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Originally Posted by Jere
...I have found that what makes the biggest difference is how full the bag is packed with what ever you fill it with. .. I have several bags made from different materials, filled with different media, and of different sizes. I find that I choose the bag more by how tightly it is packed more than size or what material is on the outside.
Smaller bowls = tighter bag and larger more flowing shapes = softer bag.
Hope this helps.
Jere
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It does help, Jere. Experimenting with different fills is exactly what I am trying to do. My latest filling material is Black Diamond blasting media as it has negligible silica content. But how much to fill is always a question, so having a bag relatively full next to one less filled will be good for me. Cost of discarded leather couch is negligible, and using the bag construction method in Ed Barr's very good book
Professional Sheet Metal Fabrication, I can make a bag fairly quickly. He uses Velcro closures, so it's easy to change the amount of fill, but if I have several bags with different fill I can feel results immediately.
Sounds like you have different "durometer" bags on purpose. I never thought of that.