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I use a similar method mentioned by Paul LeMasters. I keep all the pieces under tension with double sided tape. I build the "skeleton" of the kite first, all of the initial pieces are hot cut and once the skeleton is completed, the double sided tape does all the work, allowing me to simply place more fabric while keeping everything neatly flat and then use curved sharp scissors to cut along the lines of the double sided tape, I get beautiful clean cuts that look like they were laser cut but it requires very sharp scissors. A few pictures of my recent build bellow illustrates the beautiful results!

Had some sweet flights on my local dock today... Man, what a sweet ride. 🤘🤘 Djinn ST, 30’x50# lines. == https://www.facebook.com/barresij/videos/10218484860296945/ == https://www.facebook.com/barresij/videos/10218485508873159/ == https://www.facebook.com/barresij/videos/10218486011725730/

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@mrfaosfx Beautiful work.. I use several similar techniques on my full sails and diamond constructions. The meshes are usually basically square and present little issues.. Making a diamond shaped mesh however gives me a much higher skew angle when not under tension .. I'm mitigating by pinning down to a surface and blue taping much as you described. Since I'm dealing with already hemmed edges for the strips, hot cutting and back cutting not very practical for my particular application.. As much as I'd love to buy in, no shortcuts for this kite. I found a workable solution. Seam tape will only be used for the panel inserts and final assembly.

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A few of us DC Misfits got our hands on a custom Djinn this weekend. Per usual the wind was, well, non existent. And per usual, these guys make it look easy.