Textured material for my CP

[Gradius]

I'm planing on building a new CP and I'd like the surface of it to have the same black and slightly rough textured material you can see in some big speaker boxes. Is that vynil, formica...? Do you know the name of it and if it's easy to work with (cutting, drilling, gluing, etc)

[RayB]

What you want is this:

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&DID=7&Partnumber=260-018

I covered the whole front of my cab with it and the results are amazing. You just need a sharp exacto knife and metal ruler for the best results.

[miles2912]

That is a great idea.  I might have to rethink my CP. 

Don

[walls83]

I covered my complete cab in it.  I used the Textured fro the CP and I used the wood grain for the rest of my cab.  Its good stuff.

[Ninten-doh]

Walls, I was planning to use the wood grain on my cab too, but it didn't seem like the strips were wide enough to cover either the left or right side of the cab.  How did you handle this?  Do you just have seams where you used two strips?

[unclet]

Here is what HappContols have ..... kind of expensive but they do have sales every now and again which are like 50% off:

http://www.happcontrols.com/vending/acesor/49057200.htm

I used the Black pica vinyl and it looks great.   

Most come with 40" widths, however , the black pica comes in 49" width.

 ....no seams....

[walls83]

Walls, I was planning to use the wood grain on my cab too, but it didn't seem like the strips were wide enough to cover either the left or right side of the cab.  How did you handle this?  Do you just have seams where you used two strips?

What I did was just make sure that the seams were flush.  You can match up the textures just like wallpaper.   Once its done you will never even know what the pieces werent wide enough to cover the sides.   If I look at mine I cant see where I had the seam and I was the one that installed it.

So just match up the textures and youll be good to go.

One of the the things I did in preping the wood was put a coat of primer paint down first.  I havent had any pealing yet and that was over 2 years ago when I put mine up.   I would show you some pics but I dont have a camera. 

[pointdablame]

I've used the Happ black pica vinyl and the PartsExpress vinyl in the past.  They are both really nice.  I like the texture on the Happ vinyl slightly better, but I'd only buy it again during one of their sales.

Both of them look really nice on cabs and CPs.  You won't go wrong with either of them.

[Ninten-doh]

Walls, thanks for the feedback on the seams.  Pics would have been great, but I understand.

Now to figure out how I'm doing the top part of the CP.  Just vinyl on the top part?  Do I run it from the top and down the front?  Decisions, decisions.  And my job is really annoying because it keeps getting in the way of research on my cab.   

[pointdablame]

For seams in the vinyl, the best thing to do is overlap the 2 pieces by an inch or so.  Then take a metal ruler and a sharp knife and slice right down the middle of the overlap.  You can then peel off the 2 cut pieces and the seam will line up perfectly.

Someone on here had pics about how to do it before, but I forget who it was.  I've used the technique though and it works really well.