I made a new 30 liter ruck that weighs 25 ounces on the electronic post office scale at the post office with a Roll top closer that is able to extend 8 inches if you need more room. A tapered waterproof zippered front pocket like golite jam series of packs.
The pack is made out 420 ripstop fabric color slate from rocky wood is only $7.99 a yard. I have been experimenting with different fabrics for packs the 420 ripstop has a heavy polyurethane coating. I really like this fabric for being tough it's a great fabric for the MYOG person on budget who can't afford the real expensive advanced fabric and is not that heavy and you don't need to treat it with kid gloves like the lighter weight fabric packs.
I used 5/8 inch webbing pull down roll top and side compression and ITW/Nexus Jet series of hardware.I used the same Jandd Cloud 9 shoulder strap system I like to use on my packs.
Thanks for looking,
Terry
PS: I decided to add some ruff drawing of the patterns I used for this pack. I used a flexible ruler to dry the side profile.
The pattern for the Jam style pocket show what shape it needs to be to get the contoured shape the line trough the upper half you cut in half sew the zipper. At it wide point it is 15 inches wide and it also is 16 inches tall .
The side pocket pattern show how long and wide you need to make the fabric to make a folded side pocket that will accept a 1 liter water bottle or two 1 liter platys in each pocket. After you fold and sew the draw string for this pocket over it will be 13 inches tall. When sewing the side pocket to the side sew each side of the pocket fold in the pocket 2 inches in on each side . Then pin to the side panel and sew to pack sides, Then trim away excess fabric to the shape of the contoured pack side panel.
I made my pack 10,5 inches wide but you can decide the width you want your pack. I always use a 1/2 inch margin then for sewing then cut it down to 3/8 inch after i sew it to cut some weight off.
Have fun sewing,
Terry
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Rockywoods 420 nylon ripstop fabric link:
http://www.rockywoods.com/Fabrics-Kits/All-Ripstop-Nylon-Fabrics/Ripstop-Packcloth-Nylon
