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TWENTY-TWO
Dressing Up a Vinyl Fender
There’s no question about it: Vinyl fenders are better than their predecessors,
which were typically canvas sleeves filled with cork or kapok. Vinyl stays clean.
It’s light and strong. Its one drawback is aesthetic: Vinyl fenders shout, “I’m
plastic!”
The method I’ve laid out below disguises the “plastic-ness” of vinyl fenders
with a cotton duck cover and further dresses them with a neatly knotted and
spliced lanyard. (The instructions are for Taylor’s “Big B.”)
