On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Natalie Wiest wrote: > I also try to hold the fabric up enough that I'm not looking at much of the > flame - really gets to your eyes if you look at it too long. I think I've > seen suggestions of using a soldering iron all along the edges but haven't > tried that technique myself. The skin on my skin/frame kayak is nylon, real beefy nylon. I did all the cutting with a soldering iron, many skin/frame builders use a hot knife. The nylon skin fabric won't cut with scissors (at least not without special scissors). All the cut edges were fused and have held up to the "drum tight" deck sewing pulling parallel to the cut edge. kirk *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Apr 12 1999 - 14:24:07 PDT
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