adding stiffness into sewing pouches

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adding stiffness into sewing pouches

Postby taipan821 » Sat 11 Feb, 2017 8:17 pm

Hello all

currently sewing up some new notebook covers/field office rolls for S.E.S use and I was wondering what would the best method of adding stiffness to them so they are easier to write on? thinking about sewing in some sort of hard plastic in a sleeve.

Any other ideas?
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Re: adding stiffness into sewing pouches

Postby andrewa » Sat 11 Feb, 2017 9:37 pm

Today I gone through the same thought procession, trying to add stiffness to a leather overnight bag bottom...

There are bag bottom stiffeners out there - a grid pattern which gets glued in. Couldn't find a supplier in Melbourne.

For small bags, what about the plastic bag stiffeners that come out of the bottom of those green bags you buy from Safeway/Coles?

I needed up buying a bit of polycarbonate sheet 1 X 1 m, and 0.8 mm think from Bunnings and contact adhering it it. Looks fine.

You can also harden leather - Google it.

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Re: adding stiffness into sewing pouches

Postby taipan821 » Sat 11 Feb, 2017 10:05 pm

I'll probably go with sewing in a piece of polycarbonate, just want something hard to write on while out on jobs. funny thing is came across this problem while doing a risk assessment for a chainsaw exercise. what did you use to adhere it?
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Re: adding stiffness into sewing pouches

Postby Moondog55 » Sun 12 Feb, 2017 7:48 am

Double layer back, insert stiffener , sew top.
Thin ply/Melamine coated MDF with several coats of paint, thick cardboard ditto but stiff plastic is easiest as it is inherently waterproof but you can also DIY something using paper and epoxy in layers, if you had a scrap of CF tissue scrim that would also work well and be super LW as well as super strong
Ve are too soon old und too late schmart
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Re: adding stiffness into sewing pouches

Postby ofuros » Sun 12 Feb, 2017 9:11 am

Art shops have different thicknesses of plastic sheeting
on their shelves...they can also be cut to shape for
leatherwork templates.
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Re: adding stiffness into sewing pouches

Postby Neo » Sun 12 Feb, 2017 2:13 pm

Cut the ends off a 2 or 3L milk bottle and iron the remaining 'sheet' to make it flat. Use two etc for a stiffer board.
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Re: adding stiffness into sewing pouches

Postby Moondog55 » Sun 12 Feb, 2017 4:35 pm

Neo wrote:Cut the ends off a 2 or 3L milk bottle and iron the remaining 'sheet' to make it flat. Use two etc for a stiffer board.


I wish I had remembered that Good idea
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Re: adding stiffness into sewing pouches

Postby andrewa » Sun 12 Feb, 2017 6:51 pm

I've used contact adhesive to glue the polycarbonate to the leather bag. The other suggestion I was provided with recently was the place plastic stiffeners from the bottom of those green supermarket bags.

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Re: adding stiffness into sewing pouches

Postby Nuts » Mon 13 Feb, 2017 8:05 am

It's some sort of stiff laminate, the bag base liners I tried cracked where they bent. Have used the thin chopping boards (available at Kmart here) to stiffen a bike frame bag and a few other little projects, good stuff.
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