I'm in the progress of building a desk with a roll top tambour door feature and I purchased a tambour bit set from Eagle America. I was very happy with the results. Now I'm doing a final sanding on each segment before I assemble together. The bit set I purchased advertised that I can either use the canvas backing or the cable system. After seeing several videos about using canvas, I can see how that would work. My preferred method is to use cable.
My question is:
1. How much tension should I use to make sure that it is still flexible to follow the track and not too loose to gap?
2. Also, has anyone done both methods and what kind of results did you have? Did you prefer one over the other?
Here is a blog of mine where I share some pictures. FYI, the tambour you see is not connected together. http://bumpaswoodcreations.blogspot.com/