tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60868345549614047002024-03-05T01:16:35.908-05:00ExplorimentDesign and the activities that inspire it.Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.comBlogger4701125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-37599698212972642272021-07-05T16:52:00.000-04:002021-07-05T16:52:13.771-04:00Poutch<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It’s a patch that’s a pouch.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiozvz6GHPPbRfoue-vzkSgNBTjQRpvK-9RO2z0fq9eDJ5btWxe0lSynOopV9aXl1OC3inAHqfVFMzC2VWmFQ9R5-sTFo75JpJoveMAH0hyoGLm3oHoyAHhaNT196c9OQlfkt1SzpqNlhHw/s2048/20210105_150918%257E2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1594" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiozvz6GHPPbRfoue-vzkSgNBTjQRpvK-9RO2z0fq9eDJ5btWxe0lSynOopV9aXl1OC3inAHqfVFMzC2VWmFQ9R5-sTFo75JpJoveMAH0hyoGLm3oHoyAHhaNT196c9OQlfkt1SzpqNlhHw/s320/20210105_150918%257E2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijECy-FZTrv7d-V1vPrngNIYnk_CHk1HJrudJF-1c3sHEUFYkeQKNwVXnUWa6l352uB-K1EYaxCCdJxQhQCVlD8S3UhKq2SmfjtYt-7TF5hyZzyaeWFIx3TgzlZaAbivnymvEA-yAGoT-e/s2048/20210105_151043%257E2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1491" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijECy-FZTrv7d-V1vPrngNIYnk_CHk1HJrudJF-1c3sHEUFYkeQKNwVXnUWa6l352uB-K1EYaxCCdJxQhQCVlD8S3UhKq2SmfjtYt-7TF5hyZzyaeWFIx3TgzlZaAbivnymvEA-yAGoT-e/s320/20210105_151043%257E2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_BqTP7HdAITG8ZuG0Q35mG8BHInnSV2MmVevNSOYpSOu8vN-BfH9rHetUJUzZ2DkNDe5ULhdMboO8iGgIKNvwcI_T9D25IJa-EYLWaWUUaPfXak6PRpe_2qYYXiBDtae-O5pK6q-p0USC/s2048/20210105_153719%257E2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1436" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_BqTP7HdAITG8ZuG0Q35mG8BHInnSV2MmVevNSOYpSOu8vN-BfH9rHetUJUzZ2DkNDe5ULhdMboO8iGgIKNvwcI_T9D25IJa-EYLWaWUUaPfXak6PRpe_2qYYXiBDtae-O5pK6q-p0USC/s320/20210105_153719%257E2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What on the face of it looks like a patch of my logo, is also a pouch that holds a knife, a flashlight and a ferrocerium rod.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://flashlight.nitecore.com/product/ntk05" target="_blank">NiteCore NTK05</a>, <a href="https://www.tecaccessories.com/products/pixel-ti-keychain-flashlight" target="_blank">TEC Accessories Pixel</a>, and <a href="http://bcbinusa.com/product/ranger-fire-flint-on-chain/" target="_blank">BCB Ranger Fire Lighter</a> (the holder removed, and with a piece of cut down hacksaw blade as a striker).</span></p>Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-76042184945224650902021-07-05T16:18:00.004-04:002021-07-05T16:28:35.078-04:00Patchery: Spy vs. Spy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbpGXWui6WFPktqc2fjS9_Igw9I6SW4qu3R5mG5-8jPrXpT3o4Ei-6JDmjNN5faijeTK5eAfEyU6SYs9imy599fOXiLv9T8EwNrsMFXSDjwO_XM9tcWSHf0-rKU9TZKlLDZh8FKwtsHLC6/s2048/SpyvsSpy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1461" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbpGXWui6WFPktqc2fjS9_Igw9I6SW4qu3R5mG5-8jPrXpT3o4Ei-6JDmjNN5faijeTK5eAfEyU6SYs9imy599fOXiLv9T8EwNrsMFXSDjwO_XM9tcWSHf0-rKU9TZKlLDZh8FKwtsHLC6/s320/SpyvsSpy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-64580928745790490742021-07-05T16:13:00.001-04:002021-07-05T16:19:45.619-04:00Patchery: Viewmaster Viewer<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKFrpl9FJgJN9ej1OrExkcOoSd5CoLiFshKuCLXU84LqfuA2LcxHXA084lx3JrqFcKWLPoNZn4Fw9AN7p8VQ3K20UGMOKj0EvSjaK0a1XoJKt7qNzL5-txDWWuFvJFdgM3tjdJKwvhroDb/s800/View-MasterViewerReelSmall.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixHXIeW6n4H5AcCtBa_MDQIm3XBQDxMctttbTQ9mA3TDukbQDXBh4vJ-cPh3SZXXHqwwJCLbOORia49Uvjahc8AjgEDPQmdZ-_TrvhkWHiDvLFiCkxDFC4cB8jGRYGONG-47Cy5weCDbXM/s800/ViewMasterReel2Small.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="779" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixHXIeW6n4H5AcCtBa_MDQIm3XBQDxMctttbTQ9mA3TDukbQDXBh4vJ-cPh3SZXXHqwwJCLbOORia49Uvjahc8AjgEDPQmdZ-_TrvhkWHiDvLFiCkxDFC4cB8jGRYGONG-47Cy5weCDbXM/s320/ViewMasterReel2Small.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwIB_DPBJEWN69pGQcyjbXrtudvsODxZfRZTPB7WDe4L5BPWKek-aKBE9bAmI9n3Gqw7zVVXQKWyuVcaEqOx0oTdOiAjZQXeMtb6GWyMFyZW9JU4zduGLnEfth66rR3TuAG9YjB_fTys3r/s2048/20210212_083802%257E2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1522" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwIB_DPBJEWN69pGQcyjbXrtudvsODxZfRZTPB7WDe4L5BPWKek-aKBE9bAmI9n3Gqw7zVVXQKWyuVcaEqOx0oTdOiAjZQXeMtb6GWyMFyZW9JU4zduGLnEfth66rR3TuAG9YjB_fTys3r/s320/20210212_083802%257E2.jpg" /></a></div></div>Made a View-Master viewer patch - with a twist.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The reel (symmetrically double sided - the colours match from side to side) can be pulled from the top. The viewer itself is is 5 separate pieces sewn together to give a sense of depth. </span></p>Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-21630110603645014882020-10-21T18:06:00.001-04:002020-10-21T18:06:40.614-04:00Patchery: Sun & Moon<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFcYMJodyzNLgYiKJxGffWs3cYOEMm05MWExMq6d0isUqmp0reArIU6ySg9rmbkjo1RjzTqyOeYFUn_PMSUr8JtG9-kgqGuN16xEBgmqfxrGE5kthXyxwKwOCyEV-Ha3nZXlTgcyE1llIh/s800/Sun%2526MoonNewSmall.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFcYMJodyzNLgYiKJxGffWs3cYOEMm05MWExMq6d0isUqmp0reArIU6ySg9rmbkjo1RjzTqyOeYFUn_PMSUr8JtG9-kgqGuN16xEBgmqfxrGE5kthXyxwKwOCyEV-Ha3nZXlTgcyE1llIh/s320/Sun%2526MoonNewSmall.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">When I first got into the whole idea of slapping a patch on a bag or a cap, one of the first ones I got was from a bag of various patches I found at a Michael’s Craft Store. A sun and moon design. It was all yellow, so I painted the moon with a gun metal grey acrylic paint and sewed Velcro on the back..