diamond tuck pleating.

Anyboudy willing to do a tutorial on it,as you old vanners should know how.So please, pass it on to us young ones.

Hey Imperfection - did you ever work out how to do?

Fuzz - Wizard

Wizard429 wrote:
Hey Imperfection - did you ever work out how to do?

Fuzz - Wizard

Yeh, buy in a roll from the states

what happened to the good old days of doing it yourself

But if you want to buy in fine and look like everyone else, go ahead. But doing it yourself - you choose fabrics, depth of the foam and so on. You have much more choice plus you determine the pitch of the pattern and the tuck.

Good luck

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Fuzz - The Wizard

I'm going to do it myself,thats why the van is called IMPERFECTION.

nothing is better than attempting it yourself, we need tutorials too , just so we can make it ours with help lol

OK... I got curious as to how to do it... so I did a bit of a search and found this tutorial on another site.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?s=08f9e54c17ade0846e4f0ba3c83a98b3&t=366975

The "zodiac/metal flake" example really stands out.

Hope this helps.

I sent a series of instructions to imperfection on how to do.

Not hard once you know how. Takes time and care.

Fuzz

Wizard429 wrote:

I sent a series of instructions to imperfection on how to do.

Not hard once you know how. Takes time and care.

Fuzz

Yep here they are.



Looks easy - but I would suggest you try somke dummy panels in a real cheap material before you try.

You have to decide how many buttons within a defined area.

You glue your foam on a backing board.

you do a grid on foam where you want your buttons

You get a deep 1" hole saw and you then cut thru the foam - and the tip of the drill bit thru the board. Do not cut all the way thru.

Your fabric - flip it over to the underside and so the same grid double size. The ratio of the material grid to foam grid comes doen to thickness of your foam. My foam from memory was about 3". But I did this over 25 years ago.

You get buttons made with two prongs on the back - buttons covered in same fabric.

You push the button thru the fabric where you have made your mark and down the hole in the foam.

You push it all the way to the bottom, on the back of the board, you then flatten the prongs. when you do them all - run a staple gun to lock the prongs.

You progressivley fold the fabric as it naturally creates a pleat - make sure you get the fabric running the right way.

try on dummy panely and differ the fabric grid until you get the look you are after.

the edge of the board - you ensure your folds continue over the adge - staple gun down.

hope of some help. I did all my trim. Zodiac is progessively adding my photos. Have a look at the interior when it gets posted.

Fuzz - The Wizard

You then push thru the fabric where you have marked

Will definitely take those tips on board, especially re the diamond pattern sizing differences between the material and backing board.

There's quite a few how-to videos on youtube as well

have fun

Simo