Well, I went down to JoAnn's and bought some Linen. Last night I used
TearMender to bond it to the back of some Dr. Evil.

The process is simply. I apply a liberal amount of TearMender to the back of
the rubber, lay the rubber onto a sheet of linen that is sitting on a piece of
glass, and then roller the sandwich out smoothly. I let that dry for an hour or
so and then peeled the sandwich off of the glass. I applied a second coat of
TearMender to the linen, making sure that the linen would be fully saturated
with this second coat. I rollered it back onto the glass and let it set
overnight.

The rubber was .055" thick when I started and measured .07" after the linen was
added.

I glued the linen backed Dr Evil onto a blade this morning and will test it out
tonight. I tried using very coarse sandpaper to texture the pips, but it didn't
seem to do much other than remove a small amount of material from the rim/edge
of the pips tops.

On a further note, I looked at a sheet of Gambler Peackeeper OX and noticed that
the pips tops of this rubber are textured. I'm in the process of bonding some
linen to this sheet right now.

Jay Turberville
www.jayandwanda.com