For my 45th birthday, my good friend Wade Stoner finally found a use for a strap I had been holding on to which had been made by Ellis Delahoy and which matched the tumpline I use for my bedroll.  Wade made me a haversack! A very cool haversack.  The outside is made from a very unique oilcloth, which doesn't look like the oilcloth I am used to but certainly acts like it.  He lined it with sturdy linen.  He separated the strap and added a buckle, so that it is adjustable.  He hand-sewed the straps to leather for fitting to the buckle and to the D-rings at the back of the bag.  The buckle is on my back so it doesn't get messed up other straps going across my chest (e.g., a canteen strap).

He added an extra brass D-ring onto each leather strap attachement for the purpose of using ties for a shirt or whatever—in the picture to the right, you can see the brain-tanned leather strips he put onto the smaller D-rings that in turn are sewn onto the leather strap attachments.  These small strips worked perfectly to hold my brown oilcloth rainshirt when I wasn't wearing it on the Lake.

The flap attaches with leather stips and hand-forged buckles.  He edged the flap with hand-sewn brain-tanned leather. It's very impressive.

You can see I got it dirty already. It has black powder on it, having christened it at the Lake George Tactical this October (2005). It worked GREAT!  There is a fine balance between a bag that holds enough and a bag that holds too much, and this is within the limit of holding a lot but NOT too much. 

In case you are interested, this bag is 13" tall and 11" wide.