</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Over 15 years it got pretty beat up, so I decided a new one was in order. Redrew it, and made it two separate pieces and sewed them together. 12 colours in total.</span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNf2Jy3eBdT4_F2F6L5hU3HKTeDSkShZvGvPPjzBdaQ7mI8NtvPtA4iCNjTWtH1LZZiwdBb0IYOg4AlZKigZmsT0nb8GJt628YQlxtZh4DhIdxRFAv7iQ454hiTAUWv8paGbgrXclSWm1n/s800/Sun%2526MoonOld%2526NewSmall.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNf2Jy3eBdT4_F2F6L5hU3HKTeDSkShZvGvPPjzBdaQ7mI8NtvPtA4iCNjTWtH1LZZiwdBb0IYOg4AlZKigZmsT0nb8GJt628YQlxtZh4DhIdxRFAv7iQ454hiTAUWv8paGbgrXclSWm1n/s320/Sun%2526MoonOld%2526NewSmall.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-19017035528031828722020-10-21T17:43:00.000-04:002020-10-21T17:43:00.294-04:00Owl’mups<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiElsHV9Yngr626FN9wwUKIb9ML3ndieanvXozxVzuTpONQ7iV5dM7kfWg2NQI6HYgnsMXTVsZGxP7XZa0rCA0X6iC3yeya52r9s5GCRAn1fObFC2zRveuhSAHL21MjX7Iz6ejJW8UTWfcW/s2048/20191030_010524%257E2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1371" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiElsHV9Yngr626FN9wwUKIb9ML3ndieanvXozxVzuTpONQ7iV5dM7kfWg2NQI6HYgnsMXTVsZGxP7XZa0rCA0X6iC3yeya52r9s5GCRAn1fObFC2zRveuhSAHL21MjX7Iz6ejJW8UTWfcW/w268-h400/20191030_010524%257E2.jpg" width="268" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Got a <a href="https://www.schrade.com/knives/schrade-pocket-moneycard-clip-full-tang-fixed-blade-knife/SCHCC1.html" target="_blank">Schrade Credit Card Knife</a>. Decent sheath for a production knife, but I decided to have some fun and make a new sheath. <br /><br />And what emerged was the Owl’mups, the world’s first embroidered Great Horned Owl neck knife sheath.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtQrpsnmaji92HLKJyiky_f8539tLb4K9STaP3iR9xxikRhM4tQgV_FaJs-SKoIb_bSU9P_QRpoOER3DZM2fJxjX9Bj0MChsPF8uqRpxnZNZoiUzMfT8TZKmFhgOUYvccF5RKpy7ODBnel/s2048/20190616_143110.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1410" data-original-width="2048" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtQrpsnmaji92HLKJyiky_f8539tLb4K9STaP3iR9xxikRhM4tQgV_FaJs-SKoIb_bSU9P_QRpoOER3DZM2fJxjX9Bj0MChsPF8uqRpxnZNZoiUzMfT8TZKmFhgOUYvccF5RKpy7ODBnel/w400-h275/20190616_143110.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1503" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVqf206Qqw7M6LaqkuJ7yq5UZQ_68jZGG8Bym5ZsKfVXogLJZj_VEKRRMxFb-QPBdSt2K65gvYrlWkvdU5edoC1jFEw9Vr2rcNUtII4Ofm0bG4BFN4qmZ7VojcN9bVwB2x12-t3IvMgqiE/w294-h400/20190616_191608.jpg" width="294" /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5j4nf8zbbLdvTWcpOt7SHO6YvbVe8ZEsGwXfOvwebHnwBGTHdlCxAc7nAK5ARJIlOVrpEUfqdmsGAbeQ7bQHX47IzyWg1SxnjOil-IuHdZnShnLvlaQf2E4mXwP7uAkJHdEPx3Ne9Dq9t/s2048/20190616_173058.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1318" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5j4nf8zbbLdvTWcpOt7SHO6YvbVe8ZEsGwXfOvwebHnwBGTHdlCxAc7nAK5ARJIlOVrpEUfqdmsGAbeQ7bQHX47IzyWg1SxnjOil-IuHdZnShnLvlaQf2E4mXwP7uAkJHdEPx3Ne9Dq9t/w258-h400/20190616_173058.jpg" width="258" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVqf206Qqw7M6LaqkuJ7yq5UZQ_68jZGG8Bym5ZsKfVXogLJZj_VEKRRMxFb-QPBdSt2K65gvYrlWkvdU5edoC1jFEw9Vr2rcNUtII4Ofm0bG4BFN4qmZ7VojcN9bVwB2x12-t3IvMgqiE/s2048/20190616_191608.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJnZo4bbrxi3EcULbNXf3JBQ-RzWuuI9rM6Z0UoPdbojnkc4doXhbPoVZFRJp-qi3SEvRVVJEa0r2tPFTT2tzzdgasLcVG6yyzmeOWvsGqwaujprOmtOgxUblbucfAkSk9TyHVmkBcl0A8/s2048/20190616_192859.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1430" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJnZo4bbrxi3EcULbNXf3JBQ-RzWuuI9rM6Z0UoPdbojnkc4doXhbPoVZFRJp-qi3SEvRVVJEa0r2tPFTT2tzzdgasLcVG6yyzmeOWvsGqwaujprOmtOgxUblbucfAkSk9TyHVmkBcl0A8/w279-h400/20190616_192859.jpg" width="279" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmxytaZ1DMLNb8_kIcybJoWHiP2Na5pMY5NkqmX0tEuVK3JFBwAuRqxV_1Yb7-BQWFH4D_ZkIgfQPDKf0zFY4LUP0pBPPTCI9X9kh-xg9LtUsRM3Vdp9Png7RDAkGwZLAIoGnf3_FVnHBS/s2048/20190616_192854.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1304" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmxytaZ1DMLNb8_kIcybJoWHiP2Na5pMY5NkqmX0tEuVK3JFBwAuRqxV_1Yb7-BQWFH4D_ZkIgfQPDKf0zFY4LUP0pBPPTCI9X9kh-xg9LtUsRM3Vdp9Png7RDAkGwZLAIoGnf3_FVnHBS/w255-h400/20190616_192854.jpg" width="255" /></a></span></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">First came a leather sheath for the knife to sit in. It’s not pretty, but it won’t be seen.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiExQolZGW9ibBeA6eiV5jPZTgDvkRpJpGHgbBzLGRTHdsZHfz2InJnrbDEzu9oV6R2-XGV9thsLDZiPKYMRvmFexhYAyuLJwMIzsYkGevRNDZ0YEzABJoiANeV5zvxA6RgE8zV-8neZ230/s2048/20190708_214549%257E2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1563" data-original-width="2048" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiExQolZGW9ibBeA6eiV5jPZTgDvkRpJpGHgbBzLGRTHdsZHfz2InJnrbDEzu9oV6R2-XGV9thsLDZiPKYMRvmFexhYAyuLJwMIzsYkGevRNDZ0YEzABJoiANeV5zvxA6RgE8zV-8neZ230/w400-h305/20190708_214549%257E2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh97vfex36aByNcMpCGoytMlYewtuzH9POFxaIXt9KA36KIeZu2dBXpCDrBaQkIryZdatEcMyhHZFg29xZTbCKeOXFRqgF7KcC5MNzECxHVNi6mahPsLAoxQKlpGNHtlM8SMNZPr0PPvFPI/s2670/20190708_214608%257E2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1177" data-original-width="2670" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh97vfex36aByNcMpCGoytMlYewtuzH9POFxaIXt9KA36KIeZu2dBXpCDrBaQkIryZdatEcMyhHZFg29xZTbCKeOXFRqgF7KcC5MNzECxHVNi6mahPsLAoxQKlpGNHtlM8SMNZPr0PPvFPI/w400-h176/20190708_214608%257E2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5W-60mYyaE5vz_ANESJYBb5YXAlaX1u0_7QSYCLY-M64c-itcNOFnS86YGuQX4sKnl1k8mH0RDkzmJN32tngiD44zUxeUxUVV1RjlEv3vXOl2onS-sK5LkGgyB6yZUMwee0pljnJlR7Y4/s2048/20190708_214627%257E2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1781" data-original-width="2048" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5W-60mYyaE5vz_ANESJYBb5YXAlaX1u0_7QSYCLY-M64c-itcNOFnS86YGuQX4sKnl1k8mH0RDkzmJN32tngiD44zUxeUxUVV1RjlEv3vXOl2onS-sK5LkGgyB6yZUMwee0pljnJlR7Y4/w400-h348/20190708_214627%257E2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The head was made up of four separate pieces. The edges were merrowed by hand to hide them.