(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

Hope you don't mind me quoting either. The very thing wearers do (for the most part) to combat the ripples is stretch the front during attachment - sounds logical, I did it. But that single handedly causes more ripples, causes fraying and halves the life/wearability of your piece. No difference, stock or custom. The same lace is used.

Gents even though some darts exist, the base on lace is pretty flat or whatever curvature is extremely minimal and not enough unless you have a head shaped like Herman Munster.

The only way to handle the ripples long term is to have a curved base. The factories never have really grasped this even on custom pieces. The existing darting on new pieces all but goes when you trim the excess lace.

I started doing this http://www.forum.toplace.com/showthread....4#pid34984 a year ago and have never had ripples and my fronts not hardly fray.