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Expandable Football (no monkey)

always89y

always89y

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Gonna try and pleat the football shaped design (Phantom-ish). So far pretty simple. Will update as progress is made.
Mesh is all one piece.
 

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This will be neat to see




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I’ve been thinking about doing this myself. Watching closely!


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Aeds151 said:
Will the pleat close or stay gaped like the Flex?


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It should stay closed. The mesh is pretty stiff. It may start to want to stay open after some use and I will add some 2inch elastic webbing in 3 spots if that does happen. I did put a stitch in the crease to get it to hold.
 
Sziggy2.0 said:
You really dont have any other hobbies do you?
Give us some ball park measurements please.
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To many hobbies! This one just happens to be on top right now. Original ADD kid here.
27 inches wide, 17 inches tall with a 5 inch pleat. So, 12 inches closed, 17 inches open in the center (or so).
 
I feel like I will need to reinforce the corners of the pleats since the webbing chassis does not cover it. Feels like it would come apart after some use. Im going to sew in some 1 inch webbing squares behind the pleat seams, then bind the sides with folded 2 inch webbing. Will post pics as progress is made.
 
So, I played around with leaving the sides open (not reinforced) with 2inch milspec elastic webbing used as binding, to allow the saddles full length to expand and not have a pinch point. I thought this might lend itself well to the use of the adjustment nodes on the bridge loops. Because of the angle that the bridge loops naturally take when under load, the ends pretty much stay together regardless. So, if you fully expand the pleats, the ends dont expand much, if at all. So, I went ahead and used 1 inch webbing to back the ends. Still, if im using 6 adjustment positions on the bridge loops, this renders the bottom 2 useless. So, im going to reduce the adjustment positions to just 4 on this one.
 

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Im impressed..i cant wait to find time to get my machines going so i can build some saddles for me and my friends
 
what kind of sewing machine are you using for this?
 
New to the whole differences in saddles.. so I imagine this will be a stupid question. What is a pleat?

is it extra fabric in the middle that expands when you sit and lean in it? And then retracts back when no pressure is on it?
 
Aaron Jones said:
New to the whole differences in saddles.. so I imagine this will be a stupid question. What is a pleat?

is it extra fabric in the middle that expands when you sit and lean in it? And then retracts back when no pressure is on it?
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PRetty much. It stays "pleated" until you pull either the top or bottom of the saddle. Then you can fold it back in. Its not automatic, but rather an optional 5 inches to deploy if needed.
 
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