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12/7/2015 at 9:48pm
Location: Derby.
Outfit: Karsten 350+Awnings
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I don't have a camping "history", having only started 3 years ago tomorrow ( ), and in all honesty, I don't think I'd particularly enjoy "faffing" around with a frame tent (This is a sheer guess, as I've never touched one, or seen one being put up "live"... the diagrams put me off!!  ) ... bit I have to say, once they are up, I think they look bloody fantastic. And of course, I'm fast becoming a big fan of "proper" canvas. I wouldn't have said this a few years ago, but now, I'd say the more garish the curtains, the better!
I for one love it, Splatters! Hope you get much enjoyment from it. Congratulations.  
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12/7/2015 at 10:28pm
Location: North West
Outfit: Obelink Familia 6; ESVO Bedouin 280
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Well canvas can look like a bit of a faff, but my tent has all its springs intact, so all the poles in each group are linked.
Here's me with my tent frame in progress:
There are basically three main groups of linked poles for the roof section. After they are snapped together, you are left with the three main structural prices of the tent. One set makes the ridge and there's a set for both the right and left sides, with poles that link in to the ridge pole.
Once you have built the roof structure by snapping them together (six pole junctions in total), there are six identical leg poles. Each leg pole has two sections (again sprung together). In the pic, the legs are on but the tent is on its knees, as it were and is ready for the canvas to be pulled over it.
Once the canvas is on, it takes two people to lift it and snap the leg sections together. You do it one side at a time, so all three legs on the right followed by all three on the left.
Then the pegs go in all around the edge and guys go out.
Inners go in quite like a modern tent and there are a couple of extra poles for the kitchen bit that just snap onto the main frame, pop a groundsheet down if you want / need to and you're all done.
Apart from the curtains.
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