Re: Re-upholstering? ? ?

[steve <sderby@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

John,
I am an upholsterer. In my humble opinion, unless you want something 
radically different, or go to Tijuana for a mexi job, very few, if any, 
upholsterers will be able to do it cheaper than say legendary or some other 
aftermarket seat company. It is very time consuming to make patterns, buy 
material and build them. If you want to do yourself, make sure you use your 
old set as a pattern, cut every piece on the seams with a razor blade, I 
then use an old iron to iron out the old seats, lay them on the new vinyl, 
cut out and sew together exactly the same. You will need a welting foot to 
make welts etc. and an industrial machine to sew.Also my 2 cents is always 
get new foam if possible, you will have a tighter fitting cover that will 
fill out the corners and believe me you won't believe the different between 
that and old dead 40 year old foam.
For the best bang for your buck, buy the kit and re and re. You can do that 
yourself quite easily and save the labour and have a factory looking job 
very easily.
cheers
Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Pettitt" <john.pettitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 9:29 AM
Subject: Re-upholstering? ? ?


> Quick question.  Give me all your various thoughts on the matter.
>
> I am wanting to re-upholster the seats in my '65 Coronet.
>
> 1) Is this something that I could learn to do?
>
> 2) If I did it myself, is it something I would be able to do , where I 
> would be pleased with the end product?
>
> 3) Are there any good instruction books, or web-sites on the topic?
>
> 4)  Would I be better off paying someone to do it?
>
>
> Thanks for all your responses.
>
> John
>
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