[Rhodes22-list] Sound cushion advice?

[Hank]

Ron,

3/8" plywood will make them kinda heavy, might want to go down to 1/4".  The
best thing to use to cut the foam is an electric knife like you use to carve
a turkey.  Sounds funny, but that's what the pros use and you can really
shape and sculpt the foam however you want with it.  I used it to build some
for my boat and it worked well.  Picked up some outdoor fabric at Joanns and
they came out nice.

Regards,

Hank

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Ron Kaye <ronkaye343 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good Rhodies,
>
> Lisa and I are still newbies and have sailed our Rhodes very little to
> date.  We are thinking that surely this subject has come up and many of you
> have done this.  In futzing around in the cockpit we found that the
> cushions
> were in some degree of being worn out - the luan backerboard seems to have
> collected some condensation or other source of water in the past and it is
> failing (though it was dry at the time), the staples are corroding, fabric
> coming loose to the touch.  Anyway, we need to replace those cushions.
>
> Now the basic idea is get some suitable wood, tear the others down and use
> the surviving pieces as a template to cut new backers.  Get some foam, cut
> or cut it ourselves (if that is doable).  Get fabric and staple it back
> down.  Have a beer.
>
> I have a compressor and a staple gun so I think I can manage thre stapling.
> Also I have a jigsaw and circular saws and the ability and patience (I
> hope)
> to cut the plywood.
>
> We aren't gong to match anything but simply redo all the cushions.
>
> I'm thinking 3/8" marine grade plywood for the backers?
>
> We are open to suggestions for the best kind of fabric, and
>
> Most of all what kind of foam, how dense, how thick, a reaosnable source
> and
> do they cut it or can I cut it somehow (utility knife)?
>
> Now it might be that it is simply not worth it, that the Acme Co can do it
> so reasonably and so well that it doesn't make sense to bother.  My hunch
> is
> that services who do this whole job would be quite expensive.
>
>  ("Nautisaurus" purchased Sept '10, sailed twice, 85 hull, refurbed in 2005
> and pretty much refurbed again in 2010 through multiple work-orders to
> Stan. On blocks now on the middle Potomac, MD.)
>
> Thanks for any groovy advise on this project.
>
> --
> Ron & Lisa
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