To glue it to staple?

[realkingcobra]

I just set up a brand new Spencer Marston table last weekend. Despite having slate liners and the incredibly easy to install Championship Invitational, I still opted to glue the cloth, using RKC250.
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I had to come back and look at these pictures again! I'm actually jealous, because it looks like I did this table, but I know I didn't!!! But it LOOKS like I did this damn table, BUT I DIDN'T!

Jeff, you have come a long way from your beginnings to now, and you've traveled the path with honor, and it sure does show in your work, you ARE a true craftsman!

And THANK YOU for the pictures NO ONE seems willing to post when they show their so called work!!!!

 

[realkingcobra]

Now here's another little bit of education for all of you viewers!!

Take a look at both pictures, on the rail Jeff recovered, he trimmed the excess cloth off with a razor, which is why his cloth edge is so straight, BUT if you're going to use a razor to trim with, you MUST angle your staples as Jeff has done, or you risk having the cloth pull loose because both staple legs are in the same weave line, and you cut across the curve of the weave without knowing it!

Now if you look at the rail I recovered, my staples are in a straight line, but because I trimmed my excess rail cloth with scissors, they follow the weave grain of the cloth, so you can see my cloth edge go around the staples, dip in, then go around the staples, so my cloth can't pull away from the staples either. Jeffs staple pattern is 100% correct, because he's trimming with a razor, not scissors!!!!