By the way, I did two Beovision 3 32" frets last time for a friend of mine and it has been succesfull. And you know what, he gave me ordinary fabric for clothing which almost didn't had any stretch in it!
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Re-Covering the material on beolab 8000 frets
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Too much stretch mages it hard to shrink it into internal corners. I've always found the bv3 frets to be very rewarding. The end result is easier to achieve than it should be if that makes sense. The 8000s have many challenges. The frame can flex. The top of the fret is not that easy. With the thin cloth it's important to get the same tension down the fret or in a certain light the back sides of the frets look like they gave light patches where the cloth been slightly over stretched. The biggest secret/tip I can give after doing frets in general is to always run the grain of the cloth across the shortest distance of the fret. As its the least stretchy in that direction and you do not have to worry about a wonky grain line down the long side of the fret and lets face it nobody likes a wonky grain line !!!!
The 8000s have many challenges. The frame can flex. The top of the fret is not that easy. With the thin cloth it's important to get the same tension down the fret or in a certain light the back sides of the frets look like they gave light patches where the cloth been slightly over stretched.
That makes sense, still I'm gonna give it a try whenever I get them. Thanks mate!
I have eight pairs to do if you want to pop round!!!Cheers,Darren.
You must be kidding? Got other priorities then doing Beolabs 8000's...
I will show the results whenever I did those!
Yep only kidding. Good luck with the frets!
Thanks!
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