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Old 01-25-2014, 10:54 PM
jacm81 jacm81 is offline
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Default Wooden Guitar Case Repair

The vinyl covering on the outside of my Martin case is starting to wear through in a few spots. Any suggestions for what to patch this with before it gets worse? I was thinking about some liquid electrical tape.



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Old 01-26-2014, 08:02 AM
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First thing a Canadian might say is, "Head on over to Canadian Tire and pick up some duck-tape!"

You can do that, but it sometimes begins to leave a sticky mess.

I have sometimes used titebond 3 (waterproof) or epoxy to seal roughed off spots of the vinyl.
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Old 01-30-2014, 07:33 AM
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Eastwood Auto Restoration Supplies used to sell a vinyl repair kit. It was a liquid vinyl in a bottle with a small brush, a surface prep and a texture overlay.

I don't know if they are still around but Google will. Good luck!
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Old 01-30-2014, 06:52 PM
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A Permatex vinyl repair kit may work too. Auto parts stores have them. You apply the caulk like stuff to the area and place a pebble grain sample on it from the kit. A heated iron heats up the little disk on a dowl and you rub that one the back of the fabric. It transfers heat and kind of cures the stuff and puts a pebble grain texture into it. It actually works not bad on vinyl. I fixed a motorcycle seat this way. It will most likely be somewhat semi-gloss as I recall but then its only been 1986 since I used it!!!
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Old 02-09-2014, 08:18 PM
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The liquid electical tape seemed to work pretty good. Blends in at least. We'll see how it holds up.

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Old 05-12-2015, 04:21 AM
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The liquid electrical tape worked well, but it did come off eventually. Now I just used some super glue and cover it up with black enamel paint. Doesn't blend in quite as well, but it's hardly noticeable and it'll last forever.
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Old 05-12-2015, 08:36 PM
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I have also used ABS glue which is cheap and black for other things and bet it would work well for this...
What you did is a nice looking repair !
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