17-10-2015, 08:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 17-10-2015, 08:51 AM by Radio Fixer.)
"I think there'll be as many ways of doing this as there are people doing it."
I don't think that's quite true Joe ... there are really only a few ways to do it. Yours is an interesting variant of mine. However, I'm not sure how you stretch the cloth out when you iron the top and eventually the sides. Hot melt glue hurts fingers pretty bad
Without stretch, with the materials I have used, they will sag. Perhaps with curtain material it wouldn't as that stuff has virtually no stretch anyway. Did you glue anywhere to the fretwork? I normally don't do this except in the Stork speaker case where the front slopes and the original was done this way. The reason for not gluing to the fret is that I have seen cases where the cloth has sagged in pockets between the fret cut out. Without the glue there is a chance that those sags would have evened out across the whole front. And you have the last ditch of 'spritzing' and drying it to tighten.
Lawrence's proposed method seems to be a variant, for direct to cabinet, on the embroidery hoop that I have read of people using when the radio has a baffle board. But to me the method I gave for this is tried and tested and better than several other ways I have used.
I doubt I would have had room for the sticks inside some cabinets and to me its untried and tested. To say "fiddle and experiment etc" is OK if you have a limitless supply of cloth but the stuff I buy is normally expensive, is posted from overseas (the speaker one was from the US and the Volks from Germany) so I wouldn't want to waste it.
I reckon I get a first class job doing it in a simpler fashion.
Gary
I don't think that's quite true Joe ... there are really only a few ways to do it. Yours is an interesting variant of mine. However, I'm not sure how you stretch the cloth out when you iron the top and eventually the sides. Hot melt glue hurts fingers pretty bad
Without stretch, with the materials I have used, they will sag. Perhaps with curtain material it wouldn't as that stuff has virtually no stretch anyway. Did you glue anywhere to the fretwork? I normally don't do this except in the Stork speaker case where the front slopes and the original was done this way. The reason for not gluing to the fret is that I have seen cases where the cloth has sagged in pockets between the fret cut out. Without the glue there is a chance that those sags would have evened out across the whole front. And you have the last ditch of 'spritzing' and drying it to tighten. Lawrence's proposed method seems to be a variant, for direct to cabinet, on the embroidery hoop that I have read of people using when the radio has a baffle board. But to me the method I gave for this is tried and tested and better than several other ways I have used.
I doubt I would have had room for the sticks inside some cabinets and to me its untried and tested. To say "fiddle and experiment etc" is OK if you have a limitless supply of cloth but the stuff I buy is normally expensive, is posted from overseas (the speaker one was from the US and the Volks from Germany) so I wouldn't want to waste it.
I reckon I get a first class job doing it in a simpler fashion.
Gary
