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nahh...i like it the way it is. Thanks anyway. Subs should be here soon i hope.

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Hey Steve,

The vinyl wrapping is coming along well, here is a little tip that I have benefited from greatly, hopefully it will help you out...

In the picture below you will note the trimming is good, but not perfect, and you still have a few problem areas that are kinda wrinkling, over time these wrinkles can move around to the front of the piece, obviously not a good thing. The wrap is a little rough...

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To make this process a lot faster, cleaner, and easier, go out and grab a "rabbiting" bit for your router, Hell you probably have one! Haha It will look like this...

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You can see an example of this used here for my amp rack with a different application of stretching the material to glass too, with vinyl you do it on the back of your work piece, cut in like 3/8" and have a depth of 1/8". This gives you a little ridge to run your staples against, and also a channel to run a razor blade through.

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Here is another example on a speaker ring, obviously in your situation you do the channel on the back side of the piece you are covering..

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Well I hope I helped you, thanks for all the help you provide us!

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thanks but thats WAYY TO MUCH effort for a piece this small. Anything you see on the backside will never make it to the front. Its pulled way to tight, glued and stapled. I was getting low on staples, might literally have 3 left since i was pulling from the BOTTOm of the box...so it is lucky there is any staples in it.

good tip, i will use it, but in this case there was no need. Thanks!!

side-note: What you have up there is fleece, i am using padded vinyl - its not as easy to turn those corners and still have it look smooth on the face as it is with the fleece. When your bending corners like i did, you have to cut, pull, cut pull stretch - aint no rabbit edge gonna help you out in this situation. With fleece, for sure, that shit is easy to work with. Especially if its about to get glassed and isnt the actual finished product.

example: a rabbit bit would do nothing to help you in a situation like this

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or this

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so i feel you on the fleece but either it wont work or i dont have the skills to do that with vinyl<---- :D . I can see the open areas but i dont know about the tight corners or irregular area's - Hell, even my upholster's who i get my pimp shit done by, have to do whatever it takes to pull the material around the corner and staple it. The backside never looks as good as the front but its ok, it doesnt need to :)

anyway good tip i will use it at some point or another....i have a rabbit bit or 3 i just dont use them much.


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Yeah I didn't have any pics of using it with vinyl but I still have to say it has helped a lot for me, for instance say you have a piece that sits up flush against wood, when you rabbet it it allows the vinyl to sit flush with the back of the trim piece, thus you get no waves, and the two pieces will hold more evenly to one another, I have also found on your hard corners doing a small radius of about .25" to .5 inch helps drastically with the wrap. And in the end it isn't noticeable.

For instance I did this one these pieces you see here...

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Give it a try man, I know you will like it :)

Bad ass build btw!

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i actually think i like my way better, and it gets no "waves" doing it the way i do it either.......thanks for the advice though!! :)

edit: if you are talking about the waves where the staples are at on the backside, that only happens where i am using the vinyl with the 1/8th inch padding. When it is just vinyl to wood, there is no waving. Either way, the front, the part that shows, doesnt develope any waving or wrinkling and that is what matters most.


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