Introduction and Covering Rails Question

realkingcobra

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Hello All. My name is Julio and feel it's time to introduce myself. I visit the form often and appreciate the wealth of knowledge offered here. I'm not sure I'll call myself a mechanic just yet, but I am an up and comer in Las Cruces, New Mexico. I learned the trade from one Kerry Rhodes, maker of Ridgeback Rails. I've been on my own for a couple of years now and feel I'm doing pretty good. I always want to get better though so I will be posting more questions as they arise. Here's the first.


How do you get rail cloth nice and tight and not deform the corner like in this pic? I think I should be able to put a straight edge on the nose of a rail and it be perfectly straight. Thanks and take it easy. Julio

You're pulling the cloth to hard over the nose of the cushions, go to seyberts.com and buy my Simonis cloth installation DVDs.
 

jviss

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Silver Member
Never been one to show off my work on this site.. But, here are a few examples:

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Geoff, I can't see the pics. Don't know it others can, it seems maybe RKC can.

Update: I'm pretty sure it's a Mac Safari browser problem, I can see them on Chrome.

Update 2: looked into this, webp format was developed by Google for Chrome, Firefox now supports it, Apple's Safari is the last holdout to not support it.
 
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jviss

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Silver Member
So, thanks for the pics! That's a lot staples, many more than I would have imagined. Glad I saw this.

Are you guys using a power stapler, or are you muscling it with a manual one?
 

JulioRice

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Thanks all for the replies, and I do enjoy that my first post spurred lively conversation. But especially thanks RKC. Straight forward and to the point, answered the question.
And yes, i was confused by the video as well. I'm glad some folks chimed in on that.

More questions to come. Much appreciated. Take it easy. Julio
 

realkingcobra

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Silver Member
Thanks all for the replies, and I do enjoy that my first post spurred lively conversation. But especially thanks RKC. Straight forward and to the point, answered the question.

And yes, i was confused by the video as well. I'm glad some folks chimed in on that.

More questions to come. Much appreciated. Take it easy. Julio
If you have more questions just ask them, SlateMate was pushing the limits of my patience asking so many childish questions I just figured if he's looking for advice on how to write a book about being a table mechanic I could save a lot of my time.by just charging him and getting the job done, that many questions was just rediculess. Asking for advice because YOU want to do the job is one thing, but asking question after question because you're trying to avoid paying someone don't mean ANYONE here owes that free advice just because someone insists his questions get answered for free.
 
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