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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Time to finish my SOF
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 8/11/2010, 7:37 am
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: Time to finish my SOF *PIC* (barry boyette)

: The top skin is almost completely glued on. I still have to finish
: a 4-5 foot section on right front and then trim off excess. I'm
: then going to glue a 3 or 4 inch layer of pinked edge tape over
: the seam to help hide it. I've started to shrink the the top
: skin as you can see in the picture. The bottom shrunk well using
: my fabric iron at 350 F but the top was still a little saggy
: until we put a heat gun on it with much higher temps.

Looks nice, it does help to stretch the fabric as much as possible when putting on the fabric, means there is far less shrinking required.

Bill H.

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Skin-on-Frame: Time to finish my SOF *PIC*
barry boyette -- 7/25/2010, 10:13 pm
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barry boyette -- 9/6/2010, 9:36 pm
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Clayton Plunkett -- 9/6/2010, 9:45 pm
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barry boyette -- 9/6/2010, 10:15 pm
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barry boyette -- 9/6/2010, 9:42 pm
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barry boyette -- 9/6/2010, 6:50 am
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Kudzu -- 9/6/2010, 9:47 am
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barry boyette -- 9/6/2010, 1:04 pm
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Kudzu -- 9/6/2010, 2:07 pm
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Dave Gentry -- 9/6/2010, 8:21 am
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barry boyette -- 9/6/2010, 6:53 am
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barry boyette -- 9/3/2010, 9:18 pm
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barry boyette -- 9/4/2010, 7:49 pm
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Clayton Plunkett -- 9/4/2010, 8:28 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/5/2010, 12:32 am
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barry boyette -- 9/5/2010, 9:01 am
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Clayton Plunkett -- 9/5/2010, 8:59 am
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barry boyette -- 9/3/2010, 9:20 pm
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barry boyette -- 9/2/2010, 9:24 pm
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barry boyette -- 8/27/2010, 10:20 pm
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barry boyette -- 9/2/2010, 9:20 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/3/2010, 12:57 am
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barry boyette -- 8/27/2010, 10:11 pm
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barry boyette -- 8/27/2010, 9:57 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/28/2010, 4:50 am
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barry boyette -- 8/28/2010, 6:44 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/28/2010, 7:45 am
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barry boyette -- 7/25/2010, 10:36 pm
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barry boyette -- 8/10/2010, 10:40 pm
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Will Clarke -- 9/2/2010, 9:57 pm
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barry boyette -- 9/2/2010, 10:52 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/11/2010, 7:37 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Time to finish my SOF
barry boyette -- 8/11/2010, 10:02 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/12/2010, 1:04 am
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barry boyette -- 8/12/2010, 6:06 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/13/2010, 12:43 am
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John VanBuren -- 7/26/2010, 11:16 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/26/2010, 12:09 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Time to finish my SOF
barry boyette -- 7/26/2010, 7:00 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Time to finish my SOF
Bill Hamm -- 7/27/2010, 7:58 am
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barry boyette -- 7/25/2010, 10:31 pm
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barry boyette -- 7/25/2010, 10:30 pm