Pre-Cut WINTER12 Tarp Kit

This will be the second diy farm from RSBR. Little nerve racking at first but great kit take your time all good

This is my second Winter tarp project. The first one I had to cut the pieces myself than to paint all the walls that I ruined :)
I highly recommend to buy the precut kit save a lot of time.

I love this company. Great customer service, and they deliver promptly. American made, and American owned! I’m very impressed with this company!

The kit was awesome and went together quite well. Please update the instructions... they don’t exactly match the material delivered.

As a beginner on a budget. I appreciate this option. Learning to sew and hammock have been fun. Please put your instructions for the kit together and make them separate from the other tarp kits. No instructions for stuff sack, inadequate instructions for seaming for beginners.

First off, let me say that RSBTR is awesome. They've been getting alot of my money lately. I'm hooked. I cant wait to go backpacking using the pack I made, and sleep under my winter12 tarp in my self made apex climashield sleeping bag.

Starting off its kind of confusing. I had to download the pdf instructions. The silnylon was stuck together where it was laser cut. I had to peel it apart.the fabric seemed ok though. Take your time sewing the ridgeline. It is not possible to guide it evenly by hand. I pinned the seam and hand stitched a little tack stitch every 6 inches or so and then removed the pins. This made it easy to sew straight through.

I actually bought this for a ground tarp with a bug mesh tent inside, not a hammock. Its too tall to pitch with regular trekking poles and still have the doors line up. So I'll have to use trees or put 6" jackpole extensions on my trekking poles.

My 1.1oz silnylon tarp weighs 1lb 10 oz with 3mm paraccord guy lined

I'm very happy with the order. Everything arrived quickly and packaged in an organized manner. All materials were very high quality and fit together better than expected. The material sample kit included much more material than I expect and was enough to make two additional 5L stuff sacks. Great tutorial videos and after sales support. Thanks Ripstop team.

As always, the fabric from RSBTR is top notch and the customer service is excellent. Having the fabric pre-cut is a major time saver and well worth the small additional cost! I'd definitely recommend this kit!
My suggestion: The directions are missing the section on attaching the panel pull-outs and the directions for the corner reinforcements do not match the shape / cut of the reinforcements that are sent with the kit. It took a bit of head scratching to figure out which reinforcements were for which parts of the tarp. My (possibly wrong) conclusion: square is for panel pulls, ice-cream-cone shape is for door tie-outs, and half-circle shape is for ridgeline and corner tie-outs. Maybe the new reinforcements are meant to be glued / seam-sealed on like the reinforcements in the ultralight winter tarp kit? If you do want to sew them on, make sure to hem any edges that would end up raw (i.e., not hidden under the rolled hem along the tarp edge).

This is a kit like God's grace because I don't have room to cut the vast tarp fabric.
1.1silpoly was easier to sew than expected, and a great winter tarp was output!
It is recommended to use a thread with a small expansion rate.
Also, each tieout tried the same method as the ultralight version, but it seems to work well with 1.1 too!
I would be happy if there were a little more color variations, but still a great DIY kit!
RSBTR is a treasure trove for me:)

Fast shipping on a silpoly and a silnylon winter 12 kit. My first projects ever! Went together great, one kit was short 3 reinforcing pads, but I didnt have time to catch up with RsBtR, buddy came thru for me and spotted me some fabric to finish up. Have used them twice now in typical Virginia winter weather, low 30°s and rainy.
Love it! Thanks Ripstop!

Everything arrived quickly and as expected. Saved a ton of money and was able to customize it to make it just how I wanted.

The pre cut tarp kit was fantastic, however the reinforcements are a little tricky to attach, especially with the cat cuts. The instructions are good if not a little outdated. Take your time and it'll turn out great! The fact everything is already cut and ready to sew is a godsend.

Everything was included and RBTR was great. The nature of the fabric and the caternary cuts created challenges, but nothing insurmountable. Also pre-cut is the way to do it. Finished product covers a huge area for a little over a pound.

Took a full day to sew up the tarp, I now know why these things are so expensive but i think it was still worth doing it my self. Fun project. I really like the size of the tarp when its deployed

Second kit I have bought and the extra $ for Laser Pre Cut is SO WORTH IT!!!! Best customer service on the planet and ships super fast.

Excellent product with good instructions

I ordered a Pre-cut winter tarp, having already made an underquilt and many hammocks I was well aware of the issues of managing large amounts of fabric for cutting and did not fancy the task of cutting Cat-cuts.

There was a slight issue with my order when it arrived, 1 email to customer service and it was sorted.

The Pre-cut kit was perfect, and I had 90% of the tarp put together in a single evening. The instructions are good pointers but some creativity is needed for shaping the reinforcements. I found watching a few videos on YouTube to be very helpful in addition to the instructions.

The fabric quality is superb and dryer than anything I have bought in the UK so far. I Recently had my tarp up in some very strong gales and all was well.

Would 100% reccomend.

For someone with no sewing experience, this was a great project that was easy to put together. The instructions along with information and pictures in the knowledge base area of your website really helped. It really turned out better than I could have hoped. Thanks!

The kit was great with fast shipping. Hope to try it out Thanksgiving night at McAfee Knob.

The last time I sewed anything was a home ce class in 7th grade. I was looking at upgrading tarp to size that would fit my wife and I hanging tandem and boy was I surprised at the prices. I found this tarp kit and said why not give it a try. It was surprisingly easy and only took about 3-4 hours. Now I have the pride of making something with my hands and more money in my pocket!

Amazing quality

My only negative was the precut reinforcement pieces. The shapes don’t match up with the shapes In the directions which makes sewing them the way suggested does not work.

This tarp has been great! It was fairly daunting taking on such a large project, but the kit made things manageable. Getting the precut kit was well worth the extra money. Since finishing the tarp, it's been through a moderate snowstorm and several light rainstorms without any concern for worse conditions. There were also several times that the wind kicked up to 20+ mph. The tarp kept me warm and dry on all occasions. I'm stoked to have a tarp that's a fraction of the pack size and weight of my previous setup. This tarp gives my hammock MUCH better protection from the elements, and at a reasonable price to boot.

Pre-Cut WINTER12 Tarp Kit

This is a great option and so much easier than trying to cut this out yourself.

It says that when you get home take it out of the bag and start sewing but the problem is there's no thread so now I have to make another order to get the correct thread to sew it why can't we include the thread or tell us that we need the thread?

Great Quality!

I've recently bought a Winter Tarp Kit and pattern and was very pleased at the level and promptness of service (and kit delivery). The team were very helpful with advice for this 'first-timer' and I will be looking forward to getting a few more projects underway...once I see how good my sewing is! The only thing I would say, is that it would be even better if the postage to Australia was cheaper or even more exciting...free, like many of the UK/European websites. Otherwise, a great experience!