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I'm working on a project to create a large (but lightweight) painted oval structure that will hang over my dining table, with three pendant lamps that will hang below it. I plan to cut an oval 48 x 60 inches from very thin plywood glued to stiff insulation foam, and around the edges I want to glue paintable edgebanding or something similar. But I'm having trouble finding a source for four- to six-inch wide edgebanding. Frama-Tech makes it, but only sells it in 250-foot rolls. Any ideas where I could get 200 inches of six-inch-wide edgebanding?

mrdowntown wrote:I'm working on a project to create a large (but lightweight) painted oval structure that will hang over my dining table, with three pendant lamps that will hang below it. I plan to cut an oval 48 x 60 inches from very thin plywood glued to stiff insulation foam, and around the edges I want to glue paintable edgebanding or something similar. But I'm having trouble finding a source for four- to six-inch wide edgebanding. Frama-Tech makes it, but only sells it in 250-foot rolls. Any ideas where I could get 200 inches of six-inch-wide edgebanding?

Hi mrdowntown,

Welcome to these forums! I could knot find a source that will sell partial rolls. As I see it, you really only have two choices: 1) Use sheet veneer, or 2) Find a company that uses this edge banding and purchase a small amount from them.

BTW, which town are you down in?

I'm in downtown Chicago. I don't know where to start trying to find a place that regularly uses 6-inch edgebanding, since obviously it's not that common.