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoE9vOBFm2sloAivWkxKzLN_5DbcmgcwNhqoxIadGRTr9MtXalbt_9k_BW1NNvy7uCPRE4p5LyQ3_jrxJqGFqU71-MBXBK_owwYacDO4HNYfRl6LPNUyCui_nLb5aBsToyXyVCW6jZ7p1u/s2048/20190713_173952%257E2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1101" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoE9vOBFm2sloAivWkxKzLN_5DbcmgcwNhqoxIadGRTr9MtXalbt_9k_BW1NNvy7uCPRE4p5LyQ3_jrxJqGFqU71-MBXBK_owwYacDO4HNYfRl6LPNUyCui_nLb5aBsToyXyVCW6jZ7p1u/w215-h400/20190713_173952%257E2.jpg" width="215" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The leather sheath was attached to the back.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ZvsXH4gIiIzHuCryRGRNNjwfYtbvQ0uMHtGql5LJ6GFQIMi0urdvj4VIH2z4D9ycoJm6vDRlZ4XRFw559fLjOuTHI9FSNnmSi4WaeLIKCpCiaafvX97Fzzxn_wh0zwRPtoQY7DnuLhiD/s2048/20190714_111950%257E2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1424" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ZvsXH4gIiIzHuCryRGRNNjwfYtbvQ0uMHtGql5LJ6GFQIMi0urdvj4VIH2z4D9ycoJm6vDRlZ4XRFw559fLjOuTHI9FSNnmSi4WaeLIKCpCiaafvX97Fzzxn_wh0zwRPtoQY7DnuLhiD/w278-h400/20190714_111950%257E2.jpg" width="278" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The head was sewn to the back piece. The front chest was sewn to the back. Then the wings were sewn to both. The wings form a pocket on the back.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1bh-Kkyfo2RS5jyr7GoClsXOdFXu-0mCPAgzmMdMTxAVlyazN00i_t2XG9_OiDGI8yoIV0UMK7qEvGv3eOYtKeUd4jYu01XGK01lJyuuxQzidoQbpobjZqLoN-FB7XZ5E5JBKigU3a6km/s2048/20200814_072218%257E2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1583" data-original-width="2048" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1bh-Kkyfo2RS5jyr7GoClsXOdFXu-0mCPAgzmMdMTxAVlyazN00i_t2XG9_OiDGI8yoIV0UMK7qEvGv3eOYtKeUd4jYu01XGK01lJyuuxQzidoQbpobjZqLoN-FB7XZ5E5JBKigU3a6km/w400-h309/20200814_072218%257E2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAJfSO3ZJMkP0y4I64Etpsh7xvVptDFknvt5-dDi4Hx-dCjkzEsvoGgT7RUEySKzSvEKv6RzqxxRq8j7VeGb34HT_Sf64zLf3FcZQrNJ1iBAZwSv9rFMHbr7FuoB_4MmAOxunnTFxTGaHI/s2048/20200814_072304%257E2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1487" data-original-width="2048" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAJfSO3ZJMkP0y4I64Etpsh7xvVptDFknvt5-dDi4Hx-dCjkzEsvoGgT7RUEySKzSvEKv6RzqxxRq8j7VeGb34HT_Sf64zLf3FcZQrNJ1iBAZwSv9rFMHbr7FuoB_4MmAOxunnTFxTGaHI/w400-h290/20200814_072304%257E2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The head is held in place, and it in turn holds the knife in place by a snap that sits in the center of the finger ring.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p>Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-67542194858424471302018-09-08T10:02:00.000-04:002018-11-04T10:17:45.966-05:00Patchery: Dragon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I generally refuse to take on anything that I’m asked to do. (I’ve been inundated with people asking me to do custom patches for them. Not interested. It’s fun when I do an unbidden one as a gift for a friend, but the “can you make shirts and hats for my entire softball team” questions got to be a little silly. I do this as a fun hobby. I really haven’t the means to do this on a scale other than that.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But a lady at my work has a developmentally challenged son who has a thing for dragons. I made an exception in her case when she asked me. And I’m really pleased with how it turned out.</span></span>Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-47668431359575657562018-08-24T11:16:00.000-04:002018-11-04T10:17:09.751-05:00Patchery: Apple<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Not sure I’m quite as enamored of Apple as I was 30 years ago, but their computers have played an important role in my life for that whole time.</span></span>Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-16639847682678897742018-02-03T15:49:00.000-05:002018-11-04T10:08:58.086-05:00Patchery pt. 2<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i>(For part 1, look <a href="http://exploriment.blogspot.ca/2017/03/patchery.html" target="_blank">here</a>.)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I stopped making patches for a while, because I was busy doing other things, and it started to frustrate me a bit too much. Mainly the interchange between my Illustrator file and what the embroidery software spat out. All sorts of oddities were generated, and trying to correct them was just too time consuming.<br /><br />Took it up again a few weeks ago. I still get some weirdness occasionally when I convert to an embroidery file. But I’ve learned some ways to work around it. I also try to forego filling an entire background with embroidery, rather letting the background show through. I’ve also realized the old tattoo adage of “bold will hold” is a good one to follow. I generally do pretty iconic images, and try to avoid cutting out really complex shapes. I’ve also learned that a file for printing and a file for embroidery are two very different things. I’m still just using scraps of 420D nylon. Not sure if that’s the recommended material, but I have loads of it, and it seems to work okay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros" target="_blank">Ourobouros</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Canoehead, or more properly, the portage sign. I still don’t have the means of merrowing the edge, so I still cheat by doing a satin line around the edge, cut very close, singe then ends with a lighter, and then colour the edge with a marker or acrylic paint. Adapt. Improvise. Overcome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Death’s Head Moth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">A name tape for myself, using one of my typeface designs. (Which I realized I did 25 years ago. Yikes. Where does the time go?