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[–] watty@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm mostly dealing with light ripstop fabrics. So yea, it doesn't apply great to more solid fabrics.

The table's surface is tempered glass. Then I have a paper template on that. Then I hot cut the ripstop right on top of the paper template with a soldering iron. If I go quick enough, the paper doesn't burn. The paper does degrade over multiple uses, but I've been able to use the same blueprint ~8 times before holes start showing up.

[–] Nooodel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Smart, with the hot iron you immediately seal the cut and it can't have threads falling out any more. I'll keep that in mind if I ever do another batch of bivy bags