Jawa – New Hood

A Simple Task…

Just need to make it bigger…

After measuring the length needed for the new hood, I just placed the old hood on top and cut out a slightly bigger piece…

I then pinned up the area that will be the front opening of the hood. The black material is the lining, and I’m leaving a small “channel” of fabric to be able to slip the piece of coax cable into…

The front of the hood, completely sewn, with the liner in place. Also, located the center point of the hood to know where to sewn in the piece of velcro…

The velcro sewn in place…

A suggestion on some Youtube videos is to place a piece of craft foam in the top of the hood to keep if from sagging. Here, I’ve marked the center point with a pin…

And here, I’ve marked the center point of the hood with a pin…

After spraying some adhesive onto the foam, I aligned the pins and stuck it to the black liner cloth…

I then used HeatnBond to attached the liner cloth to the main hood…

Here’s the piece of coax cable that will go in the front of the hood opening…

Here’s the hood with the piece of coax cable inserted…

Next, I need two strips of cloth to make the hood ties. I ran a stitch about one quarter of an inch along all of the raw edges to keep the fraying at bay…

Then, the cloth strips were attached to each side of the hood…

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