On Tue, 13 May 2014 03:47:15 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

Ive finally worn out my HF and HD tool bags. I use 2 bags..one for
ASA, one for Metric tools and both have sprung leaks as the seams
ripped out.

So I was thinking about making tool rolls, for end wrenches, drifts
and punches etc etc.

Anyone have any opinion on the ones from Home Depot?

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Bucket-Bo...0003/205070665

Or should I hit a fabric store and buy a couple yards of heavy canvas
and sew up my own?

Anyone make their own? Hints and tricks would be appreciated.

And what weight canvas/material should I get?

I carry tools as a service tech..so Im banging them around in the back
of the truck for a lot..a lot of miles

Thanks!

Gunner
My mother made a couple for my dad using pillow ticking but I dobt
that this material is even available nowdays.
---

Gerry :-)}
London,Canada

On Wed, 14 May 2014 00:23:07 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 13 May 2014 03:47:15 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

Ive finally worn out my HF and HD tool bags. I use 2 bags..one for
ASA, one for Metric tools and both have sprung leaks as the seams
ripped out.

So I was thinking about making tool rolls, for end wrenches, drifts
and punches etc etc.

Anyone have any opinion on the ones from Home Depot?

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Bucket-Bo...0003/205070665

Or should I hit a fabric store and buy a couple yards of heavy canvas
and sew up my own?

Anyone make their own? Hints and tricks would be appreciated.

And what weight canvas/material should I get?

I carry tools as a service tech..so Im banging them around in the back
of the truck for a lot..a lot of miles

Thanks!

Gunner
My mother made a couple for my dad using pillow ticking but I dobt
that this material is even available nowdays.
---

Gerry :-)}
London,Canada

My wife makes them for me but the secret is the material, as Gunner
says. I made the heavier duty ones from "Sunbrella" which is a heavy
canvas like material used for canopies on boats and is EXPENSIVE! (I
had a mate who ran a canvas shop and would give me remnants :-)
--
Cheers,

John B.
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On 5/14/2014 12:23 AM, wrote:

My mother made a couple for my dad using pillow ticking but I dobt
that this material is even available nowdays.
---

Gerry :-)}
London,Canada


In my college days (no money) I wanted a roll for my wrenches to stop
the toolbox rattling. Cut the leg off some jeans too worn for even me
to wear, opened one seam and sewed a dozen pockets. Still using it forty
years later.

On Wed, 14 May 2014 00:23:07 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 13 May 2014 03:47:15 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

Ive finally worn out my HF and HD tool bags. I use 2 bags..one for
ASA, one for Metric tools and both have sprung leaks as the seams
ripped out.

So I was thinking about making tool rolls, for end wrenches, drifts
and punches etc etc.

Anyone have any opinion on the ones from Home Depot?

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Bucket-Bo...0003/205070665

Or should I hit a fabric store and buy a couple yards of heavy canvas
and sew up my own?

Anyone make their own? Hints and tricks would be appreciated.

And what weight canvas/material should I get?

I carry tools as a service tech..so Im banging them around in the back
of the truck for a lot..a lot of miles

Thanks!

Gunner
My mother made a couple for my dad using pillow ticking but I dobt
that this material is even available nowdays.

It is. I've seen it on brand new COUCHES! urp

I haven't found any reasonably priced tool rolls lately, either, and
have been toying with rolling my own this time. My thoughts are with
using cordura, denim, or naugahyde, but canvas twill should be good,
too. I've bought a couple yards of this off eBay in the past years
and haven't built anything from them yet, so I'll probably finish
cleaning and lubing up the new $135 Singer walking foot machine I got
and go to work. I want more for my wood chisels, too, and for the
rasps and files coming my way. kaff, kaff I took the 22 piece
Pittsburgh combination wrench set and put it on a safety-pinlike
carabiner, but that's not working out at all. They're noisy in the
truck and hard to get off the clip. I need a manly tool roll, by
cracky! Oh, the walker came with a roll of binding, so I already have
the edge-finishing material here.

Cordura gets my first try.

--
I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you
have earned, but it is not greed to want take someone else's money.
--Thomas Sowell

On Wed, 14 May 2014 10:09:58 -0400, Larry Kraus
wrote:

On 5/14/2014 12:23 AM, wrote:

My mother made a couple for my dad using pillow ticking but I dobt
that this material is even available nowdays.
---

Gerry :-)}
London,Canada


In my college days (no money) I wanted a roll for my wrenches to stop
the toolbox rattling. Cut the leg off some jeans too worn for even me
to wear, opened one seam and sewed a dozen pockets. Still using it forty
years later.

Well, blue jeans supposedly originated with Levi sewing up some cotton
ships sails (canvas) to make work pants :-0
--
Cheers,

John B.
(invalid to gmail)