅
 
Finished the last bag of 2 to contain all my sustenance for an upcoming bike trip. Food on top and water system with tube on the bottom. Will be great to keep the heaviest stuff central and low on the bike. 

Let’s gooo! Super excited to get this filled and battle tested.

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Biggest challenge was my sewing machine and getting good stitches without a ton of power, little clearance, and lots of variance in thickness of material. 4 layers of cordura is tough enough but adding webbing every few inches made sewing really difficult. I struggled a lot with getting good stitches on the back. Often the tension would drop and the thread would pill and knot on the side opposite the ‘foot’ and I’d pull it out and try again. I think that was just tough for machine to get right with thick, varying material and heavy duty polyester thread that doesn’t stretch much. 

Biggest takeaway is that I should have gone lighter on the internal panel reinforcement. Made it tough to construct and flip inside out. 

End result is far better than I expected. Very pleased. So nice to sew something inside out and just flip and have it hide the hard parts.

turned out so good dude! this is an awesome build, perfect fit, great color, zippers horizontal on the frame 🤌 

also that's an interesting setup with the bladder in the bottom and the hose clip on the top. can tell you really thought this out lol

what was the most difficult part?

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Do it! I made a small seat bag with the same material, before these. It’s really not too complicated. You start with a full size drawing, make each of the sides, then sew them together along the edges, inside out. To finish, flip it through one of the open zips. The format hides any poor sewing pretty well, actually.

I used a standard sewing machine but you could hand stitch, would just take more time.

have you made something like before? it's amazing - I want to be able to do this!!!!