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And my logo as a patch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Here you can see looping stitches that occur some times. I just cut them away and singe them. Not sure what causes it or how to prevent it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Two different apertures. (The top one shows an anomaly that occurs sometimes; the bobbin thread showing through. Nothing a black marker can’t fix though.)<br /><br />This might be a good time to show some of the glitches generated by the embroidery software.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This is what you see when you first convert your file. (This is Janome’s Digitizer software.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Go to “TrueView” and this shows. Huh?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Zoom in. No rhyme or reason for it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">My high tech fix? Flip the image in Illustrator, and it shows up just fine. Huh? Like I said, no rhyme or reason to it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I’ve spent 30 years off and on as a graphic artist and pre-press tech, so I wanted a CMYK crosshairs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Still have to finish the edges. Tatami in the quadrants, satin for the ring and crosshairs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In the yellow quadrant you can see what happens a fair bit on curves. It forms the outer ring by first drawing an outline and then going back and forth over that. For whatever reason, there’s a section that isn’t covered. Don’t know if the embroidery of the four tatami sections changes the tension of the fabric that much, if there is slack in the fabric, if it’s a structural flaw in the embroidery file... Not sure. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Did one with the “Satin” setting (on the left), and one with the “3D Satin” setting (on the right). The first was 4629 stitches, and the other was 13445 stitches.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Predacon logo for a friend. Thought I’d try it with variegated thread.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">A S.T.A.L.K.E.R. PMC faction subdued patch for a friend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Crummy old one I did a few months ago on the right, new and improved one on the left. The old RCAF roundel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Spiraloctotentacle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">As a type dork, one of my favourite characters is the Ampersand. This one is from a <a href="https://houseind.com/" target="_blank">House Industries</a> T-shirt that I wore to destruction. Will probably get another one at some point, but stole the design for a patch for myself. Sorry House.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">An old Mac icon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">First attempt at a Technics turntable patch. Too small, and all the dots on the side of the platter blaed together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Really thick lettering. Not good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Attempt # 2. Larger, and I made the dots and type smaller, to compensate for the bleed that occurs. You can see how much curl there is on the first one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Sigil of Baphomet for a friend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And sorry to all you religious people that I’m making you look at this again, but it demonstrates a point. You can see the colours here do not match the above image in the slightest. The reason I do that is that the screen that comes up on the embroidery machine itself is tiny, and doesn’t give a great representation of the colours. Especially if the colours are in any way similar (two reds and an orange, say), it’s really hard to distinguish between them. Giving them bright, contrasting colours makes it easier to figure out which is which. I can put whatever colour of thread I want on there, and this just makes it a bit easier to figure out on the screen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Some Star Wars patches I made for a friend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It’s true. I do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Another example of the oddball, “why you do that!” things the embroidery software does. Go into Illustrator, flip the image, flip the I ♥ LEGO back, import it again and ... weird fill is gone. Makes no sense.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">On the left is an attempt from about a half year ago. I tried a smaller one 4 up in the hoop and then I tried a larger one 1up in the hoop. I got that misalignment at the top right of the O and the bottom left of the L on both. I managed to cheat and black the area in with a marker, because gosh darnit, I really wanted a Lego patch. Tried it again, this time with some red material rather than trying to fill in a whole background. Much better this time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Some more inexplicable weirdness. I created this file in Illustrator, and yet when I brought it in to Janome’s Designer, it assigned a tatami fill to the L, and satin to the E, G, and O.