Gear Making! Thread for do it yourself-ers...

[studdermonkey]

Hey.. I just made a plate carrier too! Just.. the cummerbunds.. I'm so tired of sewing right now.

Pictures without cummerbund. The cummerbund will pretty much be exactly like the Ciras, four rows.. one piece folded over, etc. But, no cover, so you can mount more without extending from the cover to the cummerbund. That'll come tomorrow.













Let me edit to add: There was not one screwup in sewing on this one. I measured like, 100 times on everything. I think it turned out nice. It might be the first rig that someone besides me likes!  

[gixser13]

Both look kickass, Great jobs guys

[Farslayer]

OMG those rock...gj studder, i didn't even know you made your one.

great job X2.

[studdermonkey]

Thanks.

Here's an example of how it attatches without cummerbund, don't pay attention to the open cover in back, I was adjusting it. But, replace the D-rings with repair fastex buckes, two on each side, and you get the idea:




David, how does your cummerbund attatch? I see a 4" 'X' sewing on the back. Does that mean velcro plays a part?

[Ganef]

This is how the cummerbund adjusts, with opposing triglides. Once the wearer has it set the whole thing can be run through a tunnel in the rear of the rig. There is a 4X6" velcro panel with hook and loop that sticks through the hole made by the adjoining cummerbund pieces and keeps the whole thing from sliding from side to side.

[studdermonkey]

Ok, cummerbund! Adjusted too big for me, but I'm in one hell of a rush.





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[Ganef]

I learned a ton a the shot show. Here is a molle belt i cranked out for a customer before I left.

[TimW]

David

That's one of the first MOLLE belts I've seen that had suspension attachments standard.  I bet you spent most of your time at Eagle's, BPG and other similar booths.

Sorry I didn't call...as you understand, now, I was a bit preoccupied.

[Ganef]

I spent a considerable amount of time both days messing around with eagles stuff. I was a bit dissapointed that they did not have more of the newer stuff to mess with (bandoller, police ciras, mag pouches with kydex inserts etc...). I did spend a lot of time with the people from kifaru learning about their stuff. But this conversation about the shot show would take hours to tell all.

The customer requested those attachments and the feedback has been positive on them, I asked if he wanted any attachment points for drop downs but he said no.

[TimW]

They DID have the Police CIRAS.  It was the black one on the East side of the booth.  I have about 6 on order, mostly in Ranger Green, and a couple in Black. Though they aren't making them in Khaki yet, I (hopefully..if they remember) placed a pre-order for them.

Basically, it's the Marine CIRAS without the release mechanism.

[Vince]

Tim, allow me to interject - I believe David means a higher quantity of the new stuff. I was standing at the LE CIRAS with him, fingerbanging it and the kydex mag pouch inserts and other good stuff.

[Ganef]

That is what I was saying, at the blackwater exhibit they had duplicates of everything in every color so more guys could mess with them instead of waiting for some distributor to move away from looking at the flash bang pouch so we could look at the kydex instert open top pouch. I saw the police CIRAS and again they should have had more than just one out for us to handle (I beleve there was one on the manaquin, but we could not do anything but look at it). They also had a lot of stuff that confused me as to why it was there and what it was.

Vince both my glock ranger plates cracked when i installed them last night, I think they were factory blems, or at least I hope they were factory blems.

[TimW]

David,

Shoot me an email about the Glock plates and I'll forward to my rep.  Include pics if you can and how/what happened.

As for Eagle, well, some of the stuff there is made only for certain .mil units. Thus, some of the items are avaialble for mortals like us.  

As for the amount of stuff, well, remember that Eagle's bread-and-butter is the .mil market and civilian/commercial sales are secondary.  Blackwater gear is the opposite. Thus, BWG is more attuned to getting folks like me to sign up.  Also, BWG has the 'power' and sales-prowess of Michael's of Oregon behind them, vs. the gear-guys at Eagle who are salesmen second.  Make sense?

[gixser13]

One of Davids( Ganef)Kittens



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[Firehead]

Totally awesome, seriously.