Recovering the Rails?

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Fenwick

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Hi,

I have a Kasson table that I'm in the process of reflecting (or attempting to). I originally reused the felt that came with it when I bought it from a neighbor. This time however, I've chosen to change colors and now must address the rails. I'm very confused on how to get the new felt onto the rails. I thought that screws attached the bumpers to the rails but upon closer inspection I believe these screws only attach the rails themselves to the table. A lot of internet articles discuss Feather Strips - these are not visible on my rails, do all rails utilize feather strips? do the bumpers themselves drop down (via a hinge of some sort) from the rails? Any help/advice would be great appreciated, thanks in advance!! (the bumper and rail are snuggly fit together with no visible gap whatsoever)
 
you need to take the rails completly loose and free from the table and pockets/corner caps, now if you flip the rails upside down you will notice a bunch of staples. now is the time to remove them, after you have that done you can flip the rail cloth out of the way so you can see the cushion, then there should be a wooden/plastic/rubber strip holding the cloth in. gently pull the cloth upwards as close the the fs as possible and go every couple inches and pull up more to remove the fs.


if you are trying to recover your table and couldnt figure this out by looking at it, then i suggest not doing the job yourself, esp if you are using a nice cloth. as you could end up wasting a chunk of change. the bed cloth itself however will be easier to fig out on your own and make look ok.

good luck in what ever route you take
 
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Fenwick said:
I'm asking a question for someone else. here is his question.

Hi,

I have a Kasson table that I'm in the process of reflecting (or attempting to). I originally reused the felt that came with it when I bought it from a neighbor. This time however, I've chosen to change colors and now must address the rails. I'm very confused on how to get the new felt onto the rails. I thought that screws attached the bumpers to the rails but upon closer inspection I believe these screws only attach the rails themselves to the table. A lot of internet articles discuss Feather Strips - these are not visible on my rails, do all rails utilize feather strips? do the bumpers themselves drop down (via a hinge of some sort) from the rails? Any help/advice would be great appreciated, thanks in advance!! (the bumper and rail are snuggly fit together with no visible gap whatsoever)
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my suggestion is to leave the table together."remove pocket liner"..use a razor to cut the cloth under the rail/cushion area "close to the bottom" all the way from the inside of one pocket to another..cut the cloth so u can pull it back and see whats under the cloth..pull back towards you at a angle slowly on the excess rail cloth<< you will see a strip of material either plastic,rubber or wood in a groove holding the cloth in place, that's the feather strip<remove it buy pulling on cloth at a angle as i suggested..inspect cushions to make sure they have not come unglued....some mechanics do things different but i put the new cloth in the feather strips before i take it apart to do the rest.works great on the tables that have the blinds attached to the rails...kasson don't.. ..if u get all of that done give us in this forum a message and we would be more than happy to help u....i have worked on many of those tables, one person can do the work on that table...careful sometimes the veneer chips off those tables when removing the rail cloth...go slow...
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Rob.M
 
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