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Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
By: Kevin McAtee
Date: 9/26/2011, 5:05 pm
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas (Bill Hamm)

: Oh yeah btw, make sure the canvas you're buying is unshrunk,
: otherwise there's no good way to tighten the fabric.

: Lots of cotton fabric is pre-shrunk so it doesn't change shape when
: you make something from it when it gets wet.

: Bill H.

: Here's how i stretched the skin that's on it,, stapled at the gunwales, Kevin

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Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
Kevin McAtee -- 9/20/2011, 9:39 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
Mike Savage -- 9/20/2011, 4:41 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas *PIC*
Kevin McAtee -- 9/20/2011, 4:58 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
Bill Hamm -- 9/21/2011, 1:23 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
Kevin McAtee -- 9/21/2011, 2:13 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
Bill Hamm -- 9/21/2011, 2:20 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
Mike Savage -- 9/21/2011, 8:46 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
Bill Hamm -- 9/22/2011, 1:59 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
shawn mitchell -- 9/23/2011, 3:48 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
Bill Hamm -- 9/23/2011, 6:41 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
Kevin McAtee -- 9/23/2011, 5:42 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
Bill Hamm -- 9/23/2011, 9:11 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
Kevin McAtee -- 9/26/2011, 5:05 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
Kevin McAtee -- 9/26/2011, 5:17 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas *PIC*
Kevin McAtee -- 9/26/2011, 11:37 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
Bill Hamm -- 9/27/2011, 2:07 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
Mike Savage -- 9/21/2011, 8:29 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
Eric Mattison -- 9/21/2011, 9:52 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
Bill Hamm -- 9/22/2011, 2:01 am