Help with pistripe.

[gpz900]

Can anyone tell me what the technique for applying this pinstripe stuff is? I mean, how do you get it to go around corners without folding it over on itself. It's fine if you just want straight edges, you can cut it and then start a
new line, but I want it to curve. Sorry if my photo doesn't really show it very well.




Thanks in advance.

Al.

[Cammo]

There's a limit to how tight it will curve around without lifting, I guess different brands will behave differently also.

I ended up cutting mine, but yeah, it looks great rounded.

[gpz900]

Just realised I mistyped pinstripe as "pistripe".

Very apt, given my shoddy effort.

[dogmatic69]

You can make the vinyl go round tight bends with a bit of heat, use a heat gun or your mrs hair dryer (when she is out )

Not to much heat though, just enough for it to soften up. Then you just push it down and guide it round the bend.

[spud]

you want to treat it like vinyl , get a bucket of hot /loop warm water and let the pin stripe soap in the hot water for a couple of mins then apply it to the suface you are working on , line it up as much as poss then use a hair dryer to heat the pin stripe up , then very carefully stretch the pin strip only a little to the line you are working on while keeping it warm with the hair dryer , when you have done leave it for 24 hours as you can get bubbles apare afterwards and it can shink back a little if you have over stretched the vinyl/pin stripe , just do a little at a time when puting pin striping on a curve and if you can do a couple of practise runs on a bit of wood or a flat suface to get the hang of doing curves as smaller the curve the harder it gets to do

sam

[gpz900]

Ok, couple of good suggestions there.

Thanks chaps.