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Upholstery trickery

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8/25/1999 5:21 AM
tubegirl	Upholstery trickery Any hints/tips on covering a narrow panel cabinet with real Tweed fabric ?

8/25/1999 11:48 AM
Mook	I've heard you should use animal/organic glues as opposed to something like Rubber Cement. Supposedly rubber cement prevents the cabinet from "breathing". AES (www.tubesandmore.com) has tweed and other coverings. Mook

8/27/1999 1:56 PM

Andrew McWhirter

I read a tip on the old Ampage that suggested white or yellow PVA, thinned ~10%, is the best choice. That's what I used, and it worked fine.

Other tips:

Use a razor sharp craft knife to get really neat cuts on the corners.

Don't try to do it all at once. Do (say) both sides, then let that dry (an hour or so) and then do the other surfaces.

Tweed won't stretch very much around curves, like in the oval cutouts in back panels, or on the inside corner of the control panel cutout, if it's a chassis-down-the-back style. I found that I could just get it to stretch enough to do the oval cutouts, but no way was it going to do the inside corners of the control panel cutout. I glued small scraps in there first.

Hold edges in place with masking tape while the glue dries.

Mojo tweed is wider (at 66") than the stuff AES has, and is prelacquered (both a blessing and a curse - the lacquer is the reason it won't stretch very well, but at least you won't have to lacquer later)

I dunno enough about the peculiarities of the narrow panel cabinets to give you anything specific there, sorry!

Hope that helps you a bit.

Andrew

8/27/1999 2:08 PM
tubegirl	Thanks for the tips, Andrew - they should come in very handy.

9/1/1999 1:36 PM

Andrew McWhirter

Hey there,

Glad I could help. Feel free to email me if you have any more questions.

I see in another of your posts you are a fellow Aussie? (I'm in Sydney) Are you interested in joinging our Oz/NZ guitar amp discussion group (players/tinkerers/techs)?

Also, I finally put up some pics of my Gibson tweed cabinet:

http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~mcwhirt/andrew/images/ga80_fr.jpg

http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~mcwhirt/andrew/images/ga80_ba.jpg

http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~mcwhirt/andrew/images/ga80_ba2.jpg

http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~mcwhirt/andrew/images/ga80_pnl.jpg

9/3/1999 1:35 PM
tubegirl	Yeah I hail from Syd-en-ey too. Used to get my valve supplies from Andrew Kay but then he moved down to Bateman's. Might drop in on your discussion group sometime.

9/7/1999 12:39 PM

Andrew McWhirter

>Yeah I hail from Syd-en-ey too. Used to get my valve

>supplies from Andrew Kay but then he moved down to

>Bateman's.

Is *that* what happened to him? I went in there a couple of weeks ago and his old shop is a CANDLE SHOP!!

Be interested in swapping sources with you...

>Might drop in on your discussion group sometime.

Please do! ANZAmps@listbot.com You need to go to www.listbot.com and subscribe. (anyone else is welcome too, but it's mainly Oz/NZ-centric.)

Cheers

Andrew

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