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    How to make carpeted panel with a pin stripe

    Hello all. I'd like to make a panel that looks like this to cover the false floor in my next build:

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    The panel will be made of 3/4" MDF. It will be wrapped in black and blue automotive carpets. My question is how to make this pin stripe. I picture cutting a small channel in the MDF length wise between the colors using a router or table saw. I would glue the black carpet down, stuff the carpet edges into the routed groove, then run a knife inside the groove to trim the carpet. I could then lay the blue down (slightly overlapping the black) and do the same thing.

    Does this make sense?

    Do you have any comments or better ideas?

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    Re: How to make carpeted panel with a pin stripe

    Quote Originally Posted by Ge0 View Post
    Hello all. I'd like to make a panel that looks like this to cover the false floor in my next build:

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    The panel will be made of 3/4" MDF. It will be wrapped in black and blue automotive carpets. My question is how to make this pin stripe. I picture cutting a small channel in the MDF length wise between the colors using a router or table saw. I would glue the black carpet down, stuff the carpet edges into the routed groove, then run a knife inside the groove to trim the carpet. I could then lay the blue down (slightly overlapping the black) and do the same thing.

    Does this make sense?

    Do you have any comments or better ideas?

    Ge0
    Or router a channel in the mdf, then use a thin strip of aluminum to wrap with the blue and glue it down into the channel. This would give you a really clean look, imo.
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    Re: How to make carpeted panel with a pin stripe

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidRam View Post
    Or router a channel in the mdf, then use a thin strip of aluminum to wrap with the blue and glue it down into the channel. This would give you a really clean look, imo.
    I'm a little slow. Trying to picture what I should do with the aluminum. Do you have an example in mind?

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    Re: How to make carpeted panel with a pin stripe

    Do you mean something like this?
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    That would look slick.

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    Re: How to make carpeted panel with a pin stripe

    Quote Originally Posted by Ge0 View Post
    I'm a little slow. Trying to picture what I should do with the aluminum. Do you have an example in mind?

    Ge0
    No worries. So router a channel



    Strip of aluminum wrapped in the blue material

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    Re: How to make carpeted panel with a pin stripe

    Quote Originally Posted by Ge0 View Post
    Do you mean something like this?

    That would look slick.

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    That would be cool too, using an aluminum channel to separate the materials...

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    Re: How to make carpeted panel with a pin stripe

    What do y'all use for color matched interior vinyl and carpet? My "go too" source closed indefinitely due to heavy COVID-19 outbreak in my region. He was not an essential business...

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    Re: How to make carpeted panel with a pin stripe

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    What do y'all use for color matched interior vinyl and carpet? My "go too" source closed indefinitely due to heavy COVID-19 outbreak in my region. He was not an essential business...

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    https://www.albrightssupply.com/

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    Re: How to make carpeted panel with a pin stripe

    Albright's is about a mile from my work and they have so many materials.

    If somehow you get that thin aluminum piece anodized blue, that would be cool.

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    Re: How to make carpeted panel with a pin stripe

    That method would work or depending on the materials you want to use you could simply run the blade of a table saw down both sides of the stripe at about 1/4" deep and tuck the trunk mat and whatever material you are using for the blue in each channel. You could also run a channel around the edge of the piece and have a panel with no seams that show on either side.
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