Good Tool Bags?

[Rick Starr]

For years I've ordered the WB riggers bag and been mighty impressed.

Now they've gone and changed 'em, I notice, as this new thing is sitting in my lap, having arrived today.

Gone is the double layered bottom, and the fabric, though tough, ain't the canvas it once was.

Is the old type gone the way of the dinosaur? Does anyone have a favorite style soft tool bag?

[Donn]

Duluth Trading (http://www.duluthtrading.com/?processor=content&asp_processor=&action=nopost&p_keyword=&p_contenttype=&sectionpath=1/27/155&pageid=145&categoryid=&categoryname=&filter=&pg=0) has an extensive line, and their quality/price relationship is good, despite being bought out by Fiskar.

[Rick Starr]

... despite being bought out by Fiskar.

What's the significance of that? Fiskar was great, then plummeted, if I recall. I didn't know about them buying Duluth.

I've had rotten luck with Duluth products and service and shy away from them as a general rule.

[paladin]

Get a military surplus canvas tool bag....most of the commercial ones are copies to start with......common colors are O.D. and Black but a few years the air force ones were dark blue.....

[Donn]

What's the significance of that? Fiskar was great, then plummeted, if I recall.

When Fiskar was just a cutlery manufacturer, they made good stuff, almost 100% good stuff. Since they've become a brand owner, they've regularly reduced the quality of the brands they've bought, and done the same to their own line.

I've had very good luck with the stuff Duluth makes, as opposed to the stuff they buy, or are force-fed by Fiskar.

One exception...Fiskar's Garden Shears are one of my favorite tools. I use them for everything. They are almost always upon my person.

[Dave Fleming]

Geeze Rick, why not make yer own?

If memory serves and, if you have no pattern to go by, Hervey Garrett Smith shows one in his book The Marlinespike Sailor. He doesn't give drawings but, does describe the measurements for a rigging bag and,several other canvas products.

[rbgarr]

For years I've ordered the WB riggers bag and been mighty impressed.... Does anyone have a favorite style soft tool bag?

This Lee Valley Parachute Bag is what I use for a ditty bag, although I was given one of the WB versions. My wife has absconded with that one to use for kindling, fire-lighter, fire-starter, newspaper, forks and marshmallows for shoreside bonfires. More power to her, I say.

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