• This community needs YOUR help today. We rely 100% on Supporting Memberships to fund our efforts. With the ever increasing fees of everything, we need help. We need more Supporting Members, today. Please invest back into this community. I will ship a few decals too in addition to all the account perks you get.



    Sign up here: https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/account/upgrades
  • Friends, our 2nd Amendment rights are always under attack and the NRA has been a constant for decades in helping fight that fight.

    We have partnered with the NRA to offer you a discount on membership and Muzzleloading Forum gets a small percentage too of each membership, so you are supporting both the NRA and us.

    Use this link to sign up please; https://membership.nra.org/recruiters/join/XR045103

Flax canvas

shop deals on amazon
muzzle loading side side shotguns
Muzzleloading Forum

Help Support Muzzleloading Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
T

TANSTAAFL

Cannon
Joined
Feb 25, 2003
Messages
6,528
Reaction score
15
Wasn't sure where to put this, so will do so here.

I ordered out some flax canvas from Harbor Freight, is 8'x8' nice heavy canvas, it is 100% flax and made in Russia. (this might be the original Russian duck. :grin: ) Is sold as a welder's protective blanket and comes fire retardant treated. Got it draped over the fence wetting down to obtain shrinkage.

The color is a light sage green, (the 46" barreled smoothie is optional) price was $40.00. I foresee a few projects coming out of this piece of material, haversacks, knapsacks, shooting bags, or, just treat it with water proofing for a nice diamond fly shelter and purchase one of the smaller sizes to cut up.
[url] http://search.harborfreight.com/cpisearch/web/search.do?keyword[/url] (Key word is flax)


Two-1.jpg
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Thats a better deal than what I almost bought.Thanks for the link.
 
Can you post a close-up? I'm curious as to what type of weave (simple, twill etc.)
Thanks
 
Wouldn't you know it, I paid 40 bucks for the 8'x 8', and now it is on sale for $30.00.
 
Thank you for the tip! I've been holding off on making a diamond 'cause I couldn't find the right material for the right price. This looks good to me. Just put my order in.

:thumbsup:

PS: what weave is it, exactly? (For we uninitiated.)
 
Couldn't make up my mind as to cut it up for accoutrements, or keep for a diamond shelter. As resistance was low, and the 8'x8' was now on sale for $30.00, I struck again while iron was hot and ordered another one out.

Not crazy about the zinc coated grommets for the diamond fly shelter, but think I will leave in place and use heavy thread to stitch them around to hide & make the zinc disappear.
 

Latest posts

Back
Top