Two questions:
What equipment and technique do you use when sewing binding to these geometric situations:
A. 90 degree outside turn
B. also a 90 degree inside turn
If more specifics are desired, the carpet is about 1/4 to 3/8 inch thick and the binding is 3/4 inch wide (vinyl single fold).
How is this done best?
Doyle
binding a 90 degree outside corner just run off the end cut and start again on a inside id straighten the corner a just bind around but generally ill just have a circle like for a table leg . I take it this is snap in carpet? on a boat?
Mike,
The carpet is going in a old roadster classic, big bucks have been spent on the car (late 20's to early 30's).
I understood what you do on an inside corner, round it, but I can't on this car. I finished the carpet, it looks great, but am very interested in how others would have handled the task.
Mike, what I did on the 90 degree outside question was, instead of cutting and starting again, I merely run the up to the corner, folded the binding to take off in the other direction, it is cleaner and looks great. But, how to handle the inside corner, I can't round it, can't cut the carpet differently that is. I scratched my head and did it another way. But, there is probably a better way and if someone has done this I would be interested, very interested, to hear about it.
The customer was very pleased with what I did and said he had two more pieces to bring in for binding. I don't know where they go in the car yet, but the piece I just completed was the main floor carpet, it was two pieces. On the completed piece, in disucussion, was a requirement to bind a rectangular hole about 2 inch by 1 inch. I don't run the binding tape around the four sides in that case, I used a different technique, no joins at any of the four corners.
Back to the inside 90 degree turn, if you couldn't round the 90 degree turn a bit, then would you cut the tape and start again, Mike? I couldn't do that exactly because it left the inner part unbound.
I need to borrow June's camera, huh? ;)
Doyle
on inside 90 i stop short of the corner, cut the binding to go 1/4" longer than the corner and cut a slit in the binding so it binds up to the corner and has the lil flaps on both sides..then I cut the binding with a 1/2" slit and start it overlapping the old binding...start sewing again where I stopped and make the turn...it has worked for me in some situations but not sure if it will work for you on "high dollar" work
Very interesting technique JD. Our minds on this issue think much alike.
Your technique is great.
I did pretty much like you and was able to fold the material on a 45 degree to gain compatibility with the external 90 degree corners.
Thanks for your information,
Doyle