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Does anyone have any experience applying a matching upholstery border to the edge of the cockpit and if so, how is it done?

In the pics below are a couple of examples of what I mean; one green matching the seat upholstery and the other in black?

Is this hard to do?

you can buy the welt and hidem trim from a place like http://www.sailrite.com/ or make your own like i did. but overall pretty straight forward

staple your welt trim around cockpit edge down the width of your crashpad rubber

staple crashpad cover material down tight to welt

glue on crashpad rubber.

make or buy hidem trim. i made a jig to sew it myself

bring crashpad trim tight around crashpad rubber and staple to deck and trim.

staple hidem trim over your crashpad edge hiding the raw edge and staples.

-Billy

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Yah... What Billy said.

All I will add is a few of my "amateur learnings"....

1) you can use a hair dryer to soften the vinyl so that it forms a wrinkle-free stretch around the corners.

2) don't do what I did first time, and make the radius too small on the the corners. That makes it impossible to do a wrinkle-free wrap.

3) I only learned about 2) because I was working some practice pieces. Luckily I did that before my final deck was finished.

4) there are nickel-plated end caps for your hidem strip that may come in handy.




(I did my crash pad as a "wrap" around the deck overhang, versus against a vertical carling)

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Thanks fellows, that was very helpful. Beautiful work to.

I'm clear on all the steps (including addressing potential wrinkles) right up until it comes to stapling the hidem trim over the crashpad edge to hide the raw edge and staples. How exactly do you make the staples disappear?

You'd also need to be using stainless steel staples I imagine. Are these hard to come by?

Oh and one more thing, Bruce, where do the nickel plate end caps go?

Richard

Richard- the nose of the gun goes in the material under the flaps of the hidem and then the flaps cover the staple. yes SS or Monel staples. the caps Bruce shows above, fit on the raw ends of the hidem if you end at the cockpit/seat junction. if you go all the way around the cockpit with trim, a 1" band of your material made by folding over the raw edges of a 2" strip is used to cover the end seam. they also have a metal band that is used over the hidem instead of the cap.
-Billy

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I totally get the whole process now. Thank you both so much. I think I can do this. It's a really slick look to most boats.

Also, check out Allan Fullerton's Zip in NZ:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNVamObl ... re=related

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Thanks Jeff. That was an interesting method of applying upholstery to the cockpit edge. I'm not sure about the practicality of having it removable as you bounce along choppy waters, but I suppose you could fix the upholstered wooden frame to the deck or carling somehow. The boat is definitely nicely finished though.

Thanks again for pointing it out. I take it you're staying with the traditional look on "Kicked"?

I really like the look of the padding. I'm going to do a little work to her this winter and that is on the list of things to consider. We don't have a sewing machine of any sort in our house, so I would have to take her back to my upholsterer.

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