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Do you want to know how to attach grill cloth?

First paint the baffle Flat black.

1) I build a frame and glue/nail/staple it to the baffle board.

2) Then I crease the grill cloth in a straight line on one side of the material, and do the same across the top. This forms a nice 90 degree reference corner.

3) I line this up on the frame and staple it down one side.

4) Then I use two pieces of plywood and clamp the material at the other side between them. I use that to help grip the material to stretch it evenly across the width of the baffle, and then staple it down.

5) I then staple the top, where the crease was made and repeat the clamping/stretching/stapling technique across the bottom.

This gives a very tight stretch finish that can't be beat!

6) Then, after piping around the baffle perimeter and valence, I press the assembly into the cabinet and screw it onto the cabinet from the inside.

It took a lot of cabinet builds to perfect this technique. I hope you can make use of it.

Also, here's a tutorial from the Gearpage forum

http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showth ... adid=67452

Cheers,

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Stephen
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Good post Stephen,

I'm a few days from grilling my baffle...which is drying from the black spray in the utility room...

So I will be sure to use your method and get back to you on the results!

-Frank

Stretching with that makeshift clamp is very important. Get those lines straight and clamp it well. It works!

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Stephen
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I'll give that clamping thing a shot next time, great idea. I hate it when my cloth is off!

Awesome. Thanks for the tip.

Well I got the grill cloth on last weekend.....I'd like to say I'm 95% happy with it.

It was my first grill cloth experience, and I tried coco's clamp method...and it works as advertised.....

Unfortunately, I should have used a 3rd clamp as the cloth sliped ever so slightly at one corner.

It's very hard to tell...I'm probably the only guy that notices it...

regardless, the rest came out looking great!

-F

I should have mentioned the number of clamps - I use 3.

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Here's Another Tip: To make that crease really first class, fold it along the lines of the cloth, then clamp it between two pieces of wood using 3 or 4 clamps. Clamp it for 1 minute. You can also use a Workmate if you have one. Do the same for the adjacent corner.

Works like a charm!

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Stephen
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LOL...

Well, you know something....it still came out looking pretty darn good with 2. Like I said, I think it's a minute enough curve were I could only tell the difference.

Everyone has seen the cab has only noticed it when I draw attention to it and even then, go "You can barely tell" (and they're not the type to just say that, they'd tell me it looked like crap if they saw fit)

So all in all, I'm happy. When I get the handles, the back and all of the accessories on it, I'll be sure to post a pic!

-Frank