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Looking closer, you can see that the area behind the L is knocked out, but not for the E, G, and O. Huh? Went in, and I managed to remove that area behind the L so that there was now a solid black and changed the L to be satin as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Wookie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I doubt I’ll ever stop finding the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio" target="_blank">Golden Ratio</a> fascinating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Ryan Adams for a friend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Hard to tell from the photo, but the patch is the same size as my beloved Swiss Army Knife. (A Huntsman I’ve had for 25 years in case you’re curious.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Glock patch for a friend. I’ll make one for myself to antagonize the hippies.</span>Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-10045689356113511222018-01-12T09:54:00.000-05:002018-11-04T09:55:38.621-05:00Patchery: NFB<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Huge part of the Canadian cultural landscape. Fond memories of being a kid fresh in Canada, the lights in the classroom dimming, the whirr of the projector starting up and the magical images projecting across the screen. Classics like Helicopter Canada and Paddle to the Sea (along with other Bill Mason films) helped shape my perceptions of this new to me land. <br /><br />(And as an interesting aside, the name “Boards of Canada” took their name from this very organization. As kids who spent part of their childhood in Canada, they too were very inspired by NFB films.)</span></span>Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-57727556870627986792017-12-25T15:41:00.004-05:002017-12-25T15:41:58.737-05:00Christmas Eve<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px;">Walked to the home of friends last night to celebrate</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px;"> how much cheeses love us. The walk there was magical – no sound but that of snow crunching underfoot, the soft ticking of snow on my hood - and church bells ringing in the distance. And at midnight, it was even more magical. Thoroughly toasted, I wandered around Dundurn Castle and the cemetery for an otherworldly hour.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For thirty years I’ve been clapping gleefully whenever something visual screws up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The blurry, or double exposed, photos Black’s didn’t charge you for. The odd shapes formed at the edges on stat cam prints by the bulbs when you really shrunk something down. Postscript printers deciding it didn’t like your file and spitting out pixelated mayhem. PMT prints that didn’t work and left strange patterns and colour fades. Early monitors that would sometimes show a chopped up version of the file you were working on as you zoomed out, and stay there long enough to get a screenshot of. Images after they’ve been stapled to a phone pole for a half year. Run up sheets from offset presses, with oddly juxtaposed type and images.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I’ve got a huge file of this kind of stuff. Not used so frequently, but when you can find a use for this sort of randomly generated imagery for something, terrific.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Happy accidents I called them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A bunch of years back I was home one morning when a fire truck parked between calls on the quiet cul-de-sac I lived on. Went out to say hi and snap some photos as reference for possibly building a Lego version. (Still haven’t gotten around to it.) Somewhere along transferring them between camera and various storage mediums, the entire folder of images got truncated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">PhotoShop can’t do anything other than show a narrow strip along the top. If PS can’t open it...that’s saying something. Single previews don’t work, but for some inexplicable reason, opening them all at once showed me this riotous collage of strips of stuttering colour. Took screenshots of the expanded screen, because other wise these are inaccessible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“Accident is the greater part of art, not design.” – Aleister Crowley</span><br />
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Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-19653594481669386192017-12-07T22:58:00.000-05:002018-07-10T23:00:07.667-04:00S.o.t.D. - Skinflowers – Young Gods<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkgGCgcvEDY" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Skinflowers – Young Gods</span></span></a>Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-13441522780145365782017-12-07T09:39:00.000-05:002018-11-04T09:45:03.596-05:00Patchery: 4AD<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I
was a huge 4AD fan in my teens. Would buy records sound unheard just
because it was on the label. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The top two were very early efforts. </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Not
perfect. They often aren’t. The white and black one stair stepped a bit
along the top, and the grey and black one had the thread get messed up
