rafezetter
Troll Hunter
I have spent the last 6 weeks or so working on a design (with a seamstress) that takes what I hope are the most useful parts of various aprons aimed at woodworkers and have come up with what I hope to be a good design of my own.
Before it gets made (and then becomes available for others to order after) I thought I'd ask for feedback on this design to see if there's any glaring things I've missed. I'm not looking for comments like "needs a hammer loop" or other things you think would be good for the way you work personally - I'm thinking more along the line of ideas that would suit the majority I may have overlooked.
Edit: I'm not personally bringing this to market - the seamstress who's making mine for ME would utilize the design (with any customizes additions requested by you) for her Etsy shop as I have neither the desire nor finances to embark on such an endeavour, and there will be no financial gain for me for providing this design.
Here's a photo and design sketch to show the various parts of it.
The top set of pockets are pretty self explanetory, designed with try square / small ruler / marking knife / pencil 1 / pencil 2 in mind.
The lower sets have what I hope to be handy modifications from the aprons elsewhere. The whole lower set will sit under a flap that covers the whole lot - so shavings of various types don't get into the pockets, and the flap itself will incorporate rare earth magnets into it's hem so it can be stowed open for regular access when shavings aren't flying.
The lower pockets comprise of:
2x large deep rears, large enough for notebooks, calculators, gloves etc
3x smaller concertina pockets for tape measures, screws, router bits etc.
2x shallow but wide "row pockets" for hot swapping your drillbits / screwdriver tips / spadebits in and out of - for those people not lucky enough to have 2 or three dedicated cordless drills.
1x lower ballpoint pocket.
the loop is for a cloth rag to wipe mucky fingers NOT FOR HAMMERS!! (hammer) - it will be more like a flat loop than what is shown though.
The spacing will also be altered, the spacings shown was purely as a background to the pocket designs.
For ties - the maker will either use cotton webbing to tie, or will leave blank for you to add your own (as in my case I'm adding leather straps as well as a few other minor additions).
The maker will be doing this design upon request - details I'll add later - and can customize spacing of pockets or size of apron itself to suit personal requirements.
Material will most probably be heavy denim - and the price will be around £75 give or take. Pricier than some addmittedly, but not far off ones offered by rutlands or rockler and looking far less like "sling as many loops, pockets and knickknack holes on it as possible to appeal to the widest audience of buyers as possible!"
Before it gets made (and then becomes available for others to order after) I thought I'd ask for feedback on this design to see if there's any glaring things I've missed. I'm not looking for comments like "needs a hammer loop" or other things you think would be good for the way you work personally - I'm thinking more along the line of ideas that would suit the majority I may have overlooked.
Edit: I'm not personally bringing this to market - the seamstress who's making mine for ME would utilize the design (with any customizes additions requested by you) for her Etsy shop as I have neither the desire nor finances to embark on such an endeavour, and there will be no financial gain for me for providing this design.
Here's a photo and design sketch to show the various parts of it.
The top set of pockets are pretty self explanetory, designed with try square / small ruler / marking knife / pencil 1 / pencil 2 in mind.
The lower sets have what I hope to be handy modifications from the aprons elsewhere. The whole lower set will sit under a flap that covers the whole lot - so shavings of various types don't get into the pockets, and the flap itself will incorporate rare earth magnets into it's hem so it can be stowed open for regular access when shavings aren't flying.
The lower pockets comprise of:
2x large deep rears, large enough for notebooks, calculators, gloves etc
3x smaller concertina pockets for tape measures, screws, router bits etc.
2x shallow but wide "row pockets" for hot swapping your drillbits / screwdriver tips / spadebits in and out of - for those people not lucky enough to have 2 or three dedicated cordless drills.
1x lower ballpoint pocket.
the loop is for a cloth rag to wipe mucky fingers NOT FOR HAMMERS!! (hammer) - it will be more like a flat loop than what is shown though.
The spacing will also be altered, the spacings shown was purely as a background to the pocket designs.
For ties - the maker will either use cotton webbing to tie, or will leave blank for you to add your own (as in my case I'm adding leather straps as well as a few other minor additions).
The maker will be doing this design upon request - details I'll add later - and can customize spacing of pockets or size of apron itself to suit personal requirements.
Material will most probably be heavy denim - and the price will be around £75 give or take. Pricier than some addmittedly, but not far off ones offered by rutlands or rockler and looking far less like "sling as many loops, pockets and knickknack holes on it as possible to appeal to the widest audience of buyers as possible!"
