(02-29-2012, 04:51 AM)MattNH Wrote: ''In my opinion the more you stretch the lace front the worse the accordian or ripple effect becomes....'' ''I wish I knew what causes this but I simply dont buy the fact its acceptable and you can imagine how much more frustrating it is when this happens on a custom piece !!!!!''

Hope you don't mind me quoting you but you answered your own question in your post! It's exactly as I answered in my post too. For those that wear lace, don't continually stretch it to fit-lace in it's nature has elasticity, but like a good pair of used underwear, it'll eventually get baggy! Regards

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MattNH,

We are, I think, both coming to the same conclusions and you are right you should not have to stretch your lace, I guess I was not not making myself clear enough......Tapehead posted on here that by starting the attachment in front then pulling on sides to try an eliminate ripples and in my experience it just wont work !!!!

As to your sentence of lace will get baggy even if not stretched over the months of wearing, all I can say is I have owned stock and custom pieces that have lasted anywhere from 6 months to 1 year and have never had to worry about ripples down the road because my lace was losing its ability to hold its shape,If anything it would tend to start fraying and shedding like mad if nothing else !!! lol

The point I am trying to make is if you have a ripple issue with your unit from the very beginning that no matter what you try to do 9 times out of 10 it just wont work, I have even taken one piece and tried cutting a slit at the temple areas one time thinking by doing that it would allow the piece at the front to follow contour of my forehead better thinking that might resolve the issue....but no dice, its like something out of the devils handbook of let me play games with your mind.