In reply to richardkeys20:
> p.s. Anyone else manufactured their own gear? I'd love to see some cool designs!
I have a climbing partner who has made his own hexes (small sized ones), but then he works in a machine shop, so has access to the tools...
And he uses some of them quite regularly, too. They may not be as light as shop bought ones, but they work - mostly used in "chock" rather than in "camming" configuration, but then he mostly uses his shop-bought hexes that way round, too.
He has some other ideas too, and some of them may even be marketable - so I'm not going to divulge them