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    Nancy Twilley
    Member

    @goodcaver2

    Locale: STL

    Since we've been snow and ice bound here all day, I had a chance to finish up my first MYOG pack. It's a pretty basic design — four panels + bottom out of lime green X-Pac + a 9 inch purple silnylon collar. I used some 1 inch purple nylon webbing, black 1 inch nylon webbing for accents, and 1.5 inch for a beefier waistbelt. Altogether, it came out pretty loud!
    pack side

    The waistbelt is padded using pieces cut from a Z-lite pad I shortened to torso length. The shoulder straps are padded using 1/4 inch EVA foam kindly provided to me by a BPL member.
    waistbelt

    The white mesh is from an old running shirt I bought at a second-hand store. Very stretchy and seems durable, but will probably pick up the dirt. The bottoms of the side pockets are made of some extra gore-tex I had hanging around.
    pack
    pockets

    The final weight is 15.2 ounces, although I will probably add a sternum strap which will bump it up to a pound or so. I weighed the pieces for the pack body (just sides and bottom of X-Pac) which weighed only 4 ounces. The entire waistbelt weighed 3 ounces. Forgot to weigh the shoulder straps!

    Dimensions are 11 x 6.5 x 30 inches, which is roughly comparable to a ULA CDT or MLD Prophet. It's frameless right now, since I've wanted to try a frameless pack, and I have my Z-lite flat against the back panel, which seems to be supporting the load well.pack backme pack

    The toughest part of making this pack was the shoulder straps–I sewed them together and turned them inside out, then had a devil of a time getting the padding down into them. Avoid this if at all possible! My sewing machine is also a tiny thing — actually a travel-sized machine — so it won't even sew through two layers of webbing. Had to do more of it by hand than I wanted to, but that's alright.

    The best part is that the pack fits me like a glove.

    Happy Gear making!

    #1691104
    Ken Helwig
    BPL Member

    @kennyhel77

    Locale: Scotts Valley CA via San Jose, CA

    Great job!! How much does it weigh and what is the volume???

    #1691118
    Jerry Adams
    BPL Member

    @retiredjerry

    Locale: Oregon and Washington

    Nice job, looks good

    I agree, shoulder straps are difficult

    #1691146
    Christopher Zimmer
    BPL Member

    @czimmer

    Locale: Ohio

    Nice job Nancy! I like the purple straps with the kiwi green xpac kinda reminds me of the joker.

    #1691168
    Blake Lytle
    BPL Member

    @cirrusbl

    Locale: Upstate South Carolina

    Pack looks awesome – I love the bright colors. Nice work!

    #1691170
    BlackHatGuy
    Spectator

    @sleeping

    Locale: The Cascades

    Super job Nancy! Love the colors!

    #1691173
    Nancy Twilley
    Member

    @goodcaver2

    Locale: STL

    Glad people seem to like the "joker" scheme. Not for everyone, I am sure …


    @Ken
    : volume is like 2100 cubic inches + pockets, and weight right now is 15.2 ounces

    #1691256
    Jared Dilg
    BPL Member

    @village

    Locale: Texas

    Looks great! I dig the loud colors too.

    There's a trick to feeding foam into shoulder strap tubes. Get two metal yardsticks and sandwich the foam in between them. Shove the whole thing into your shoulder straps and pull out one yardstick at a time. Metal yardsticks are also great for turning your straps right-side-out, and for finessing the wrinkles out of the seams at the ends.

    #1691309
    James Marco
    BPL Member

    @jamesdmarco

    Locale: Finger Lakes

    Loud colors? Who cares? The bears certainly don't mind tearing loud colors.

    Looks good. I think I would have sized the whole pack an inch longer as it sits on your back. But, that's me. You may just prefer the higher COG.

    Looks real good. I wish I could do as well.

    #1691335
    Martha S.
    Member

    @kitfox

    Bee-ootiful.

    #1691557
    Jerry Wick
    BPL Member

    @jerryw

    Locale: Illinois

    Looks good. I like the green/purple color combination, kinda 70's style. I'm working on my own "loud" pack right now – using the orange XPac.

    #1692899
    Michael Biondo
    BPL Member

    @mikebiondo

    Locale: Missouri Ozarks

    Where are you folks currently ordering your XPac? Any good deals currently out there?

    Thanks!

    Mike-

    #1693110
    Karen Kennedy
    BPL Member

    @karenk

    Locale: NE NSW - Australian subtropics

    Great job Nancy, that purple webbing is sensational! I've got some sitting around (some rainbow webbing too) so I should get busy and be creative with it!
    Well done.

    KK

    #1693114
    Roger Caffin
    BPL Member

    @rcaffin

    Locale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe

    Hi Mike

    You can buy X-Pac direct from Dimension Polyant. They have a small order facility.

    Cheers

    #1693115
    Nancy Twilley
    Member

    @goodcaver2

    Locale: STL

    Heyyy you guys are so nice.

    I got my X-pac from Rockywoods. Don't know any other place you can get it really but there probably is one! I realize that picture makes it look like the pack is too short for me, but there's no weight in it there just pillows– when it's weighted it rides a little lower. Added to the fact that I have like no torso whatsoever, and yeah. I think it will work. Taking it out for a test drive overnight trip this week. I'm also really surprised what a great "frame" a folded z-lite pad makes.

    Rainbow webbing! The tree straps for my hammock are blue camo. Rainbow would also be awesome though… I have come very, very close to buying it at Hancocks several times …

    #1693374
    Karen Kennedy
    BPL Member

    @karenk

    Locale: NE NSW - Australian subtropics

    Yep UL or not it's so cool I'll just have to use some soon on real adult gear. I made a tiny pack for a 2 yo for Christmas (the one in my avatar) and I used the rainbow webbing for straps. I think the straps weighed as much as the rest of the pack but at 2 I'm sure she's not an UL snob yet!

    Go grrl!!

    KK

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