in one area. I can fix it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I made them fairly large, because my early experiments seemed to indicate that they needed to be large-ish. After a while I figured out that wasn’t necessarily the case, and I did a much smaller version.</span>Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-35357740671853083262017-12-06T21:55:00.000-05:002018-07-10T22:57:31.594-04:00S.o.t.D. - Sinking – Tripswitch<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=wdtNHVjnyxU" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sinking – Tripswitch</span></span></a>Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-19043953298400709352017-12-05T22:47:00.000-05:002018-07-10T22:49:21.132-04:00S.o.t.D. - Dirtbox – Harmonic 313<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiNKyI9poFE" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Dirtbox – Harmonic 313</span></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sounds like early video game music. Another guise of Mark Pritchard, one half of Global Communication. </span></span>Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-78387314728805566402017-12-04T21:41:00.000-05:002018-07-10T22:44:06.904-04:00S.o.t.D. - It’s Me – Adrian Younge<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tts-b-1Df0" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It’s Me – Adrian Younge</span></span></a>Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-6505888050712750142017-12-03T22:39:00.000-05:002018-07-10T22:41:14.072-04:00S.o.t.D. - The Good Life – Tony Bennett<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU-QExgydz0" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Good Life – Tony Bennett</span></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">What a voice. </span></span>Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-87222218067345240632017-12-03T15:30:00.004-05:002017-12-03T15:30:53.214-05:00Woodlanders<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Woodlanders is a crowd funded online film series that seeks to document the work of people who care for and depend on forests for their livelihood and well-being throughout the world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Definitely worth your time. And your support.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.woodlanders.com/episodes/" target="_blank">Woodlanders</a></span>Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-47730466367879835752017-12-02T19:06:00.000-05:002018-07-02T17:08:16.827-04:00S.o.t.D. - Happy Idiot – TV On The Radio<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaKVy-FlaUA" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Happy Idiot – TV On The Radio</span></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I found this fun enough to Shazam it. </span></span>Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-51543149503342656562017-12-01T19:55:00.000-05:002018-07-02T17:00:10.495-04:00S.o.t.D. - Angels In Dub – Code Blue<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvUdmZqvHVA" target="_blank">Angels In Dub – Code Blue </a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">How could I hear bass and drum lines interwoven like this, with production quality like this, and not fall deeply in love with this whole genre.<br /><br />A frequent Jarkko tune. Usually slowed down.</span></span>Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-75145119545234595092017-11-30T21:50:00.000-05:002018-07-02T16:53:47.063-04:00S.o.t.D. - Ventura Highway – America<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjgCqbPGq2A" target="_blank">Ventura Highway – America</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I referenced this song yesterday, and then discovered to my chagrin that I had never featured America. That needs to be remedied. Of all the yacht rock bands, I think they’re my favourite.</span></span>Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-19011255074300264202017-11-29T19:45:00.000-05:002018-07-02T16:50:47.658-04:00S.o.t.D. - Someone To Call My Lover – Janet Jackson<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWd9IgPktA4" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Someone To Call My Lover – Janet Jackson</span></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perfect road trip song.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That Ventura Highway sample is so perfect. </span></span>Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-64358615719244396452017-11-28T19:13:00.000-05:002018-07-02T16:17:59.252-04:00S.o.t.D. - Disturbed (Kessell Alternative Remix) – Pulse One<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvWqiJSeMuQ" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Disturbed (Kessell Alternative Remix) – Pulse One</span></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Is it too much to ask for one night a week where several hours of this kind of spacey, echoey, but really groovy techno is played?<br /><br />It probably is.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This tempo and sound is so much fun to dance to. </span></span>Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-13603363593091140102017-11-27T20:48:00.000-05:002018-07-02T15:52:02.134-04:00S.o.t.D. - Afternoon Delight – Circle Jerks<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://youtu.be/td0tvln2joA?t=32" target="_blank">Afternoon Delight – Circle Jerks</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Been on a bit of a punk kick the last few days. Quite fun. Saw these guys once, waaay back when. Also quite fun.</span></span>Explorimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178966376119097909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086834554961404700.post-21439621427620150782017-11-27T18:31:00.001-05:002017-12-25T16:40:46.000-05:00Squish’mups<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">My
new compression panel day pack, the
Squish’mups. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">
(And just to give you a sense of the size, I’m 203 cm (6'7") and
113 kg (250 lbs). Yes, I make a 130 lb. Great Dane look small.)</span>
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I’ve tried a few approaches to this idea, and they all fell a bit
short. But I’m certain this will be the solution! I think.
