Fred - What's your method for clamping the new felt? Thanks, Zeno Wood On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> wrote: > On Sep 18, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Paul Milesi, RPT wrote: > > If I can’t get new repetitions, is it worth trying to bolster cushions or > can they be easily replaced? > > > I prefer replacement of felt to bolstering. Turn the stack upside down, > saturate the felt with an acetic acid solution (a little wallpaper remover > or alcohol helps it soak right in, and heating the solution a bit speeds up > the process). Pull felt off when it is nice and loose, replace using hot > hide glue. Precut felt to size in a mass production manner (strip to width, > then cut to length; or, if you have strips that are as wide as the length > you need, just slice to width). Use a rotary cutter on a mat, a straight > edge with mild sandpaper glued to one side to hold it firmly. > Learning this kind of technique is well worth while in the long run, as it > has plenty of applications. > Regards, > Fred Sturm > fssturm at unm.edu > http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/FredSturm > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100920/2a26ce85/attachment.htm>
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