Not the prettiest patchwork but I work 4 days a week in these orvis waders so as some point you stop caring about what they look like and start caring solely about whether they hold wader. My go to strategy was aqua seal the waders and the patch material then stick them together, apply a layer of paper (I’ve thought about parchment paper but haven’t tried it) and then use two small pieces of wood with a wood clamp to compress it all together. I’ve never had this method fail on me yet, the only time I’ve had an issue is when I didn’t properly an aqua seal the area.
My work buys us Simms or orvis and i opted for the orvis. Overall I was very happy and they lasted about 4 months of abuse. A lot of my co workers with the Simms had complains about the seams failing and beginning to leak but I had no issues with that in mine. My biggest complain was that the ankle cuffs were super loose and let a bunch of fine gravel in, which in turn led to the stocking foot wearing out prematurely hence the patches. When I get my new pair I’m going to stitch it a bit tighter to hopefully prevent that.
Posted by FlyMalachi85
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Have you ever tried that flex seal tape? I’ve heard good things about that. Been meaning to try it on my booties.
ofcourse not
This is awesome. Keep it up!
have you tried aqua seal
4 days a week, my feet would rot off, lol
Not sure about Orvis, but my colleage had waders that were much worse than this. They were the front-zip style of Simms, and that zipper finally broke. When he sent them back for repairs they looked at the state of them and just straight up sent him brand new ones. Mind you, this was over a decade ago before Simms went to shit, but curious if customer service at Orvis is as good.