These straps and the plastic sliders and buckles are of the same good quality as the hand and waist straps on many backpacks and similar items. The medium-thick straps of many backpack straps (1.0 to 1.5mm), neither the very thin ribbon-like straps sometimes used for clasps or drawstrings, nor the extra-heavy straps on some hips. Belt. I plan to cut one much shorter and use it as a strap to carry my binocular bag on one side and camera bag on the other (in addition to the strap holding my pants). This should work for this and I have three other straps and hardware for other uses. This is just as good and much cheaper than buying webbing and plastic hardware separately in small quantities, and four of these straps are still cheaper than the cheapest "tactical" straps designed for this purpose, which weigh more, have more packing space adopt and have aggressive military look.