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Old 11-14-2006, 02:47 PM   #3
Michele Rushworth Michele Rushworth is offline
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I use Claessens oil primed 13 double-primed linen and I love it. A post by Garth Herrick last year suggested a stretching method to eliminate the ripples along the edges that has worked well for me.

I'll see if I can summarize it. I stretched up a big canvas yesterday and it worked fine.

1. Staple the middle of each side, as you normally would, pulling tightly.

2. Here's the important part: go to the corners of the short sides and put a temporary staple in at the end of each short stretcher bar, also pulling tightly.

3. Then staple the remainder of the canvas as you normally would, putting one or two staples in moving from the center of each side towards the corners, working opposite sides while pulling tightly.

I used to have lots of rippling, especially in the center of the long sides. Not a problem any more! (Thanks again, Garth!)
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