Maybe...</span>
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The idea is to have a detachable day pack that I would have with
me on a two hour hike or a two week canoe trip. There are things
that are necessary for both –what changes usually is insulation,
shelter, food, etc., on longer trips and time of year. I want to
have a way to carry the necessities; water, means to purify it,
first aid kit, rain protection, some insulation, a day of food,
etc.</span><br />
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Besides being able to carry it as a stand alone day pack (with or
without a waist belt, and with a frame sheet, aluminum stays, or
both, or none) or have it attached to a frame (Kifaru or the one
I’ll eventually build), it’ll serve as a compression panel.
Between the Squish’mups and the frame I can carry a no-frills
pack sack (the next thing I’ll make), a duffel bag, a dry bag, a
barrel, a Pelican case, a rifle drag bag, etc., etc.</span>
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The difference between some of my other <a href="http://exploriment.blogspot.ca/2013/07/yakbakdekpak.html" target="_blank">attempts</a>, is to have a pack not very deep,
but wide and tall. Keeping the depth of it down helps prevent the
center of gravity from being put too far out.</span><br />
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The dimensions are 60 cm (23") x 33 cm (13") 10 cm x
(4").</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Using some very complimicalated mathematics*, I derived at a
figure of this being about a 37 liter pack, or approximately
2250 cubic inches. </span><br />
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*( C = W + D x 2 ÷ π ÷ 2 = R</span><br />
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Some of you will automatically recognize that
the belt and the way it’s attached, and really the whole
suspension, is pretty much my take on the Kifaru Omni system.
I’ve been using it for a decade, it works very well - so why
re-invent the wheel as far as that went. Some ideas for the belt
were also nicked from the <a href="https://www.hillpeoplegear.com/Products/CategoryID/3/ProductID/11" target="_blank">Hill People Gear Prairie Belt</a>.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Some closeups of the belt. I changed the Delta Straps a little by
adding removable ladder locks. In Kifaru’s the webbing is sewn
into the belt. I wanted to be able to have this as a stand alone
belt if need be, and wanted to be able to remove them altogether.
(The HPG belt does something similar.) I also added four tabs
along the top so that I could attach suspenders. The other things
I did was attach Eva-Zote foam and spacer mesh to the belt (as
well as two strips along the back) both for padding and -
hopefully - a bit of comfort on hot days.</span><br />
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Another view of the belt with the ladder locks removed and the
suspender tabs more visible. The other thing I did was use a
buckle arrangement similar to the <a href="https://www.hillpeoplegear.com/Products/CategoryID/3/ProductID/11" target="_blank">HPG Prairie Belt</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The back, showing the inside and outside. The 2" straps at the top go all the way to the bottom, and serves as a carry handle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The back, showing the inside and outside. Inside I put 4, ½" strips of webbing on both the front and the back, so that I could hold things in place with bunjee cords and cord locks. Inside is also a slot for an HDPE frame sheet and you can just </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">see the 2" slot pockets for aluminum stays. I can use one or the other, or both, or none.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Bottom. Bit hard to tell, but it’s an irregular hexagon. One
piece of gear that I absolutely wanted to use was my <a href="https://exploriment.blogspot.ca/2010/06/msr-titan-kettle.html" target="_blank">MSR Titan Kettle</a> – which was a bit bigger
than the depth I had envisioned for this. I shaped the pack so
that only the bottom part I would put it in was sized to
accommodate it. The rest tapers away to be as slim as
possible.</span><br />
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Sides showing the water bottle holders (corsets so that any size
bottle can be accommodated), compression straps, and the daisy
chain riding up the sides and over the top. </span><br />
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Top, again showing the daisy chain and the compression straps, as
well as carrying handle (the straps go all the way along the back
to the bottom). </span><br />
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Trekking pole holders on the front. A strip of ½" webbing,
sewn to be 2 channels, with bunjee cord and a cord
lock.</span><br />
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The straps that will attach the compression pack to the
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Closer look at the water bottle holders. I wanted to be able to accommodate different sized bottles if need be. I did the bottom so there is a hinge, to better fit either Kleen Kanteens or the Classic 1 liter Nalgenes. And on the bottom by the seam you can see the two holes I put for the cord to emerge from.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The Kifaru E&E and the Squish’mups side by side. I got the E&E a decade ago for the purpose I outlined earlier. Just found it too small for my needs. I also found the fact that I can only attach it via the sides meant it always sags down.</span><br />
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The </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">½" </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">strips
of webbing and how things are held in place with bunjee cords and cord locks. If it was a top opening pack I could just shove things down inside. Given
that it opens all the way up, I wanted to makes sure everything
stayed put when I opened it.</span>
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To give a description of what’s all here:</span><br />
