Post #794555 by Prikli Pear on Thu, Apr 18, 2019 9:11 AM

Thank you, littlegiles! And Johnny, too! The white's not urgent. I've thought about gluing tapa on, or using vinyl paint on it, etc. I'm hesitant to use actual barkcloth as it's outdoors and even the reflected UV is pretty brutal. If I'm investing in barkcloth, I'd want it for the inside (and my track record with containing spray adhesive isn't the greatest). I don't want to botch it and I don't want to rush it. I'm going to let my subconscious chew on it for a while as I move on to other projects in the Lagoon (like, finishing out that final 15 feet so I can move the booth into its permanent position). That stripe might be the very last thing I come back to. Time will tell, to coin a phrase.

Skip, you know it. And I would do the re-upholstery work myself (madness) but even so, the outdoor tapa-print fabric (or whatever I eventually decided on) I'd need to recover the booth would cost more than the booth did. When I have everything taken apart, I can see the different layers of vinyl from previous re-upholstery, since it looks like they didn't take the old stuff off (one incarnation of this booth was red). Not something I look forward to, but something I can accomplish myself with a lot of time and a lot more cursing.

And yes, that Dremel cutting disk works well on the tambour. I've used it multiple times on sections I've already mounted to the wall but need to cut out detailed areas for light switches, etc. I've broken an alarming number of them when trying to cut through the rolled tambour, though. For whatever reason, they keep binding no matter how I approach the cut. Just simpler and quicker to use that fine-toothed saw.