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I am currently making a bible cover and decided the mexican round would look very nice on it and it definately does. I've used this lacing method before but it's been a while and for some reason I cannot get the corner right for the life of me! I have the book from tandy that gives you some instructions and also a tutorial I printed off the internet but after 4 hours of beating my head against the wall lastnight I've realized I need some help. The bible cover carving turned out very nice and I really dont want to ruin the project with a crappy lacing job. If anyone can help me with my dilema I'd really appreciate it!

Thank you for any help,

Russ

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Hi Russ, can you post a pic of your corner so we can see your problem. Thanks Dennis from Durango

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Dennis, Here are the pictures. I'm Russ' wife I usually don't do posts to this site so I hope this works and they're not HUGE files, if so I"m very sorry and I'll have him fix it when he gets home.

Tina, thank you for the website, that's the one he was using lastnight and couldn't get his project to match the diagrams they had. Normally that site is great and helps him a ton but for some reason he's just not getting it this time.

Thank you both very much for your help, I don't think my wall can handle much more head banging.

Misty

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OK, here is a smaller file size to see. Typical round braid. I understand the 4 times in the corner, and 3 times on either side, but the lace just doesn't lay right or something. It just doesn't look right. Any tips would be GREAT

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OK, here is a smaller file size to see. Typical round braid. I understand the 4 times in the corner, and 3 times on either side, but the lace just doesn't lay right or something. It just doesn't look right. Any tips would be GREAT

Russ, lacing a sharp corner I will go through the first hole twice and corner hole once and the next hole after the corner hole twice. this leaves no gaps. On Mexican round I also cut my lace a size smaller so it won't bulk up. hope this helps Dennis

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I always go through the 3 holes in a corner twice, once done I use a mallet to flatten it all out and manipulate the corners by bending, twisting etc, then pound flat again. seems to work good for me.

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Thanks for the suggestions.....I'm thinkin the corner is too tight so I'm just gonna wing it and see what happens....I'll post pics later so you can check it out if your interrested

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