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Starting top left, <a href="https://exploriment.blogspot.ca/2012/05/mecedcfak.html" target="_blank">first aid kit</a> (I’m going to make one specifically to
fit along the width along the top, and have it be a tear-away),
below that a pouch with some miscellaneous stuff - <a href="https://exploriment.blogspot.ca/2009/10/lighterweight-repair-kit.html" target="_blank">repair kit</a>, <a href="https://exploriment.blogspot.ca/2009/10/toiletry-bottle-labels.html" target="_blank">toiletry kit</a>, headlamp, gaiters.</span><br />
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To the right of that, at the top, an <a href="https://exploriment.blogspot.ca/2010/04/exped-si-cushion-31.html" target="_blank">inflatable seat pad</a>, below that a ground
sheet (foot print from a 1 person MEC tent) below that a bag with
approximately a days worth of food.</span><br />
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To the right of that a bag with a sweater, gloves, socks, toque
and buff, all in merino wool.</span><br />
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To the right of that at the top, a Swiss mesh scarf. About a
meter square, it’s one if those items I could in theory live
without, but it’s so versatile it always comes along and I always
find a use for it. As a scarf, I drape it over or wrap it around
my head when I sleep, I’ve rigged it up as a sun shade, it can
serve as camouflage, collect leaves for a debris shelter, I’ve
strung it up as a place to put gear so it’s off the ground - the
uses are endless. Below that is a cozy that fits a home made
dehydrated meal and inside of it is my trusty <a href="https://exploriment.blogspot.ca/2010/06/msr-titan-kettle.html" target="_blank">MSR Titan kettle</a> and LMF cup with a homemade
stove and wind screen and fuel bottles and lighter. Below that is
an <a href="https://www.canadianoutdoorequipment.com/integral-tactical-5x8-silnylon-poncho.html" target="_blank">Integral Tactical silnylon poncho</a>. Thin and
light, it serves as both wearable rain protection and
shelter.</span><br />
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Anyway, my confident prognostication that this will be THE
solution ... fell a bit short. It’s very close, but not quite. It’s really comfortable, but then again, it’s an Omni suspension, so it would be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">My
biggest gripe is the water bottle carriers. The bunjee cord
adjustment system mainly. The next go round will be attached in
the seam at the bottom, and via SRB at the top, and instead of a
cord lattice, it will be webbing straps adjustable via Velcro. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> The daisy chain up the sides and top will be dispensed with,
since its main purpose was for the bottle cord lattice to weave
through. And my initial thought was maybe use as an attachment point for something. Would rather dispense with the weight. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Also the way the compression straps attach to the pack
itself when not on the main frame, will change. I had attachment
points all the way up the sides, top and bottom. Instead there
will only be tabs specifically for those straps to connect to. Again, unnecessary weight for, maybe I might attach something to it some time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The way the compression webbing attaches will be different as
well. Part of my original design was to have a mesh panel that I
could use to stick a wet rain jacket or tarp under. Then it hit
me. Duh. Why not just use those compression straps for that
purpose. The next iteration will do away with the metal tri-glide
/ loop-loc attachment, have it be one piece and route through
webbing tabs. I can loosen it, stick what I need under it and
cinch it tight. Basically, the <a href="https://store.kifaru.net/cargo-net-p222.aspx" target="_blank">Kifaru Cargo Net</a>. Slightly different, but essentially, as soon as it’s no longer sewn to the pack, that’s what it became.<br />
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Another idea that seemed good at first, but had to actually use
for a while to realize the shortcomings of, are the trekking pole
holders on the front. The next iteration will have them be
attached to the main frame instead.</span><br />
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It will also be just a pocket, rather than a full on pack. Rather
than a built in suspension, I’ll simply attach it to the main
frame. I think I may keep shoulder strap and waist belt
attachment points (and maybe include pockets for aluminum stays).
If I want to take it off the frame and carry it alone, I can if I
do that. I intend to put a pocket along the back to slip a piece
of foam in, both as a seat pad and to give the pack some
rigidity. (And that would also clear up room inside currently taken up by the inflatable seat pad I have in there.)</span><br />
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I also have the idea to do an iteration of it which is just a top
opening pack, rather than a full clamshell opening. While
everything is neatly attached, I wonder if it’s really such a
good use of the space available.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A Pelican 1600 strapped on to a <a href="https://store.kifaru.net/tactical-platform-frame-and-suspension-p190.aspx" target="_blank">Kifaru Duplex frame</a>. (The belt, shoulder straps, frame sheets and aluminum stays removed from the Squish’mups.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Stripped down Squish’mups strapped to the <a href="http://exploriment.blogspot.ca/2011/05/kifaru-express.html" target="_blank">Kifaru MOLLE Express</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Stripped down Squish’mups on a <a href="https://store.kifaru.net/tactical-platform-frame-and-suspension-p190.aspx" target="_blank">Kifaru Duplex frame</a>, with a <a href="https://www.mec.ca/en/product/5044-007/Duffle-Bag" target="_blank">MEC duffel bag</a> between them.</span></div>
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