Tolex on an enclosure?

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Hi, all. It's a long story, but I'm thinking of trying to apply tolex to an enclosure. Anybody here have any experience with applying tolex to a metal surface of any kind? I'm trying to figure out if I would just sand it down, or use etch primer, or whatever.

The utter lack of any information on this idea is making me believe it's a bad one, and that I shouldn't pursue it, but I figure I'd ask in case it can be done by a relative noob like myself.

Thanks!

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John Lyons (a member here) has done numerous pedals with tweed grill cloth wrapping the enclosure, I think he just used contact cement. The real challenge is getting the corners. But with tolex, you may have an additional concern in that the contact cement can't soak through like it can with tweed. My guess is that once the cement became tacky, this made it a lot easier to smooth down corners than it would be for tolex.

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